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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about an electronic picture frame?  You can preload childhood pictures of your son, and current pictures of the couple maybe even conspire with her mother to get pictures from her childhood.  (just them, though - there may be times they won’t want to look over and see you or other extended family members looking back.  If they want you in the rotation, they can add you in). Then, over time, they can add pictures of the life they build together.  [/quote]

OMG. Could some young people please chime in??? No one besides my 80 year old mother wants this gift.[/quote]

What is your suggestion?  [/quote]

Probably doesn’t have one.

Ok, young people, what would this bride like?  Op said she likes to garden.  Something to plant in honor of their wedding day?[/quote]

My brilliant idea is to stop acting total strangers who are clearly much older online, and to simply ASK HER what she would want. Then LISTEN TO AND RESPECT what she says.

She may say a set of top-tier culinary knives. She may say a sculpture. She may say nothing, truly. She may say a trip to a luxury spa. She may say money to help pay off grad school loans. She may say an expensive camera. Whatever she says, you listen to her. Even if it is nothing.[/quote]

Your suggests are worse.  Can you imagine asking someone what they would like as a gift and they said,  how about a sculpture?  Or ask for a set of top-tier culinary knives as a personal gift?   Oh, that was your gift for the bridal shower?  Sorry.

And would anyone here really ask her soon to be MIL for money when MIL asked for suggestions on a personal gift?   [/quote]

If you know you know that truly excellent knives do not often make it onto registries, because they are so expensive and no, they cannot be purchased at Macy’s or Williams-Sonoma.

And how odd for you to roll with other people suggesting getting her a painting she may not want, but somehow a specific sculpture she actually asks for is a bad idea? OK.

The point is to actually ask the person you are allegedly trying to please. [/quote]

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