Honoring foster parents

Give me some time to think about it, but I do want to say thank you to them. I work with a lot of foster parents, and they are some of the most amazing people. I would LOVE to be a foster parent but we dont have the set up for it right now. I'll try and think of another way to honor them but both your ideas sound wonderful.

I don't have any suggestions but my MOH and her husband have adopted two children out of foster care and have fostered three more in the last three years! FH and I will be starting pre-service classes shortly after the wedding. I'm totally in awe of the commitment and love that foster parents are capable of! Give them a big thank you for me!

As your favors do a donation in your guests names and then print a card for each guest to explain the donation and what they have done over the years. I think that would be a beautiful way to show your love and appreciation to their work and also educate your guests and maybe they will be moved to do something as well.

Sorry - I have no additional ideas but I love the idea of the letter and the blue pin. If FH is reading the letter aloud there will not be dry eye in the room. It is a commitment.

We don't believe in talking about donations publicly, but one idea that we had was to frame a copy of FH's adoption certificate and put it on the "memories" table (along with childhood pictures, photos of us as we started dating, etc.) Beside it, we can put some brochures on how to make donations, begin the experience of fostering, etc. Most people invited are pretty tuned in; FH's family is obviously aware and my mother is lawyer often acts as a court-appointed representative for children in care. But it still might be useful if someone decides they want to do more at some point. Would that be okay, or is it too pushy?

Ehhh the brochures would be a little much IMO.

Yeah, I'm on the fence too...

I think you ladies are right. No brochures.

Love that idea and I'm sure they will too.