Mother’s Day is fast approaching and unless you want the wrath of a crying mum next weekend, you’d better start thinking about gifts. If you’ve got her chocolates for the last 6 years running, maybe it’s time to break the mould, think beyond the service station on the drive up to see her and get her something that will actually make her feel special. Click through the gallery for 7 gift ideas that will make her feel truly spoilt and win you major brownie points. Bring tissues and prepare for tears – good ones this time.
1. Afternoon tea at Peggy Porschen
Spend an indulgent afternoon together catching up over the Laurent-Perrier Afternoon Tea at Peggy Porschen. Developed exclusively for Mother’s Day and available for £32 per person at Peggy Porschen’s Belgravia parlour, the tea includes mini strawberry and champagne cupcakes, red velvet cakes, and hand-piped ‘Mum’ cookies, along with a cheeky glass of Laurent-Perrier Cuvée Rosé Champagne. We guarantee you’ll be in her good books after that.
**2. Special mum bouquets from Selfridges **
There are flowers then there are these flowers. Scrap the service station blooms you usually pick up last minute en route to the family home and treat her to something far more special this year. The Selfridges Selection Flowers range has a handful of different ‘mum bouquets, all of which are bound to make her weep. Our favourite is the beautiful white Astound mum bouquet, with avalanche roses and double-flowered lisianthus (£75).
3.Book a spa day
For a gift that we’ve no doubt you’ll appreciate just as much she does, book the two of you in for a spa day. Along with being royally pampered to every last skin cell, it’s an opportunity to spend mum and daughter quality time together, catching up on life whilst getting pruney in the Jacuzzi. Just make sure to swerve the conversations away from marriage/ mortgages/ children or else it could all go pear-shaped! For ultimate relaxation we love and SenSpa at Carey Manor, New Forest.
4. Book tickets for the Northern Ballet
Mums dream of being taken to the ballet so why not make her year and book tickets. To save you doing a whole lot of research to find out what’s on where, let us suggest Northen Ballet’s Great Gatsby, which is in London and Norwich through March.
5. Personalised stationary
Have a reputation for last minute gifts, or even for forgetting gifts all together? Prove that this year’s Mother’s Day gift wasn’t a Sunday morning affair by creating something personalised — i.e. required time! We love Marby & Elm’s bright and beautiful stationary, and we’ve no doubt mum will too.
6. Book a masterclass
Mums are good at a lot of things but that’s not to mean there’s not scope to be even better. Gift generously this year and book her in for a masterclass that you know she’ll appreciate. If she’s into baking, PAUL has just launched a new series of authentic French breadmaking masterclasses that would be right up her street, or for more adventurous mum’s (who aren’t scared of heights) book the Sake & Sushi 101 at SUSHISAMBA, which take place once a month.
7. Personalised wrapping paper
Most Mums love soppy, especially when there’s photographic soppiness involved so for extra brownie points and extra hugs, wrap your gift in personalised wrapping paper! Log on to Wrap.me and handpick your Instagram pics to make the best paper ever!
