The mother of the bride has an important role to play in the entire wedding, from the day her daughter announces the wedding to the moment the bride and groom leave for their honeymoon. Read on for our essential guide to being the mother of the bride, as well as mother of the bride gifts including personalised photo gifts, such as engraved photo frames and personalised champagne...
A Special Relationship
The relationship between mother and daughter is a special one, and the bride-to-be will need her mother’s support from the word go. This support can be practical – helping with the cost of the wedding, organising the flowers, dealing with accommodation for the guests – or emotional – bolstering her confidence or giving advice on a happy marriage. Many brides are nervous about being a wife, and it is their mothers they will look to first for guidance. For this reason it is a lovely way for the bride to say thank you to her mother by buying her a special mother of the bride gift. This token doesn’t have to be expensive, it could be something like a bottle of personalised champagne with a photo of you and your mother for example to create unique and unusual personalised photo gifts that can be treasured for many years. If the mother of the bride is not partial to a champagne gift, then why not consider an engraved photo frame? You could add a photo of you and your mum, or a picture of you and your whole family that she can keep once her you get married. Personalised photo gifts are perfect for sentimental mums!
Getting The Balance Right
It is important, as mother of the bride, to get the balance right when helping out with the wedding arrangements. Some mothers (not you, of course) can get a bit too involved, making it harder for the bride-to-be, not easier. A good rule of thumb is to only offer advice and help if it is asked for directly. This will be good practice for when you become a grandmother!
Gifts from the Mother of the Bride
The mother of the bride will want to make a special contribution to the wedding, usually in the form of a special wedding gift. You may want to buy your daughter a personalised bride gift for her to treasure (a ‘something new’), or to give her something meaningful to you as her ‘something borrowed’. For the bride and groom, why not give a special bride and groom wedding gift in the form of the wedding wine or wedding champagne for the guests to enjoy? This way you are also helping towards the cost of the wedding, and giving a practical and enjoyable gift. To make the wedding wine or wedding champagne even more special you could have it personalised for the bride and groom. Make sure you buy enough wedding wine or wedding champagne for all the wedding guests to enjoy a toast though! If you want to get a gift specifically for the bride and groom, then also consider a personalised photo gift, such as an engraved wedding frame or wedding frame and flutes set to which you could add a photo of the family including the bride and groom, which we are sure they’ll want to display in their house!
Outfits
As mother of the bride it will be important to you to choose an outfit that looks fantastic and makes you feel great, but this can be a stressful job. If your daughter is not too busy she might like to come shopping with you for your outfit. If not, take a close friend for advice. Find out if there are any strong theme colours in the wedding so you don’t clash. It’s also worth trying to find out what the mother of the groom is wearing – you wouldn’t want to turn up in the same outfit!
Mother of the Bride Gifts
Now that you have seen what the duties and responsibilities of the mother of the bride are, you may wish to buy a very special mother of the bride gift if you are the bride to be, or the groom to be. As you may be able to tell the mother of the bride is an important role and she will be giving you as the bride and groom to be lots of help and support hopefully. If you want to treat her (because of course thank you wedding gifts are not compulsory) then why not check out the range of
mother of the bride gifts that we offer? The selection of gifts specifically selected for mums includes personalised champagne and personalised wine gifts, which are ideal personalised photo gifts, which she can treasure once the bride has got hitched. Other mother of the bride gifts include champagne sets (which combine personalised, brand and house champagne inside bottle boxes and presented alongside champagne glasses or engraved flutes for beautiful champagne gifts sets, which might we add look tremendous!) and engraved gifts, such as engraved compact mirrors, engraved glasses and personalised jewellery boxes for example. Many of these mother of the bride gifts are personalised and thoughtful, so why not take a browse through the full range of mother of the bride gifts to find the perfect thank you present for her?
Date posted: 06/07/2010
