Thankiing Your Parents- #Wedding Advice
8 great ways to thank your parents for their support on your wedding day.
Put it in writing
Choose a gift you can engrave so that your parents can be reminded of your day long afterwards. A sterling-silver cake server, a set of crystal wine glasses or champagne flutes or a vase, engraved with your wedding date, makes an elegant and practical thank-you.
Treat them like royalty.
Make sure all your parents arrive in style at the wedding. If you and your Dad are arriving by limousine, order a second limousine for your Mom and in-laws-to-be.
Tell them they’re still your guiding lights
If you’re planning to light a unity candle during your wedding ceremony, you’ll have a parent from either side helping to light the candle. Make that moment special by giving each set of parents a candle, a candle holder and an engraved lighter on the night before the ceremony.
Remind them of their own wedding
Decorate the table where you will be signing the registry with your parents’ own wedding day photos set into new photo frames engraved with their wedding dates. Give them the framed photos after the wedding ceremony.
Celebrate your heritage
Make copies of wedding portraits from both sides of your family and both sides of your groom’s family, going back as many generations as you can. Then make two sets of “family tree” photo collages, each “rooted” with a photo of the two of you. Frame the two collages. Then display them on a table near where the receiving line will start. Place your guest book there, too. Give the framed trees to your parents towards the end of the night.
Make their place cards extra special
Mark your parents’ places at the wedding reception with a silver picture frame, engraved with the wedding date. Have each parent’s name written in calligraphy and inserted into the frame. After the wedding, fill the frames with your wedding photo.
Toast them with style
Write a toast together that the two of you can deliver, saluting your parents’ help during the wedding planning. Have the toast hand written by a calligrapher and framed.
Thank them colorfully
Order a bouquet of flowers that matches the colors and style of your bridal bouquet and have it delivered to your parents’ homes the morning after the wedding.
Courtesy of Get Married
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May 5, 2010 at 3:16 PM
Great ideas... I wish I had thought of some of those when I was married. Good thing it's "never too late."