Mother of the Groom Outfit: Trousers

How about John Lewis? Hundreds of brands all under one roof, you're bound to find something there! xXx

My mum is much the same, hates shopping for herself always quite restricted by cash she's of a similar age and debenhams is my fail less shop for her lots of different ranges under one roof at different budgets and something my mum always comments on the music isn't too loud lol be better if it was in a big branch as you'll have a full range of choices

How about inviting her out for lunch In your local town ( if it's a big one with lots of clothing stores) and casually pop I to some shops nothing too mind blowing for her, just a brouse and maybe you can pick out some suit trousers and see if she likes them?

I can't stand clothes shopping, I do it once every few months, even got my dress online because of the pure hate of it. It just stresses me out, I'm much better at online shopping as I can do it from the comfort of my own home.

I would suggest a department store like Debenhams or John Lewis too - they usually have a cafe so you could stop for a coffee and cake break if things were getting stressful. Debenhams do decent jewellery for brides so you could always use that to take the focus off solely clothes shopping for her.

If she is happy to look online (but not buy), you could always help her work out which trousers and top to try on before you you to the shop - that way you'd know exactly which area to head to when you get there and have to less instore browsing time.

When my cousins have married we always had this problem with our grandma, who would have been in her 80's. She had got to the age where she didn't go shopping much. We used to book her in with the personal shopper at Debenhams. They are great because she didn't even have to wander around the shop! They put her in a private room and they go fetch stuff they think will suit her. It's stress free! All you need to do is choose who is going to go with her!

Oooh I hadn't thought of Debenhams personal shopper service - good shout!

Thanks for all the advice so far ladies, I think I knew all of it somewhere deep down, just worrying about making sure she's happy on the day and not stressed out by shopping. ?

Debenhams personal shopper is definitely the way forward! I did this a few weeks ago with a voucher I was given for Christmas and it was great! The lady asked me a few questions about what I liked/didn't like, height, size etc, the disappeared for 10 mins and came back with ten dresses for me to try on. Some I needed a different size in and off she went to get it for me. After I'd picked my dresses, I told her I was going to meet OH in the pub inu new dress, so she took me downstairs and arranged for Benefit to give me a makeover!

I cannot rate this service highly enough and I plan to use it for my mum and FMIL too.

My future MIL is exactly the same. She wanted to wear a trouser suit but is no good at shopping. So I took her to a local retail park and we went to Debenhams and Next and that was all. Debenhams is ideal as they have so much in one place. We managed to sort it easily! x