Ideas for practical and original wedding gifts for parents from newlyweds
The wedding of one's own offspring is, perhaps, for most parents an event no less important than his birth. Yes, and various troubles, the financial costs of this event often fall on the shoulders of fathers and mothers of the bride and groom. As a rule, one of the first toasts is pronounced for them at a festive banquet, it will be useful to please the parents with a special gift.
Traditional options
Presentation of a present to parents from newlyweds is an ancient Slavic sign. Thus, the bride and groom thanked each other's parents for raising and raising a son or daughter. In the east, there was (and in deaf regions and today there is) a tradition to pay the fee for a girl. Wedding kalym is a rather rich offering, intended specifically for the bride's family. As a rule, it is livestock, wine, money, carpets, harvest.
In Slavic families, by tradition, parents were thanked and presented usually on the second day of the wedding. On this day, they were transported around the village on an decorated cart, they were given jokes, songs and jokes, and also presented gifts. The latter were often with an erotic hint - as the desire to have another child in return for creating his own family. In other words, the second day young people were dedicated to their parents, as well as close relatives (grandmothers, grandfathers).
For mom and dad groom
By tradition, the bride handed the bridegroom's parents hand-made things. Usually it was homespun textile, embroidered towels, tablecloths. Thus, the girl showed her own skills in needlework, thrift.
Following this tradition, home textiles can be a gift from newlyweds to parents: curtains, rugs, carpets, towels. A bedding or table set will be appropriate. Give the gift originality will help personalized embroidery. Since few modern ladies have the ability to embroidery and free time, it is wiser to order machine embroidery in a specialized salon.
Always appropriate, and most importantly - the desired and pleasant gift will be the one that is associated with the passion of parents. If the future mother-in-law is keen on cooking, then she will obviously be delighted with the culinary books in the gift edition, dishes, bakeware, a set of spices or rare oils. If, on the contrary, you want to facilitate the economic duties of the “second mother”, give her a bread maker, a slow cooker, a dishwasher or other household appliances. It is difficult to find a woman who will not be pleased with such gifts.
Relevant for couples gift - service. It is not necessary to present expensive porcelain sets consisting of many items. Even a small tea or coffee set matched with attention and handed with the words that your young family is waiting for an invitation to a family tea for their father-in-law and mother-in-law will look cute and symbolic.
If you want your new mother-in-law to remember you with a kind word, give her a good tea or coffee. Do not be stingy and choose a decent option by purchasing it in large quantities. Every time, wanting to taste tea or coffee and enjoying its taste, the groom's parents will remember the donors.
If funds allow, present to parents of the future husband decorations made in the same style. For mom, you can pick up earrings, and for father - cufflinks.The main thing is that the jewelry should not be fake or cheap jewelry.
If you have no money for expensive and impressive things, it is better to choose another gift option. Similarly, you should do in the event that you are afraid to "miss" with the style of jewelry.
For the father and mother of the bride
In the old days, after marriage, the girl passed into the family of the groom, therefore in her own family the number of employees decreased. Today, you can beat this by giving the “automatic assistant” to the girl’s father and mother. A great option - multicooker. Larger gifts will suit a dishwasher or a washing machine, a refrigerator, etc.
The textile sets described above will also be a good gift. (bed linen, tablecloths, towels, etc.). Beautiful dishes will be no less symbolic. Demonstrate parental health care - a heater, a humidifier, a massager, or a salt lamp will surely please them.
The groom can give the mother-in-law a bouquet, and if she is keen on floriculture, she can give her a rare indoor flower. A test can be given elite alcohol.
Both parents of the groom and parents of the bride will be pleased with trips to the sanatorium, tickets to the cinema, passes to the gym, swimming pool, philharmonic society. If funds allow, you can purchase a country plot for them, and even better - a cottage with ready-made buildings and landings.
At this age, by the way, many people have summer houses and literally live there. In this case, you can give them the tools and equipment that facilitates the work (lawn mower, automatic irrigation system). A barbecue grill for frying meat will also be successful. Gifts in the form of decorative elements will be appropriate: garden lights, decorations for flower beds, small forged benches.
Do-it-yourself gifts
Hand-made gifts are not a way to save money, but an indicator that you tried hard, wanted to present something truly symbolic and unique. As a rule, young people before the wedding have a lot of trouble and almost no free time, therefore, if they created a collage on paper paper or baked a cake as a gift to their parents, this indicates their respect and strong love for their father and mother.
In the banquet hall, you can pre-hang the old photos from the family albumby accompanying them with touching inscriptions for parents. You can create a kind of locomotive, cutting out of paper cars. On each car you can attach a photo of the bride and groom from birth. The locomotive is mounted on the wall at the entrance to the banquet hall.
As we move to the places of the parents, the photos replace each other and show how the children grew, the family changed. Directly near the devices, in the place where moms and dads of young people will sit, you can put a photo in a frame. Young people can be photographed with their parents a few days before the wedding, but it will be even more interesting if you do it at the registry office.
Naturally, such a gift requires a lot of preparation and the presence of assistants. But that is what makes it even more valuable.
You can bake a cake or cake, the main thing - to do it yourself. You can attach a playful note to the cake, with an explanation of its composition, the designation of each of the ingredients. For example: “to express our love, we put ripe ripe strawberries in the cake, and to show respect, we filled it with a tender souffle made from natural cream”. Undoubtedly, even with an abundance of snacks and treats on the table, parents will gladly take cakes (they will have to be prepared in 2 copies) home to try them in the morning.
Unusual ideas and surprises
Most parents, barely talking about the wedding of the beloved offspring, begin to look forward to their grandchildren. In this regard, young people can present them with an orange tree. It symbolizes family comfort, the continuity of generations.A gift can be accompanied by a joking promise that, just as an orange tree is covered with fruits (and it bears fruit all year round), so your parents will be surrounded by their grandchildren.
However, if the spouses are very young, and their parents want them to finish their studies first and take place on a career basis, such a gift may scare them.
Original will be presented to parents medals, cups, certificates. The main thing is to truthfully and at the same time sincerely determine the nomination for each of the parents. In this case, in the scenario of the holiday it is better to take a special place for the ceremony of giving gifts. The bride can say words of gratitude to her parents and explain the meaning of the nomination, and the groom can solemnly present the award. Then he likewise thanks his family, and the bride is engaged in awarding medals or cups.
Bouquets of sweets and fruits look original. The main thing - that they were not disclosed or damaged. It is unlikely that parents will begin to taste an unusual gift at a banquet, where there are already many treats. But they can take him home and try for 2-3 days after the wedding.
What is better not to give?
Before talking about unwanted gifts, it is worth noting that the gifts to the parents of the groom and the parents of the bride should be equivalent. If some get household appliances, then the second is desirable to present something like that.
It is better to choose gifts for parents of young together. It brings together, allows you to better know the family of your partner. In addition, the bride can stop the young man in time if, for example, he is going to buy flowers for which she is allergic to her mother-in-law.
Above it was about the opportunity to give a set or a tea pair, but from the pots and pans as a gift to parents should be abandoned. It looks too ordinary, and a woman can see in such a gift a subtle hint that her place in the kitchen.
No need to give gifts that may cause controversy in the family. For example, if the father of the groom or bride is a passionate fisherman and constantly disappears on a lake or river, and his wife tirelessly “saws” him for it, it is better not to give spinning, waders or a folding chair. The head of the family will want to immediately experience all this in the case, once again “slipping away” from home, in which the newlyweds will indirectly be guilty.
Taking care of the health of parents is always commendable. The above list of gifts from this group. However, they should stop. It is not recommended to give medicines, certificates for a doctor's appointment (even very good or paid), means for measuring pressure, sugar level. All these items, if they are necessary, it is better to buy moms and dads for no reason.
If you believe the traditions, you can not give a clock, open objects, mirrors. According to beliefs, they can bring discord in the family. Even if you yourself do not believe in signs, it is quite possible that your parents, being people of the older generation, will see an unkind sign in such presents.
When choosing gifts, it is important to approach this responsibly - find out the wishes, take into account personal preferences, family traditions. Choosing gifts at the last moment, you risk to buy completely unnecessary items. If you donate something cheap, you will create the impression that you are presenting the presents exclusively "for show". A similar impression will be created even if you give people an expensive but useless thing (for example, a refrigerator, if recently parents have already bought such equipment).
It is not recommended to give clothes and shoes to parents. According to etiquette, similar gifts can be presented to each other only by close relatives. On the wedding day, usually the daughter's fiancé or fiancé of the son is not yet such kind of people for the moms and dads of their “halves”.
About what to give to parents from the newlyweds, see below.
