I am starting to get together gift ideas for my 5 bridesmaids. My mother and their mothers all love idea, but I am hoping for an outside opinion, just in case they are just agreeing with me to agree.
I have been friends with all of them since high school (one is my soon to be sister-in-law). I have pictures dating all the way back to all those years. I was thinking of custom made blankets. For my maid of honor and other friend, they are cousins, I am stealthing it with their mothers to get a nicer picture of the three of us together to make into a custom blanket for each and getting it framed for their mothers. For the other three I am using other pictures of us together from high school.
Thoughts on this one? For one girl I have two pictures I can't decide on, one is of just the two of us the day of prom at our teachers house holding lambs out in the field, its adorable, and the other is from the FFA National Convention but it is of our entire group plus our teacher posed together just after we all walked off stage from receiving our American Degrees, an amazing/exciting achievement for us. I'm leaning toward the group photo for the blanket and doing something else with the other one for her birthday.
So since the blankets are all the same general idea, along with the blanket I plan to get something else to go with the blanket. For example I competed in FFA events with one girl so I plan to get something from the FFA official store for her. For my maid of honor she loves oddly shaped glasses so I found a custom glass maker to make her a custom hurricane glass and if I can get the picture off her phone getting it etched with her parrots face. For soon-to-be-sister something art related, I'm just on sure what yet (she is an art major). For the cousin, pajama pants and something Sims3 related. For my other friend something from my cousin that makes reliquary items.
So is all that appropriate? None of the gifts are wedding related but even though all the blankets are similar I am adding another smaller gift. Unless someone has an idea for a picture related gift that is not blanket.
(For the wedding I bought us all matching wristlets that I am going to fill with emergency kit items and I am paying for their hotel rooms, I am going to give them the wristlet before their actual gifts so its not associated with the gifts).
Thank You