Bride's Gift from Mom

[bella872]

Anyone have any ideas for giving a special gift from mom to the bride? I would like to do something extra nice, but can't seem to come up with anything really nice. Any suggestions?

[WebLady]

If you helped pay for the wedding that would be more than enough for me!

But if you wanted to do something special; maybe you could read a nice poem and/or put together a scrapbook of old pictures.

[MrsDM]

The scrapbook is a good idea. Along the lines of that, I once saw a daughter do this for her mom (so you could do it the other way). She made her mom a blanket of pictures of her, her mom and her brother. It was the sweetest thing. Like she printed the pictures on a certain type of paper to iron them on I believe.

[Scrwballsgrl]

That is really sweet, like in that movie "Stepmom" with Susan Serandan & Julia Roberts.
I love that movie!:)
But yeah I like the scrapbook or blanket idea. Something personal from you to her would be best!

[stephw98]

You can make a matted piece of artwork consisting of any word of your choice. Letter Perspectives is a unique way to welcome the new bride or groom to the family. Choosing an appropriate gift for your newly married son or daughter should be something that is enjoyable, not overwhelming. Take the time to find something unique.

If both the man and woman are working, a gift card to a cleaning agency may be the best gift they receive! Depending on how much you want to spend you could buy a gift card that would cover one visit or one that would cover a monthly visit for a year.

[Whitewater]

Would you be able to personalize something? Like, (well, I don't know if you have these stores in your area) the store Things Remembered -- they do everything from bronzing baby shoes to monogramming sterling silver wedding goblets.

Maybe you could give your bride a personalized, engraved silver photo frame? With a special photo of the two of you in it?

I can't really think of anything either -- my mother would never dream of doing anything like what you want, so I have no experience. 90% of my gifts (including birthdays and Christmas) as an adult that my mother gave me have been gift cards or cash. She admires it whenever I do something I know she particularly likes (she loves fancily wrapped presents, so I try to do that for her, heaven knows it doesn't cost much financially, and only a little bit more time than plain wrapping) but she has never ever tried to reciprocate.

I hope that's helpful, I'm kind of coming at this from the perspective of what I would want as a personalized wedding gift from *my* mom. Something personal but useful would fit the bill nicely -- like a high-quality personalized photo frame, or a set of wine glasses with our new (my fiance and I, I mean) monogram on the glasses . . .. something that we can use, but that is personal in some way.

Although to be perfectly honest, the gift I want most from my mother she will never give me until she dies. All I want is for her to put our old baby pictures etc on CD, via scanning them and turning the scans into .jpgs, so that they don't degrade even more than they have already, but she won't do it. I brought it up when we were looking at them this past Mother's Day and she looked at me like I was crazy.

Fine.

So, given that my experience probably isn't typical, I still hope that my thoughts help you along your search.


Whitewater