2Nd Wedding Gift Ideas-help!!

A restaurant gift certificate would be nice. Then you could always volunteer to watch the kids.

You could get a gift certificate to a nice hotel or resort for a weekend, some places even have adult only hotels, super nice ones, a certificate for a nice restaurant near the hotel and an offer to keep the kids so they can have a mini-honeymoon.

When my & my husband married, it was both of out 2nd time around, and some of our nicest gifts were nice photo frames. They are so expensive and some frineds took pictures of our dinner & party and then framed them. It was very nice.

When my cousin did this I got her a mantel clock from "things Remembered" they engraved it with a really neat saying that related to the time piece. (I don't remember the saying) but it was a standard saying they put on a lot of time clocks.

Or my alltime favorite is always a picture frame. You could get one with 3 slots - large middle one for them - and the 2 side opening for the 2 boys.

Have fun with it!

Get them a gift certificate to their favorite restaurant tickets to a concert etc., and an IOU for babysitting for that evening. It might work better for them than a weekend away.
If they bowl, golf, etc., you could get them a certificate for golfing or bowling for a day or so.
Or, if you really want to spend money get them passes to a place like King's Island, Six Flags, etc., for a day for all of them, children included.
I don't know if this helps, hope it does.

Get them a gift certificate to a photographer...a family portrait is always nice, they will have it forever. Or they could go just the 2 of them. Good luck!

You can schedule her for a night of pampering with a facial, hand scrubs and foot soaks with me! I'd use my Arbonne Products, but wouldn't do a sales presentation or anything. You could have it just be the two of you, or surprise her with a bunch of her family and friends. The possibilies are endless!

for heaven saked take the kids for the weekend.K.

For my parent's anniversary once I got them a romantic picnic set. With plastic wine glasses and everything. They loved it and use it for time together. I've since used the idea for wedding gifts and it goes over really well. It's something you can get creative with as well. With the cloth, napkins, wine, or old fashioned coke bottles, etc.

How about a gift certificate to a local spa for the day or half day? I WOULD KILL for that! Fun to have my spouse there too; something he'd enjoy, as well.

I am a very big advocate of gift cards, especially right now when times are crazy. They're very handy, and you know they'll get something they actually need or want. You could always find a creative way to wrap it, like maybe you could buy them something like lingerie or a funny book about marriage, and stick it in the inside.

I agree with the gift card to dinner, spa, babysitting. I have found with my husbnad that time and plans are what we don't seem to be able to make.

How about getting them (or chipping in to get them) a photographer for either the actual wedding day or the reception party day. We did this for a cousin of mine who was having a justice of the peace wedding at a local park but couldn't afford a photographer. They absolutely love the pictures that were taken all over the park...and who doesn't want to remember their wedding day or being surrounded by their family and friends at their reception. :)

If they already have everything they need what about making some kind of donation in their name as a gift to maybe a homeless shelter or a shelter for battered women. I know a lady well she was my supervisor and when she remairried they had 2 households of things. They requested if you really have to give a gift then make it something that a homeless shelter or a battered women's shelter could use. They took two van loads themselves to I think it was the drop in center in downtown Cincinnati. They also included food. Made them feel good and a lot of strangers too. You could arrange for her to go to a day spa and get pampered either right before the wedding or directly after. Do they like to work out maybe a guest temporary membership at a gym.

I ditto what Pam R. said. Some people feel funny about accepting gifts for a second marriage, so scale it down a little to just a nice dinner with free babysitting.

You could get them a gift certificate to a nice sit down restaurant and a "coupon" for babysitting so they can enjoy and nice dinner alone.