Date ideas to add romance, fun and variety to your relationship. Create a romantic date night using the ideas below and enjoy your journey as a couple!
Happy Valentine's Day
Happy Valentine’s Day!!
Think back to hanging a box on the front of your school desk and waiting in anticipation for that cute boy or girl to drop one in. Remember the surprise and thrill when it happened?! Create a Valentine’s day box, just like the ones we had in grade school, and fill it up with a little valentine every day for a week leading up to Valentine’s Day.
Send her Not your normal bouquet of roses! Beginning with 11 days before Valentine’s Day, bring her a rose every day until Valentine’s Day. 11 roses means that she is the most treasured and loved person in your life! And, you can play with the colors. Red means “I love you”. Lavender means “love at first sight”. Orange means “passionate desire”. White means “a pure love” and Pink means “thank you”. I would suggest giving red roses every day for 7 days telling her you love her and perhaps be more specific each time. Then begin to add in the colors because she is your everything! Tell her what the color means when you hand it to her. “Pink means thank you and I want to thank you for being the most amazing wife to me”….
1/2 bag of choc chips, microwave for 30 sec intervals until just beginning to melt.
Add 1/4 to 1/2 cup of heavy cream.
Continue to microwave until a nice creamy consistency.
If you add the heavy cream it will keep the chocolate softer longer.
Cut up to bite size: strawberries, bananas, pineapple, marshmellows and/or pound cake, or whatever you like dunked in chocolate!
Pour chocolate into a bowl and place on large platter. Surround chocolate with dunking pieces.
Play a game: “Favorites” Take turns dunking a piece into chocolate and ask “what’s my favorite……?” color, pet name, movie, etc. If he gets it right, he gets the chocolate. If he gets it wrong, you get to eat it. Take turns until all the chocolate is gone. Of course you could make this game a bit more intimate…. if he gets it wrong, you get the chocolate and he has to take a piece off… (use imagination here). Enjoy!
Publically declare your love – over loud speaker in Walmart, at the ball field, at a hockey game, in a restaurant.. Use your imagination to say I love you and say it loudly!
Picture Fun
Photo Shoot Date! Get outside for this one! Pack a picnic dinner or grab a pizza and hike or drive to your fav spot. Using your phone or digital camera take off and shoot this beautiful foliage, sunflowers, whatever you see, come together & compare photos. Upload a few on Facebook and have your friends vote on the best photo! Enjoy the fun competition – spending time together makes you both winners!
Using about 10 sheets of poster board, present him/her with a message she’ll never forget! “Remember when we first met?” “this is how you have changed my life” etc. Tell him/her how you feel by putting 3 or 4 words on each board.
Quick Fire Dessert Challenge Date
Take all the baking ingredient you have and put them out on the table. Take 10 minutes to preview and find a recipe. Then, ready set bake! Take 60 minutes to make a beautiful and tasty dessert using only what we have in the kitchen! Make at least 2 servings, one for spouse and one for you. Crack open a bottle of wine and enjoy your desserts together. Take it farther! We make 3 dessert servings – an extra one for a neighbor to taste. Take pictures and put them on Facebook for your friends to vote on appearance and ask a neighbor do taste test!
Bring her breakfast in bed on a beautiful tray.
Picnic Fun Romantic Dinner Idea
Pack a romantic meal of wine, cheese, grapes…blanket, tunes to slow dance to….and enjoy a picnic together.
Wine & Dine Her at home Include her favorites or if you want to try some wonderful recipes combining romance and food check out www.seductionmeals.com, www.thefairkingdom.com or my favorite so far from Frugal Foodie at http://www.mint.com/blog/saving/romantic-meals-for-10-dollars-or-less-02092011/. Create the romantic atmosphere with candles, pretty dishes, cloth napkins, personalized place card with an endearing pet name or “my beautiful wife”, champagne or a nice bottle of wine (non-alcoholic variety is just as good or Sprite in fancy glasses), dress up and put on some music and escort her in and pull out her chair and serve her. Cooking not your thing? That’s ok, cheat! Try a service like Just Dine In or Black Tie Catering or put that favorite take out on those pretty dishes and throw the Styrofoam away before she gets there! Just smile when she says how absolutely wonderful it is! She will be thrilled that you took the time to set it up and as you stare lovingly in each other’s eyes the food will be the last thing on your minds! When dinner is over, allow her to enjoy the last remnants of the meal while you clean up. She’ll probably take the opportunity to tell you how fabulous you are! Give her the floor and listen to whatever she has to say. When you’re all finished tidying up, take her by the hand and ask her to dance. Enjoy the rest of the evening, she will be all yours!
Write her a love letter, describe how she makes you feel.
The Honeymoon Suite
Turn your bedroom into a romantic honeymoon suite with rose petals, chilled champagne and chocolate covered strawberries..line the path from the door to your bedroom with more rose petals or candles and send a personal invitation to a romantic evening.
Kidnap Your Honey
Kidnap him/her from work and whisk away to a B&B or hotel suite.
Text her daily with adoration or love texts.
- Heather and Curtis, a Playful Journey couple
Your Love Story
Want to write your Love Story? Or show us a perfect date of your own? It is worth telling! Send it to susan.ryerson@playfuljourney.com with a photo and it may be published on this website!
