If there’s one person in your life who deserves a thorough spoiling, surely it’s your mum.
Luckily the perfect opportunity to treat her is coming up on March 19, this year’s date for Mother’s Day.
When do other countries celebrate Mother’s Day?
Also known as Mothering Sunday, March 19 will be a UK-wide celebration, shortly followed by the Middle East on March 21.
Meanwhile countries like the US, Canada, Australia and India honour mums and mother figures on May 14. These countries always celebrate Mother’s Day on the second Sunday of May.
Why does the UK celebrate Mother’s Day on a different day?
Our dates differ to the rest of the world because they are linked to Easter, which shifts slightly depending on the lunar calendar. Either way, there’s not long to go to think of the perfect gift for your number one gal.
What to buy for Mother’s Day
If you’ve been racking your brain for the right present, a hamper never fails to delight. Packed with all sorts of goods, from chocolate and tea to the latest beauty products that she would never splash out on for herself, a honey-coloured hamper brimming with goodies offers the perfect treat and shows her just how much you care.
Plus, they can be delivered straight to her door to save you hauling it over yourself. Paired with a lovely bunch of flowers and a natter over a cuppa (or something stronger, if you like), there will be no doubt as to who’s her favourite - yes, even if you’re an only child.
Mother’s Day is a lovely opportunity not only to treat your mum, but all the mother figures in your life: aunts, grandmothers and family friends deserve a shout out too.
The good news is that there’s a vast selection of carefully curated hampers to shop, from independent sellers to luxury brands and crucially, with price points across the board.
Best Mother’s Day hampers for 2023 at a glance
- Best for the mother of all foodie spoiling: Fortnum & Mason The Mother’s Day Tea Hamper, £80, F&M
- Best for floral freshness: Harvey Nichols Blooming Lovely Mother's Day Hamper, £145, Harvey Nichols
- Best for instant indulgence: Ladurée Mother’s Day Hamper, £105, Ladurée
- Best for self-care: The White Company Wellness Hamper, £110, The White Company
- Best for little luxury: Cartwright & Butler The Mother's Day Fizz Hamper, £66, Cartwright & Butler
- Best for pampering: Charlotte Tilbury skincare and beauty hampers, prices vary, Charlotte Tilbury
- Best for cool labels: Selfridges Selection Mother’s Day gift box, £185, Selfridges
- Best for sweet indulgence: Cutter & Squidge Self Care Hamper, £69.99, Cutter & Squidge
- Best for a well-earned soak: Neal's Yard Remedies Mum's Bath Time Escape, £50.15 Neal's Yard Remedies
We’ve rounded up the best out there to help finding the right one for your mum a breeze.
Whether she’s a foodie or a beauty fiend, there’s something for every kind of mum.
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Fortnum & Mason The Mother’s Day Tea Hamper
Best for: the mother of all foodie spoiling
The mother of all hampers comes from the company that does them best: Fortnum & Mason. The Royal warrant order is an ideal port of call when you’re looking for a lavish gift to bestow: take this Mother’s Day wicker hamper as a prime example.
The dainty huntsman-style wicker basket, stamped with the signature F&M in black, is packed with gourmet treats to take her afternoon cuppa up a notch. We’re talking teas, delightful little Pink Marc de Champagne Truffles, handmade florentines swathed in pink ruby chocolate, rich Blackcurrant & Cassis curd, and a tin of posh shortbread rounds.
There’s also a six-piece Mother’s Day hamper (£100, dispatch from March 7) for those with a bit more to splash or siblings who can club together.
Buy now £80.00, F&M
Harvey Nichols Blooming Lovely Mother’s Day Hamper
Best for: floral freshness
Celebrate spring as well as Mother’s Day with Harvey Nichols’ hamper, which feels like the season in a box. The treat-packed black wicker basket is a floral dream with pink gin and a bottle of Prosecco Rosé rose-flavoured Turkish Delight, fruit and nut biscuits and a jar of delicious acacia honey, fresh from the beehive. Cheesy nibbles offer a tasty savoury note. A hamper that lives up to every word of its name; bloomin lovely.
Shop all Harvey Nicks hampers here.
Buy now £145.00, Harvey Nichols
Ladurée Mother's Day Hamper
Best for: instant indulgence
A posh treat is bound to go down well with your madre, especially if she likes her sweets on the fancier side (and let’s face it, who doesn't?). Head to French confectioner Ladurée's virtual emporium, where you can find all sorts of beautifully packaged morsels guaranteed to make her smile.
If she’s the picky sort, best to opt for one of the DIY hampers, which start at £100 for four products (or go bigger with six for £160). Delivered in the brand's pastel boxes, the smaller of the two includes a gift box of eight macarons, a lovely pot of jam, tea and a small box of chocolates. That said, if you need to order a gift in a hurry, the rose pink Mother’s Day hamper (pictured) won’t fail to hit the mark.
From start to finish, simply delightful.
Buy now £105.00, Ladurée
Charlotte Tilbury skincare and beauty hampers
Best for: pampering
If your mum has yet to try beauty guru Charlotte Tilbury’s eponymous line, use Mother’s Day as a chance to make introductions.
The brand is helping to spoil mums everywhere with a build your own hamper; there’s one for skincare, lipstick and mascara. Simply pick four products from the selection offered, and they’ll be delivered to your mum’s doorstep ready to surprise her.
If you’re not sure about makeup, our money is on the skincare set, where you can choose from a cleansing product, a mask or exfoliator, eye care item, oil (the new Collagen Superfusion Facial Oil) or serum and magic moisturiser. Magical.
Prices vary depending on hamper contents.
Buy now, Charlotte Tilbury
Selfridges Selection Mother’s Day gift box
Best for: cool labels
If you’re really looking to spoil your mum this March 19, look no further than Selfridges. One for younger mums with a penchant for labels, it’s filled with beauty and bubbles.
Think a bottle of Selfridges Selection Brut Champagne, a luxury Diptyque Baies scented candle, cosy Johnstons cashmere socks, Slip slipsilk sleep mask eye mask, and a Selfridges Selection chocolate box to round things off. It all makes for one very happy mother.
Buy now £185.00, Selfridges
Cartwright & Butler The Mother’s Day Fizz Hamper
Best for: little luxury
New this year from Cartwright & Butler is The Mother’s Day Fizz Hamper. It’s a nice option whether you’re treating her to a spa day or fancy restaurant booking, or simply to send in the post to enjoy. Behind the special Mother’s Day sleeve and dove grey box, she’ll find a tasty Praline Chocolate Heart Selection with a bottle of Beaupre Champagne to bring out the flavours. Be firm: she must enjoy them all alone.
Cartwright & Butler also offers a bespoke hamper service, so you can pick your basket size and pack it full with nibbles and tipples you know she loves best.
Buy now £66.00, Cartwright & Butler
The White Company Wellness Hamper
Best for: self-care
This may looks like a hamper but really it’s the gift of ten minutes relaxation (but hopefully more) for your looks-after-everyone-but-herself mum.
The White Company is made to restore - or indeed create - a wellness routine for her, containing pampering treats like a candle, shower products and luxury sleep mists and oil.
Bliss in a basket.
Buy now £110.00, The White Company
Cutter & Squidge Self Care Hamper
Best for: sweet indulgence
Whether you’re there to make her breakfast in bed or you’re meeting later in the day, leave her with a little indulgence in the form of Cutter & Squidge’s Self Care Hamper. The box comes packed with things to make her feel truly spoiled, from home fragrance to bath products and tea and biscuits. The handmade food items are completely vegetarian.
Buy now £69.99, Cutter & Squidge
Neal's Yard Remedies Mum's Bath Time Escape
Best for: a well-earned soak
Mums deserve more than five minutes peace, and with this gift set from Neal's Yard, she'll have an excuse for even longer.
Containing all the bath and body products needed to destress and relax, Neal's Yard will transform her bathroom into a serene spa. This set includes a soothing bath oil, bath salts, foaming bath soak and a lavendar essential oil. Use before bedtime and prepare to welcome sweet dreams.
This set won't come in a gift box, so it's worth having it delivered yourself and putting in a nice basket to present to her yourself. The quality of these products speak for themselves.
Buy now £50.15, Neal's Yard Remedies
GAIL’s Mother’s Day Cream Tea Hamper
If your old lady lights up at the mention of a cream tea, make her day with GAIL’s bountiful hamper. Containing everything you need for an indulgent afternoon spread, it contrains raspberry iced buns, rhubarb and ricotta cakes, scones galore and Rodda’s Clotted Cream and a jar of GAIL’s Strawberry Jam. Modestly priced it’s available to buy from March 9. All you’ll need to do is crack out the nice china and stick the kettle on.
Buy now £33.00, GAIL’s
