Parents gifts

Maybe just a watch or piece of jewelry?

I think that your ideas are good! I think they are thoughtful and fit the way you are describing your family dynamics. The blanket I think would make a good keepsake and but it is still a nice personal touch. If you were going to do a frame, you could get the ones that are sold with two or more frames attached to one another, that way your family kind of knows that there is something else coming once you get the pictures. However, if I were to choose between the two, I would go with the blanket!

Perhaps a picture from your engagement session just with a note saying you'll replace with a wedding photo? Our parents were insistent on not getting them gifts so we're going to take each out to dinner once the wedding is over. We're not the sappy, cliche type either so the cute sayings aren't happening.

If your parents wouldn't mind the blanket, I think it would be a sweet gesture. I personally wouldn't use a blanket with faces on it but that's just me. Maybe even an IOU and do a blanket afterwards with a few wedding pictures.

What about some type of home decor? Maybe something with a cute saying or even a picture that says "Home". There's a lot of cute stuff at Hobby Lobby. Spa day with you? Gift cards for a date night? Personalized something.. maybe a cutting board?

Daughter and SIL gave their four parents small token gifts (e.g., cuff links and handkerchiefs -- mine was personalized with something that I've said to her since she was a baby, MOG's was more generic to fit their relationship), but what meant the MOST to FOB and I were the handwritten, very personalized thank you notes they each wrote to each of us. Four months later, mine are still on the refrigerator, and they will be something I will cherish for the rest of my life. As someone else said, if a blanket with your photo is something your parents would appreciate then go for it (it would not be something I'd love, but personal tastes are different).

What about a keepsake album of wedding photos? It won't come in until after the fact, but if they have all helped with the wedding, it's a nice way to express thanks and gives them a keepsake of the big day that they helped to pull off.

We bought note cards from etsy. We will write a nice note in each of them, there are quite a few since we also have interesting family dynamics. We will write a heartfelt message in each note. After the wedding I will put together a photo book on shutterfly for each set of parents.