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Thoughts on Thank You to Parents in Law?

K2020, on October 29, 2019 at 1:23 PM Posted in Planning 0 6

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I've been thinking for awhile now that I will write a personal thank you card to my future parents-in-law and give this to them at the rehearsal dinner or on the actual wedding day for them to read later.

Has anyone ever heard of this/what are your thoughts? Do you think the rehearsal dinner or day of the wedding would be better to give this to them?

I assumed this was a fairly common gesture, but now that I am searching for a forum/website regarding it- I cannot seem to find anything. I would like to thank his parents for everything they've done for me, as well as raising their son to be the person that he is. I am MUCH closer to his parents than my own and I want them to know I appreciate them.

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Latest activity by Nicole, on October 29, 2019 at 9:57 PM

Master November 2019
Mrs. S · on October 29, 2019 at 1:31 PM
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I’m doing this and putting with their present at the rehearsal dinner
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Legend July 2019
MrsD · on October 29, 2019 at 1:33 PM
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We wrote letters to each of our parents and included them with our wedding presents, we gifted them at the rehearsal dinner.
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Savvy September 2020
K2020 · on October 29, 2019 at 1:34 PM
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If you don't mind me asking, what is the present that you got them?
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Master November 2019
Mrs. S · on October 29, 2019 at 1:38 PM
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I got my fmil a handkerchief that says For Your Happy Tears 11/24/19 and gold flower earrings. I got my ffil a tie clip but now he’s actually not coming to the wedding so I’m trying to see if my stepbrother wants it for his wedding 😐
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January 2019
MOB So Cal · on October 29, 2019 at 1:47 PM
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Daughter and SIL did this for all four of us parents and gave them to us along with small token gifts at the rehearsal (personalized cuff links for dad, and a handkerchief for me with something I've said to daughter throughout her life embroidered on it). The gifts were very sweet and thoughtful, but honestly? The cards and handwritten "love notes" would have been more than enough for me. I will treasure them for the rest of my life. SIL's especially touched me.... After all, daughter and I have been extremely close her entire life and I know how much I mean to her, but for our sweet SIL to write me a love note and tell me what it means to him to officially be part of our family? That just about did me in.... Thankfully, FOB and I didn't open them until we got home.
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Nicole · on October 29, 2019 at 9:57 PM
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I think that's a really sweet gesture! I would give it to them after the rehearsal dinner that way you're not stressing about finding them/giving it to them the morning of the wedding.
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