parent gifts?

I am trying to figure out what to give/present to my parents around wedding time. We're doing a Chinese-styled banquet rehersal dinner. I want to appreciate both sets of parents somehow with a gift(and I admit it, I want to "present something" in front of the other guests and I am hoping to make them cry, ha ha. Do I sound like Monica from Friends when she wanted to make her parents cry with her toast?).

I am feeling very emotional about my parents, all that they've done and how much they've supported me throughout this whole wedding process.

Does anyone have any ideas or things to share of what they did? It doesn't have to be for parents- any type of thank-you gift?

I was thinking of getting their wedding picture painted onto a larger canvas- but I am not sure if they'd even want that. ha! (or know where to hang it)

thanks ladies- :)

how about framed side-by-side pictures of you as a child and then one of you in your wedding gown?? and engrave the frame "from your little girl"

you're taking your wedding pics before the wedding right??

What a fabulous idea! You could do one for the inlaws of their son as well.

what is your price range? FI and i are planning on sending my parents on a weekend trip to carmel or somewhere. they're essentially paying for 80% of the wedding, and they helped us put a down payment down AND furnish our new place. so we figured it's the least we can do. if you can't do the whole weekend maybe just a hotel room for a couple nights at a b&b or a spa treatment. where are you located? yoshi's in the bay area is a popular/snazzy jazz/sushi restaurant. entertainment and food (pricey though). also teatro zinzanni's is a dinner theater event on the wharf (san francisco) that is 'occasion worthy' (though again kinda pricey).

Your idea to give them a canvas print of their wedding photo isn't a bad idea. What kind of condition is their wedding photo? For my parents and ILs, their wedding photos were faded and spotted from years of neglect. As a pre-wedding thank you gift, I scanned them and basically restored each photo in Photoshop getting rid of the spots, water damage, fading, whatever. I reprinted them on nice photo paper and framed them in an elegant mat and frame. I didn't go really big, just a 5x7 photo in an 11x14 frame. My MIL said she liked the size and it was easier to find a place on the wall for it. It was a very personal gift and they all seemed to really like them.

Good luck!