And if you don't mind could you tell me (ballpark) what you spent..TIA
LaurenluvsTJ
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They are getting albums. We were planning on getting something, and then my mom found out and yelled at me and told me I was crazy to spend more money on gifts for them, so we didn't do it. We are paying for their albums though, so thats their gift.
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Kathleen, we're giving them albums & videos, but were considering a weekend at our fave B&B but were disappointed to find out the innkeepers sold to other people, so now we're a little hesitant (we loved the innkeepers). That would have been about 600. each
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Parent albums come with the package we get, so that's not any extra and both parents want to pay for their own upgrades, so we bought my parents an engraved frame from www.exclusivelyweddings.com that I pictured in my community album.
For his parents, we're prob. going to get them a gift certificate to their fav. restaurant.
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Right now I am thinking of getting double frames and putting a pic of them on their wedding day and then (when we get ours) we will put ours next to it.
I would like to get my mom a golf weekend somewhere and his parents a weekend somewhere too.
Right now the frames are a definite!
LaurenluvsTJ
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Posted by SweetCin704
Kathleen, we're giving them albums & videos, but were considering a weekend at our fave B&B but were disappointed to find out the innkeepers sold to other people, so now we're a little hesitant (we loved the innkeepers). That would have been about 600. each
Oh yeah, they're getting the video too!!!
M&S Sept12006
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Not for nothing but I dont understand parents' gifts... I mean unless they're paying for the wedding...but otherwise, whats the purpose???
sarahbelle
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We gave small gifts because we paid for the wedding ourselves. The moms and my dad got embroidered hankercheifs, maybe $20 each? Then we took IL's to dinner to say thank you for paying for the rehearsal dinner.
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Posted by M&S Sept12006
Not for nothing but I dont understand parents' gifts... I mean unless they're paying for the wedding...but otherwise, whats the purpose???
Same here-we are paying the wedding entirely-and i really dont have more money to spend on gifts-my mother was like a gift??? who says you have to get gifts??? lol
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Not for nothing but I dont understand parents' gifts... I mean unless they're paying for the wedding...but otherwise, whats the purpose???
I guess to thank them for helping you through life...thats JMO
ETA....I didn't mean that in a nasty way that is just what I think
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We got each set of parents albums from the photographer, and I got my parents a $125 gift certificate to a marina they are staying at the week after the wedding.....they are paying for most of the wedding so I wanted to get them something extra. I will probably get FH's parents a frame or something to open at the RD.
M&S Sept12006
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Posted by M&S Sept12006
Not for nothing but I dont understand parents' gifts... I mean unless they're paying for the wedding...but otherwise, whats the purpose???
I guess to thank them for helping you through life...thats JMO
ETA....I didn't mean that in a nasty way that is just what I think
Oh no no I didnt think you were nasty...I was just asking a question...
SuzBride
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we are getting each set a parent's album, dvd and a 4 night cruise to canada - they helped alot so we really wanted to show them how much they mean to us
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I was think the same damn thing!!!!!!!!!!!!! I mean for the most part we are paying for the wedding, my parents are giving us some cash for the hall...I was thinking our eng photos in really nice lenox frames or something.....
CKJ906
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not sure yet
ant n tilde
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i know its super early but my parents and my ILs would KILL me if i spent a lot on them - we are paying for the wedding ourselves - so i will probably get our moms gift certificates to a spa for all the pre wedding pampering - and the dads bottle of liquor. . .nothing crazy
maryb
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my parents are paying for the wedding..
im getting them a gift certificate to a bed and breakfast - they love montauk, but i think i might get one in newport, RI or the cape...
dont know how much, but they have helped out A LOT, including a house!! soo - i want to get them something nice
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We gave them frames for the wedding picture we will give them along with the parent albums. I also got my parents those handkerchiefs to use on the wedding day with poems on them and we took my parents out to dinner since they paid for part of the wedding.
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A grandchild. They'll just have to be patient and wait a year or two.
citycrab705
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Parents will get their album, dvd, and a portrait, no other gifts, my mom would think i was nuts, and their 40th anniv is 5 mos later so i'll get them something really nice for that, his mom does nothing so she'll get nothing extra
