Parents gifts

I got the mothers the same things ( picture frame, bracelet, wine glass, thank you note) and the fathers we haven't decided on yet lol men are so hard to shop for. My parents are paying for almost everything and his parents are helping a little bit but not a lot at all. We plan on treating them the same with gifts.

I haven't thought about it a whole lot, but I plan of doing one of the following:

1. Each parent gets a joint gift from FH and I

2. I get gifts for my parents and FH gets gifts for his

I think it all depends on what sort of gift you plan on giving. I'm probably gonna go the sentimental mushy route, so I'll probably go with option 2

My father paid for 80% of our wedding, my mother and stepfather paid for the other 20%. My husband's father and stepmother covered the rehearsal dinner, and my husband's mother didn't contribute at all. She has no money so we bought her dress, hair and makeup, and hotel room for the weekend. This didn't affect any of the presents, we just got every parent a joint present from us. They had multiple things in the presents but it was still one joint gift from both of us!

Her dad can't make it and mine just downsized a LOT when they moved from CT to FL. We discussed it and decided we will gift them pictures and a photo book from the wedding. My parents really don't want more stuff, they don't even do Christmas anymore for each other. But pictures of their daughters happy will be something I can see all of them enjoying.

Now to be fair, we are paying for the wedding on our own. I would have definitely come up with something else if my parents had contributed.

The gifts are given to thank them for their love and support during your life, so it doesn't matter how much or little each parent may be giving toward the wedding. We chose to forgo parent gifts.

We're making each sets of parents a Shutterfly book once our photos come back.

I stole the idea from the forums, so it's like a steal it forward now.

Our parents both contributed, but not to the same level financially. We still gave them even gifts. I paid for both moms to get their hair & makeup done, and we got nice booze for the dads.