Parent Gifts

stonepondbabe Posted: Sep 05, 2007 10:39 AM

Parent Gifts

Even though FH & I are paying for this all ourselves, I want to get our parents something as a gesture other than the albums they are getting after the wedding.
Any ideas, what have you gotten your parents?

HeatherRose Posted: Sep 05, 2007 10:39 AM

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I feel the same way, excpet his parents are paying for the rehersial dinner, and flowers..

stonepondbabe Posted: Sep 05, 2007 08:32 PM

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No ideas anyone? Parents Gifts, what have you done?

lonal Posted: Sep 05, 2007 10:26 PM

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My parents are paying for the wedding so I want to do something big. I'm going t o look into sending them away for a few days. Have you thought about a night in a hotel somewhere after the wedding? They could probably use a little relaxation!

jtgarsik Posted: Sep 06, 2007 03:01 PM

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i had a photo of me & my mom, (and the groom of him & his mom) made into an oil painting....they do it in most eckerd stores & they come out beautiful!

jessruth9 Posted: Sep 06, 2007 03:07 PM

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Our parents are paying for everything.
We are getting them a Hilton Gift Card for a weekend stay wherever they want to go.
My parents are babysitting while we're on our honeymoon so i know they will need it and his dad and step mom take wekends all the time so this should be great for all of them.

little34 Posted: Sep 06, 2007 03:14 PM

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maybe a weekend away (upstate, penn., montauk) just the two of them

take them out to eat at their favorite restaurant

broadway tickets and a night in the city

sports tickets (if they are both into it)

hmmm....i can't think of any more...I'll keep thinking.

HeatherRose Posted: Sep 06, 2007 03:40 PM

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Posted by jtgarsik

i had a photo of me & my mom, (and the groom of him & his mom) made into an oil painting....they do it in most eckerd stores & they come out beautiful!

thats an awesome idea!

gettinghizitched Posted: Sep 06, 2007 03:45 PM

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I would like to know too. Me and FH are paying for our wedding ourself and we want to get something nice for the parents but i don't want to spent that much.

stonepondbabe Posted: Sep 06, 2007 04:12 PM

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Posted by jtgarsik

i had a photo of me & my mom, (and the groom of him & his mom) made into an oil painting....they do it in most eckerd stores & they come out beautiful!

That does seem neat, I've never heard of that. I'm afraid most of those options are outside our means at this point.... great ideas though, your parents will be thrilled :)

jtgarsik Posted: Sep 06, 2007 04:17 PM

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here's a sight that also offers pencil sketch drawing - their prices for oil painting are absolutely ridiculous(like i said - eckerds! lol) but the pencil sketches are really cool and it's a LOT cheaper. u may just want to check it out...here u go Painting from photos...

jtgarsik Posted: Sep 06, 2007 04:22 PM

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here's another...the prices are much better & they have a ton of options...
Canvas On Demand

...also what about making a DIY photo book??? i'm actually going to make one of our wedding...they have incredible prices on kodakgallery, my publisher, picaboo, snapfish etc. u can fill it with all sorts of photos, quotes, stories, etc...i actually like that idea better than the painting that we did, and it's cheaper!

MnM52607 Posted: Sep 06, 2007 04:25 PM

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We bought my mom her DOJ, my dad cufflinks from Tiffany and MIL a digital camera.

We paid for the wedding ourselves but bought them gifts for saying thank you for being there for us through everything.

TrueLoveIn2008 Posted: Sep 06, 2007 04:39 PM

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I haven't thought of this yet -- but my parents are paying for 90% of the wedding, and now that I'm thinking of it, I am thinking of getting them a gift card to a hotel, maybe to Marriott, etc, so they can use it anywhere. I won't have much $$ but I can charge it .... trying not to charge anything else for the wedding.

FH's parents are paying for a little, I think ... so I suppose we will get them a giftcard to a nice restaurant or something. They will be living in FL by the time of our wedding (moving this fall ... ) so we really can't take them out ourselves, which I would rather do.