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Ok, I am spending very little on parent gifts because I will be making them. I've recently begun doing pottery and am planning on making hand thrown serving bowls for both sets of parents (and mugs for all the attendents). That will give them a homeade gift that they can use for years :)
My mom helped us out with around $1000 and Fi's dad is paying for the rehearsal dinner, we took care of everything else ourselves, so I voted $25-$50 not because of how much they have helped but just because they are our parents and brought us up to be the wonderful people we are today. I might get my mom this beautiful crystal vase that is engraved 'today a bride, tomorrow a wife, forever your daughter', I just love that quote!
Our wedding costs around $15,000 by the way
This is a question for me too. I have talked to my mom about it, she has been helping a LOT and said.. that's crazy, you don't have to get us gifts. So that makes me feel better about getting them something extravagant! We have 5 people to buy for, so I'm going to go with like 30 a piece, and maybe more for my mom!
@Rosiebear - That sounds like a great gift!
@tammy - What a nice perspective. And I like that quote, too.
@Ella - My parents are the same way. They think getting them a material gift is unnecessary, but I know I still want to come up with a gift that's as touching to them as their contribution to our wedding is to us.
I've been wondering the same thing. My parents are paying for 2/3 of our wedding, but we obviously have no way of thanking them for that materially. I'm thinking along the lines of a wedding album and a nice framed picture of us and my parents from the wedding. I think sentimental is a pretty good route to take!
Our parents actually told us not to get them anything because they are paying for most of the wedding (about $8,000 of the $10,000) since we are college seniors going to grad school next year with no money. But we feel really guilty not getting them anything at all, so I think we're going to have some engagement photos printed and framed for them. And then wedding photos down the road too.
So I guess my answer would be about $30 for each set of parents.
we will be making wedding photo albums for each set of parents.
We bought our parents a Lladro that depicted a couple. They are both collectors and LOVED them!
I love the idea of homemade gifts and/or photo albums!
We're getting married in national park that my family used to go to every year. FI and I were visiting the park a few months ago and stumbled into a silent auction to raise money for a school for park employees' kids, so at the last minute I bid on a dinner for 2 worth $175 at the park's uber-fancy hotel restaurant. I got it for $90 :) (It also came with a tote bag and some other stuff.) I figured that in all their years of family vacations my parents never went there to eat (or ever had a date by themselves in the park), and it was something they'd never spend money on for themselves. So I decided they needed a date night at a fancy restaurant for once :) The crazy thing is that the $175 does not include alcohol. I have no idea how 2 people can eat $175 worth of food alone--but I guess they'll find out!
We ended up spending a little over $100 per couple (my parents and MIL & her hubs) and about $50 for his dad.
We got my FIL a cross necklace, a pocket watch for my MIL's hubby and a snow globe for my MIL (she LOVES those things)...
Attached is what we got my parents. It's their engagement picture with their wedding song.
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I love all the ideas being shared here. I am thinking about doing something photo-related for my parents, but my FIs parents only have maybe 3 photos up in their entire house, so we're trying to think of something more suited to their style. I gave the job to my FI since he knows them best, but I'm thinking it'll end up being a nice dinner date out, like WeeBirdy was talking about.
My parents are amazing and are paying for the wedding. I'm so grateful and i hate when they say "You don't have to get us anything." My grandparents are paying for the rehearsal dinner, so ill be getting them something too. i feel like we should thank them even if it is just something small.
im thinking about ordering some embroidered handkercheifs from the etsy seller that i got my BM gifts from. theyre really gorgeous & she has several really nice messages that you can get on them. i think for a set of 4 is around $50. i might go for the set of 5 though and give one to FI (:
We are paying for the wedding oursevles but i still think it is important to give parents a gift. Our gifts are not sentimental but more practical.
For my in-laws we are paying for a two night stay in a hotel room in our city. My future in laws don't live in the same city we are getting married in. For my parents we are giving them limo service to and from our wedding so they don't need to worry about getting home and this will include our out of town family members who are staying at their house.
in the end it comes out to about $200 per side.
We don't really have a huge budget for our parents, and they would have a cow if we spent a lot of money on them. Actually, I don't think they'd want us to spend money at all. But we thought we'd get them something. So we decided to give one gift for each set of parents. They're both getting digitial photo frames with uploaded photos of us as children and teenagers, and our engagement photos. When we get our wedding photos, we'll upload it on there for them as they're not tech savvy at all. We found the frames for $28 each (including shipping and memory card) on Amazon. The resolution is not the highest, but the quality and photo crispness are still pretty good.
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So when I saw this, I though "We're supposed to get our parents a gift?" lol. Our plan was to take them out to dinner when we pass through their cities on our way back from the honeymoon, and to get them a Snapfish album printed once we get our photo cd. Hope that's good enough...
I am not giving them shit, because no one is helping with our wedding, lol.
As an update, I talked to my brother who is getting married in September and he didn't think they were planning to give the parents anything but photos. He later talked about it with my parents and they requested we not buy anything, and to pass that message onto me. I am going to take my mom out for a pedicure and my dad out for lunch two days before the wedding.
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My parents and my FI's parents have been very generous paying for most of our wedding. Generally speaking, my parents don't like me to spend a lot of money on gifts for them and prefer gifts of spending time together. The week before the wedding, I'm going to take my dad to lunch with just me, and my mom out for a pedicure. My FI will do something similar. We also have plans to get them a gift to thank you for how much they've done for us.
What do you think is an appropriate amount to spend on gifts for parents who've funded most of the wedding?