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Parents Gifts from Bride & Groom

I have about 24 hours and still no gifts for FI and I to give our parents. We've got his parents, my dad and step-mom and my mom to buy for. Looking for ideas for something quick/easy, but, you know thoughtful (heh)! What did you do? Thanks!

Re: Parents Gifts from Bride & Groom

  • We didn't have a lot of money, so we gave our parents Crate & Barrel Photo Coasters with our engagement photos inside.  After the wedding we made prints of the family photos from the wedding photog so that they could switch them out if they wanted to.
  • how exciting - 24 hours!!

    For both of our parents, we did a really nice card and DH and I both wrote something in it.  Then we included a note that said we would be purchasing a photo album for them after the wedding - with photos of their choice.

    After we got photos back, I had them go through them and pick their top 100 that they would want in their album and created a great one on mypublisher.com

    And now MIL is re-decorating her house and has been talking about wanting a photo wall of her family.  There were so many great shots of her and her kids, grandma, and all the rest I'm going to have a few printed and framed for mothers day. 

    Not too original - but we had a hard time with that too... so it's the route we went with. 

    Other ideas:  watch, perfume, locket, earrings, necklace, tickets to a game or show, a night at a bed and breakfast in fredricksburg, a massage at a local spa, facials...

    hope that helps.

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    how exciting - 24 hours!!

    For both of our parents, we did a really nice card and DH and I both wrote something in it.  Then we included a note that said we would be purchasing a photo album for them after the wedding - with photos of their choice.

     Love this! Plus it means I don't have to shop for it today. Thanks! 

  • imageThisGirlInAustin:
    imageshanwalk2:

    how exciting - 24 hours!!

    For both of our parents, we did a really nice card and DH and I both wrote something in it.  Then we included a note that said we would be purchasing a photo album for them after the wedding - with photos of their choice.

     Love this! Plus it means I don't have to shop for it today. Thanks! 

    exactly!  We did our cards as we were getting dressed for the rehearsal dinner. Wink

  • We did cards that told them we would be getting them digital photo frames full of our wedding pictures once we got them back.  went over pretty well and all of them still use them today!
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  • We framed an 8x10 pic from our engagement session.
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  • we gave our parents each dvd's of "the in-laws".
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  • imageshanwalk2:

    how exciting - 24 hours!!

    For both of our parents, we did a really nice card and DH and I both wrote something in it.  Then we included a note that said we would be purchasing a photo album for them after the wedding


     

    Pretty much this exactly, except I picked the pictures myself.

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  • We did cards and then after the wedding, when we got all our pictures back, we loaded them onto a digital photo frame for both sets of parents. They were so wrapped up in the day that they forgot to take pictures themselves so they were SO HAPPY to get them. The frames we got for them also play music so we loaded it up with the songs played at the wedding and reception. SO FUN!!
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