Official Valentine's Day 2011 Idea thread

Came here to make a poll and saw this. Poll to come.

 

I actually have to disagree with lunatic to an extent.

It really depends on what your girl finds romantic.

For my wife, I'm sending her and her best friend on a scavenger hunt... I'm leaving roses and letters with certain establishments, as well as cash and instructions.

1 of those establishments will be manicure/pedicure.

1 of those establishments will be shopping for lingerie.

1 of those establishments will be simply shopping for a new jacket.

1 will be lunch.

2 more I haven't quite nailed down yet...



While she is doing all of that all day, I'm going to redecorate our bed room. I took a picture months ago of us holding hands (just our hands). I'm having that blown up and printed onto a canvas to hang over our bed, and doing some other minor things like new sheets candles, etc...

That's the surprise that I'll be working on, while she's out having her day with her best friend.


It's not your typical romantic day, but it's definitely something that will make her realize how much I love her.



The most important factor in whether or not she will be happy with you on Valentine's day... how much thought and effort you put into it.

How happy she is will (generally) be directly proportional to how much thought and effort you put into it. If you put a lot, she's going to be VERY happy.

I'll post later about how one year me and the kids were kidnapped by spies who needed her to kill somebody, and sent her on all kinds of errands to acquire the stuff she would need.

 

I've got a ton of ideas... some of them it's a little late to try now....


I basically created a buried treasure hunt... Print out your treasure hunting instructions (so many paces from so and so tree... etc...) on a piece of printer paper...

Burn the edges of the printer paper with a lighter... so, that the paper isn't straight anymore.

Take a tea bag, heat it in water for about a minute and then let most of the water drip off of the tea bag... and then drag the tea bag over the paper (this will give it a yellow tint similar to old documents).

You can engineer your own way of finding the map.

You can usually get a small treasure chest shaped box at hobby lobby, or such stores. Put your gift in the box... actually bury it. Find the map, and let her lead you on a treasure hunting adventure (it's better if SHE finds the map).

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One year, I enlisted the help of friends. I preprinted her instructions and envelopes, and gave those out to our friends (each envelope had cash for her to use at each step of the way).

I took her to chocodelphia, and we saw her friend, so I told her to go inside, and I would get the kids... so, then we drove off.

Her friend told her that her friends and family had been taken hostage, and she would never see them again (each friend was armed with a water gun filled with an untraceable, near instantaneous poison).

The first envelope let her get some chocolate. Then she went to lunch... (I had told her my car broke down the day before... this is important later). Her and her friend went to lunch, but then my wife had to go to the bathroom... her friend leaves (as her and I planned), and I have my wife's purse.

So, then a waiter comes over with an envelope, with further instructions.

To make a long story short... she gets to have lunch with her friend, buy lingerie, new shoes/boots, etc...

One stop informs that she is to kill someone, and gives her a dart gun tipped in the same poison that the "agents" have been carrying all day.

When she goes to kill her target, I show up and tell her that I got me and the kids safe. I have a shoot out with the "agents" in target parking lot, at which point I kill them all, and then I take her to dinner at Olive Garden.



I'll put some more of my ideas in here later...

 

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It is absolutely Contrived BS.

But that doesn't make it any less fun.

Is it a day that we HAVE to do this kind of stuff? No. Is it a good excuse to do this kind of stuff? Oh, absolutely. And there's nothing wrong with having an excuse to show your significant other just how much you love them.

That's MY opinion though.

 

you didn't delete it fast enough! lol

No need to spend all that money folks. If you need to buy love you're in trouble!

 

Okay here's my story.

My wife had been sending me emails about this Tiffany & Co diamond pendent she's been wanting for a while now, so I thought I would surprise her with it for Valentine's day. I ordered it yesterday on their website and selected the option to have shipped by Valentines day, directly to my wife with a card and everything. Confirmation email says UPS ground yada yada and that it should arrive by 2/14/11 .... well that's not what happened.

My wife calls me about 30mins ago, geeky as a schoolgirl, all choked up & stuff. I was like damn is something wrong, because she sounded all weird. All she kept saying was Thank you thank you thank you and I'm like "thank you for what"? "Oh for my necklace, I love you so much" I'm like damn you already got it, now that's a FAIL of epic proportions.

Well come to find out, Tiffany & Co had upgraded my order to UPS next day Air all by their lonesome, I'm not really tripping because better early than late but now they wrecked my entire build-up I was planning to do come Valentine's day. LOL

Just thought I would share

 

I got my wife a necklace from kays and a tattoo she had been wanting. I know the tattoo part is "different" but it had sentimental meaning and its a gift that she will have forever

 

Bought flowers from Costco (but I let her pick them out), plus a big plastic jar of choc covered raisins (we just love those things). Then took her to the casino and blew some $$$ then tried out their new buffet, which I must say was quite awesome. During dessert she said, "You didn't get me a card too, did you?"

I rolled my eyes, "Of course I got you a card, Honey."

"Awww... from Target?"

(Rolls eyes again)

"Oh Honey, you're so sweet" <3 <3 smooch <3 <3

And that's what 25 years of being married to your BFF sounds like.

 

My wife let slip that she's getting me Dead Space 2 for Valentine's day... That's some serious love right there.

 

Honestly, I am a pretty simple girl.

Yes, I like nice things...I expect nice things but Valentine's day is a holiday i hate. Not because i dont have someone its generally the one day men go out of their way to make their wives/gf feel special(even more then Xmas, Anniversary and birthdays) and the rest of the 364 days are just any old day...

But i've had some wonderful valentine's memories

1)I was at basketball game and a boyfriend had a lovely message on the big screen(Cliche i know)
2)The airplane banner
and most recently V-day 2010
I did something i had always wanted and never had the opportunity to

A picnic...
Simple as that.
That is probably the best memory i have of Valentine's day. Something special like that where it didnt cost a lot of money and it allowed you one on one time together

This year, Build-a-bear
So much fun!

 

Also, it's cute some of the ideas the hubby's have here

 

I dont have anything super fancy planned. but I decided to clean up the entire house for her.

EDIT:

and im grilling up some steaks, but i do the cooking normally so thats not a huge deal (she likes steaks, im more of a salad and pasta person lol)

 

They actually have a term for that... it's called "Choreplay"...

 

We had a nice curry, drank a bottle of wine and watched a film. Now mrsbluenova is asleep on the sofa