Ideas for Wedding Gifts for Parents
- Gifts for the parents can be sentimental to help your family get used to the new dynamic. Frame your family tree or give a book that tells about your family name and history. You may be able to find a decorative accessory in the form of a tree with photo frames hanging off each branch. Place pictures of the bride, groom, parents and siblings in the tree for a custom memento. Order a small wedding album from the photographer that you can give to each set of parents after the wedding.
Your parents can wear the gifts on the day of the wedding and treasure the mementos for years to come. Give jewelry to both your parents, such as cufflinks, brooches, necklaces or rings, that they can wear to the ceremony. Create personalized jewelry by putting a childhood or engagement picture in a locket. A present for your parents can be as simple as wrapping up a nice handkerchief to dry tears at the wedding. - The parents of the bride and groom might need to relax after all the stress of paying for and hosting a wedding. Give your parents a weekend away at a bed and breakfast or a gift certificate to a spa. Offer them a visit to your new home or plan a future trip so that your parents still get to spend time with you.
- Giving gifts to your parents can be part of the ceremony. The gifts don't have to be expensive. Buy extra roses from the florist. The officiant can work the rose ceremony into the wedding by acknowledging the work your parents have done in your lives. The bride and groom then give their respective parents a rose in appreciation. Another version can take place during the walk down the aisle. The florist can arrange two single roses into the bouquet that the bride can take from her flowers on her way down the aisle to acknowledge the mothers of the bride and groom.
A wedding toast is an inexpensive but meaningful gift. Give your parents a framed copy of what you said at the wedding so that your family can treasure your words for years to come.
