Wedding Gift for the mother of the bride

I got my mom the collage that I have linked below. I included photos from when I was a baby until present. It included photos of me as well as immediate and extended family.

https://www.shutterfly.com/prints/art-prints/tilted-heart-collage-art-print?feeds=y&productCode=1244656&categoryCode=1154015&skuCode=1244680&CID=SEGSH.HOMEDECOR.557_339710_8384417_1050514787&gclid=Cj0KCQiAv6yCBhCLARIsABqJTjYW_di6LJ_U48xLr3v3agk4ZJa0YD59wrG38bnCN7nEY8TdEvO1x5QaAtivEALw_wcB

After the wedding, traditional photos of us in albums went to all of our parents and grandparents.
Other than that, no gifts to parents are traditional at wedding time. We give them gifts for their birthdays, Mother's and Father's Day, their Anniversary, Christmas, and fo to

Sorry - and for our winter holiday . Why any other gift on wedding day?

I wasn't planning on getting my mom anything--is this something we are supposed to be doing?

I'm getting my mom a jewelry box that says "today a bride, tomorrow a wife, always your daughter" on the inside.

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You don't have to. It's just a nice thank you if she has done anything to help with your wedding. Similar to how you give your bridesmaids thank you gifts.

We designed and ordered wedding albums for both of our parents after we got our photos back.

View Quoted Comment The wedding industry has really been pushing buying gifts for everyone. And on advertiser supported sites, in their timelines and in many articles they write about it as something you must find time to do. But in fact, except for post ceremony pictures, weddings have never been a time for gifts to parents or other family, so no, it is not something you are supposed to do.

View Quoted Comment That's interesting to hear. What is your perspective on bridesmaids gifts?

View Quoted Comment I have been a BM or MOH a huge number of times, big family and girly profession and hobby groups. And a bride twice. Once before reality TV and registries as we know them existed, and one with them pushing changes. I hate proposal gifts , pressure to say yes, awful embarrassment to both if you say no, and like a bribe, you haven't done anything yet. Let bm bring their own comfortable outfits to get ready in. Robes and getting ready shirts and such are props for brides pictures, not gifts at all. And a lot of brides end up angry if one or more says no, because they will not pose for any cute photo , only partially dressed, that will end up on the internet. Every bp I have been in that had them since the fad began , about a third ( 6 ? ) has had 1-4 other objectors other than me, and it was a lot of baf feeling that did not have to happen, over gifts not really gifts. And yhe same with jewelry to wear in the ceremony. It is chosen to the brides tastes, to complement a dress she chose, not them. One many will never wear again. Not a gift. And though this has happened for 20 plus years ( jewelry gifts, cheap jewelry) it becomes offensive when it turns out bride also means she does NOT want them to wear their own personal jewelry. Which may be sentimental, like a bigger engagement ring than bride's, or tny earings or necklace a person wears with sentiment, or a cross or star of David or religious medal, that bride or MOB wants off, as much as they want new jewelry on. I am of s small uncommon religious group, and remember each of 4 times when a last minute surprise was to wear a cross. A "Gift" that should never have happened. 🙂 I do treasure many individual, thoughtful gifts chosen just for my preferences and interests. As low budget as a CD, or trail maps for hiking, or a pair of kayak paddles or a flea market low rocker stripped and refinished, work rather than dollars. No scented candles or sachets, no expensive wines neither of us drink, no flasks, no gift shop junk just like everyone else, like they can't be bothered. Right in the Goodwill box. For shower and wedding gifts, almost all off registry, we were thrilled will low cost unusual things that showed a lot of thought,and effort. A few , people laughed at, mostly snooty people. Who gives a couple a string hammock? Or a cord of firewood ( 4 fireplaces, snowy winters.) ? Someone who knows and loves you. The rest get 5 totebags, 5 bridesmaid shirts, 15 pillar candles, a padded monogrammed coathanger each, and never understand no one of their 5 BM feels personally thanked.