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Parent gifts- Ideas please?

kelseymwkelseymw
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I want to give my parents something because they have graciously paid for the wedding, and FI's parents are paying for the rehearsal dinner. I had handkercheifs handmade and embroidered for the moms because they are big cryers (ha!) but other than that I am not sure what I should get them. What are appropriate gifts to say thank you for such a thing?

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Re: Parent gifts- Ideas please?

  • lasaggie08lasaggie08 member
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    edited December 2011
    We are buying each of our parents a wedding album of wedding photos from the photographer. My aunt got one from her daughter and still keeps it on the coffee table to this day (20 years later).

    I also thought about getting them a really nice waterford vase or picture frame. Those are a little bit pricey but definitely less than giving a wedding album.


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  • kelseymwkelseymw
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    edited December 2011
    I was thinking about wedding albums. I didn't know if that would be too self-indulgent to give them a bunch of pictures of us, haha.
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  • lasaggie08lasaggie08 member
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    edited December 2011
    I am kind of the same way but lets be honest, they want to show everyone they know pictures of your big day. I think its a great gift. They can even pick the photos they want in their album so each one is unique.
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  • ChrisChelsea10/08ChrisChelsea10/08 member
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    edited December 2011
    i'm making scrapbooks for them with pictures of us growing up. like for my mom there pictures of me and for his mom pictures of him and then as we grew and when we got together, then the wedding pictures. it should cost me $30 each-paper and scrapbook with 100 pages. hobby lobby discounts off of there website.
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  • crystalgailcrystalgail
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    edited December 2011
    I did the handkerchiefs and the albums, too.  My parents liked them, but what they REALLY liked was the tickets I got them to a Cirque de Soleil show.  They live in Vegas, so it was easy to find a show.  My in-laws live in Dallas so we got them a gift certificate to their favorite restaurant and a gift certificate to their favorite theater.  
    After all of the money and time they spent on us, we thought they deserved a nice night out.  :)
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