Presents for bride and groom parents?

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Is it a thing to get presents for the bride & grooms family on the day of the wedding? From bride & groom I mean. Thanks

Not that very heard. I would get them something if they had some something for the wedding that you wanted to acknowledge and thank them for but not just for the hell of it.

@ClockBiscuit great thanks. It's a small wedding so was thinking if we gift parents of bride & groom, then we would feel we would need to gift step parents then bla bla bla and the full wedding guests would end up with a gift so will be opting for no gifts. Thanks

It used to be when we and our peers got married (nearly 40 years ago - how did that happen?!), but usually just flowers presented to mother of bride and mother of groom during groom’s speech, to thank them for their help with the arrangements.

May not be so appropriate these days as mostly bride and groom make arrangements (which are then frustrated by their parents, if posts on Mumsnet are representative!) but may be nice to give a voucher for a meal/hotel (depending on budget) but needn’t be done publicly. Maybe get the nicest wedding photo with them framed?

A bouquet of flowers for each mum has been the norm at any weddings i have been to, going back over the last 20 years of friends getting married

We did but our parents made a big contribution to the wedding and we wanted to say thank you.

I got my DM and MIL a silver photo frame, and they got to choose a photo from the photographer to go in it.

I haven't seen any public gift giving at a wedding for years and years.

40 odd years ago it was common for parents to have paid for hosted the wedding, and done a lot of the organising, so it was more typical as a thank you, but I can't think of a wedding where this has happened in the last 20 - 25 years.

I suspect a lot of couples get their parents an album of photos or something, afterwards.

We did, as it was the norm at all weddings I'd been to at that point. MIL had travelled, so rather than flowers we bought them a little gift (not expensive) to remember the day with. We gave it direct to them after the speeches, so not included with the presents for the bridesmaids and best man. We didn't go any further than the two mothers.