What are you giving the parents for gifts ?

We are thinking about digital picture frames, watches, and a nice centerpiece for my mom's coffee table since she completely just redecorated her whole house.

We're giving each of our moms and FH's gran hand blown/painted glass vases. Traditionally they would get flowers but since those would die before they fly home, we elected for a floral themed vase. These will be presented at the Rehearsal Dinner. I also found the most adorable gift bag to put them in. The bags themselves are like velvet and as they all 3 love nice paper products I know they will love them

That is so nice, see I want something like that . More of a keepsake than just a gift that gets but in the corner and collect dust.

My mom is getting a beautiful silver box engraved, my stepmom a purse with her initials my dad a pocket watch with "DAD" and stepdad a money clip watch with his initials

We made a deal with our photographer where he is making two parent albums (smaller but identical versions of the album we are getting) and we are giving them that.

@Lanai: Check out etsy and your local boutiques. I found these vases in a tiny store I must have passed a 100 times without going in. best part, I got them on sale for $50 each. Waaaay less than what I would have spent on flowers and I know they will cherish them for years to come. The bags were from papyrus. I think they were about $6 each.

@Glenn: The albums are also a great idea. I know our moms will probably look at ours way more than we will. It was one of the things we pushed hard for in the negotiations with the photog. Who knew albums could be so pricey

Oh my gosh -- I keep forgetting about this "to do" on our list! Thanks for the reminder (and the ideas), ladies! D'oh!

I swear I'd lose my mind if it weren't for the checklists and forums on here.