Presents for both Mums?

Cypresstree

Hi all,
We're currently in the process of planning our wedding. Im thinking of getting both mums a present to give them on the day, something they can keep, instead of two bouquets of flowers?

Any suggestions?

Thank you!

Penny Dreadful

I'm getting married this year and won't be giving flowers or presents to the mums. I've never understood where this tradition came from in the first place
I think it is strange to decide to give mothers presents over fathers too for that matter.
My mother in law to be is pretty broke so I suggested to my boyfriend that we (although it will appear from him) either pay for or give her money towards her outfit for the wedding so she will get something nice to wear for the day.

I'll give my parents something myself before the wedding to say thank you.

Kinda hijacked your thread OP and have been no help at all. Sorry:o

tinkerbell

I agree, I think the tradition of giving flowers to the mothers is ridiculous and completely OTT and unnecessary. Besides, where are they gonna put the flowers? They'll be out of water all night! We're not doing it anyway.

artyeva

if you did want to go with flowers, any wedding florist [or flower DIY'er] worth their salt would package gift bouquets in a 'water bag' so it's not they'd be out of water. my sister is a wedding florist and i see her do these all the time for weddings.

what about a little piece of jewellry? like a broche [brooch?] or a bracelet? if they're into that kind of thing you could pick up something nice and unique on etsy. maybe get it engraved with a thank you or something?

Sleepy

Unless the parents are paying for the wedding, I see no reason for presents for the mothers and in that scenario I'd be buying presents for the fathers as well...

Cypresstree

I'm hoping to get something for the men folk as well! I'm not talking about anything massively expensive, but something that we could give to our folks the morning of the wedding, as a thank you for helping etc etc just something thoughtful, unique, personal ...

lily09

We have decided we are getting the mothers something from the grace kelly collection from newbridge and the dads cufflinks. We are looking for pieces at the moment that can be engraved.We have also decided to give them to them ourselves the morning of the wedding with a nice card thanking them for everything.(before the make up!!)The whole flower thing is a little bit rehearsed and expected (imo)
Our parents have been a fantastic support both emotionally and a little bit financially so we would love them to have a small token.However I do understand it is totally unnecessary at a very expensive time.

sillysocks

We got married abroad so didn't want to do the flowers thing either. We bought both mothers a nice photo frame that they could use for putting a wedding photo in. That didn't cost too much (think we got them in TK Max actually, they often have lovely frames), and then as a thank you to both our mums and dads we both them each a voucher for a restaurant just to say thanks for all their help.
Although we did totally forget the stuff to them on the day

cch

I asked the florist for flowering plants that they could replant after the wedding - and threw her into an absolute flap!! Apparently no-one had ever asked for that before and finding something that would also look good on the day was a really tall order!! In the end she came through with hydrangea (sp?) plants which both mums loved and planted in their gardens straight away. So they get to see the plants every day and remember the wedding, aw. But the cool thing is because they're in different parts of the country one plant has blue flowers and one has purple, something to do with the soil :cool:

baby and crumble

You could do up a couple of photobooks with photos from you as you were growing up, and then a little section at the end with photos as a couple. You could either do different ones for the different parents- i actually think it would be kind of nice to give the grooms family a photobook of the bride growing up, and vice versa. Like a new family thing. Maybe that's a bit gimpy, I don't know.

Toots

We did prezzies for mums and dads (didn't see why the poor dads should be left out). The mums got ornamental glass bowls, my dad is really into wines so we got him a newbridge silver wine bottle holder thing, and we got some really good brandy for my FIL. We didn't do flowers because we were bringing everything down to the hotel the night before and we were all staying the night, so even if we got the water bags it'd be 3 days before they got them home.

I love the photo frame idea, I'd say most mums would love that and they'd have lots of photos to choose from after the day!

Bride2012

I would have thought that the present was for thanks for bringing me up rather than thanks for paying for the wedding. I love the photo frame idea for a wedding photo. We're thinking of a weekend away voucher each for our sets of parents (great deals on these out now).

itsallaboutme!!

baby and crumble wrote: »

You could do up a couple of photobooks with photos from you as you were growing up, and then a little section at the end with photos as a couple. You could either do different ones for the different parents- i actually think it would be kind of nice to give the grooms family a photobook of the bride growing up, and vice versa. Like a new family thing. Maybe that's a bit gimpy, I don't know.

I was BM at a friends wedding last year and they did this! It was a lovely idea and both sets of parents loved it.Needless to say both mums were in floods of tears having looked through it.