Wedding Gift Ideas for the Groom's Parents
- Give your parents an album that is filled with pictures of their courtship and marriage. Include pictures of you and your siblings as you were growing up. Incorporate pictures of you and your new spouse at family gatherings. Have your engagement picture in the album. Intersperse poems of love and parents throughout the album. Write a note that tells your parents how much you love them and how thankful you are for them. This gift will become an heirloom.
- Plan a weekend get-a-way for your parents. Find out where they had their honeymoon and send them there. Find out your parents favorite place to vacation. If recreating your parents honeymoon is not possible send them to a nice, restful hotel with a spa. After the stress of the wedding your parents deserve to relax.
- Let your parents know how much you love them by using a video camera. Before the wedding, make time to create a video that will express how each of you feels. Let love and laughter fill the video and give it to your parents as you leave the wedding. The groom should tell stories about growing up. The bride should thank the parents for loving her and accepting her. She should assure the parents of her love for their son. Watching this video in the aftermath of the wedding will mean the world to your parents.
- Give your parents matching t-shirts and baseball caps that are inscribed with the words "Father of the Groom" and "Mother of the Groom." These shirts and caps can be worn during your wedding weekend and identify your parents to those who have not met them before. This gift can be worn after your wedding day as a reminder of your special time.