Making Valentine’s Day, the most romantic day of the year, the BEST day of the year. This is your Ultimate Guide for planning a romantic day for your loved one. Consideration to tradition and to new options.
Beyond the Cupid Myth of Valentine’s Day
The mythology of Cupid and Psyche is compared to the modern-day Beauty and the Beast. Oddly, Cupid is portrayed as the darling young cherub with a bow and arrow. And what does all this mean to us on February 14th of each year? Valentine’s Day, of course!
Cupid represents the God of love, desire, attraction and eroticism. His very image is an emblem of affection. However, society is moving further into the realm of mass marketing and away from mythology. Valentine’s Day is filled with hearts, doilies, flowers, pinks and reds and whites.
A Basic Need
Naturally, our most basic needs include shelter, food and LOVE. Nurturing or a sense of connection with another being. And that is exactly what the promise of Valentine’s Day brings each year. For those lucky enough to have found that special love, this is a day filled with celebration of that love, that precious relationship. A very important day!
Now, how to make that Romantic Valentine’s Day happen for your partner? You want to pamper your lover on this special day. Shower your lover with your gratitude. Put a smile on your lover’s face and warm your lover’s heart with overflowing love. Fulfilling the need to be loved!
Create a Romantic Valentine’s Day
Below are ideas you can incorporate in your strategic planning for the ideal Romantic Valentine’s Day. The combination of the old classics is a NO FAIL for romance. Especially if you are considering a proposal! Every little girl dreams of her proposal. Plus, when your intentions come from love, there is no way you will go wrong!
Plan Ahead
Don’t get caught making last minute arrangements. You will run into booked hotels and packed restaurants with long wait times. Second-rate floral arrangements with end of day delivery. And grocery store chocolates. Being romantic involves a bit more thought process.
Give Your Time
Step 1: Make Reservations… for a Dream Vacation
There is nothing more romantic than running away from your everyday life. A break from the routine of your home schedule is the most freeing experience and absolutely invites opportunity for romance. Especially for couples with children living in the home.
For those fortunate enough to make life-changing incomes, there is a freedom in that lifestyle that allows for travel experiences. For example, performance bloggers need take full advantage of being your own boss with the ability to have a spontaneous schedule.
Prepare a Travel Itinerary for a Dream Vacation
Watch as your loved one is utterly shocked when you display the itinerary to Japan for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games. The travel deals you find using Xcel Trip make this a realistic and reasonable gift. The gift of travel says, I love being with you and I want to see the world with you!
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The Valentine’s Day Weekend Getaway
The Next Best Thing to a Dream Vacation…
The Weekend Getaway isn’t as extravagant as the dream vacation. Nonetheless, for those tied to less flexible work schedules, a weekend getaway serves the same purpose. That escape from the everyday routine for the sake of spending quality time alone with your loved one. As always, with hope and intention of sparking romantic adventure and experiences.
The best part is Xcel trip offers the same travel deals for short distance Weekend Getaways as it does for longer dream vacations. This affordable and innovative new travel system conveniently accepts classic methods of payment. Plus, you can now use your cryptocurrency, or Stakebase, for your payment.
Make a Reservation for 2 for Breakfast in Bed
When getting away just isn’t an option!
Let’s face it! Regardless of your financial status, life happens and there are many reasons travel is not an option for Valentine’s Day. When this happens, make lemonade out of lemons. Or in this case, make heart pancakes from your own pantry!
Far and away, this is my favorite! I love the surprise of breakfast in bed. Most partners love this idea as part of a Romantic Valentine’s Day. This is the quintessential start of the pampering to make your lover feel like Royalty on this day.
Romantic Foods in Bed
The right breakfast ingredients excite those lustful energies creating a very energetic sexual tension. Include foods easily fed to one another, such as chocolate dipped strawberries and whipped cream. It doesn’t take a genius to guess where that leads to next!
Check out the recipes here for healthy meals. Plus, the recipe for the pictured Hazelnut French Toast and Strawberries.
Step 2: Place Your Order for Flowers In ADVANCE!
Surround your lover with Flowers
It’s the perfect time of year to bring your lover a bit of freshness. The dreariness of winter has set in, the thrills and frills of the holidays are behind us. Let Valentine’s Day be a joyous break from the hum drum of the New Year.
The gift of flowers reminds your lover this is a day to celebrate your relationship together. By the way, flowers are not exclusive for women. In fact, men can be deeply touched when someone thinks to send them flowers. Although, women most definitely are the majority of the market’s flower recipients on this Valentine’s Day devoted to love and affection.
Roses are Red…and Other Red and Pink Flowers
ROSES ARE THE MOST POPULAR! However, other popular flower arrangements include red and pink spring blooms of tulips, carnations and iris. Of course, there are daisies, orchids, hydrangeas and lilies too!
Pick the most divine floral arrangement to fill your lover senses.
Step 3: Select the Finest Chocolates and Finest Wines
A natural pairing, chocolate and wine! Both have such long traditions with romance and Valentine’s Day. It’s almost as if 50 percent of Valentine’s Day is about chocolate and wine and the other 50 percent is the rest of it…flowers, intimate breakfasts, elegant dinners, decadent desserts (saving the chocolates and wine for the late-night intimacy)
Setting Up for A Steamy Encounter
Eluding to late-night intimacy, don’t get me wrong! The gift of chocolates and wine is a gift given during the day. Solely for purposes of public affirmation you have achieved couple-dom status. But the indulgence of these fine gifts of smooth and silky chocolate and fine wine that swirls in the glass leaving blissful aromas to sniff and titillate your palate are for those private moments!
If you are at all perplexed by where this is all going, I strongly recommend you grab a Harlequin Romance Novel and read it front to back within the next 24 hours! Don’t worry, they are an easy read and they all have the gist of romance down to a…not really science. Let’s say…a hot, sexy daydream! Fifty Shades of Grey, after all, started somewhere.
Let the Wine Connoisseur in You Come Out
No worries if you haven’t a clue about wine! Just follow the QR code on the bottle to find all the notes you need to be am expert on that wine. The notes include the origin of the grape, the region, the flavors and suggestions for wine and food pairings.
Present your partner with the gift of a WINE MEMBERSHIP.
You probably already know if your loved one prefers white wines or red wines. If not, choose both red and white. The gift of wine membership is incredibly special. Your loved one will receive fine wines delivered directly to your front door EACH month. These wines will surprise and delight your lover as they are shipped from the beautiful vineyards of Napa and Sonoma Valleys of California. Right from the good old U.S. of A. and shipped for people to enjoy globablly!
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Step 4: Surprise The Gem in Your Life with a Real Gem
Bring on the glitz and glamour with exquisite jewelry and jeweled accessories such as cuff links, tiaras and earrings. Dainty anklets, elegant bracelets, debonair wrist watches. Jewelry is for everyone.
Or for those proposals, present that stunning, flawless diamond ring. When you know your loved one is the one you want to spend the rest of your life with, a diamond ring is a classic way of solidifying your intentions. Romance surrounds your environment this time of year; at the stores, in the office and at the restaurants. Even movies are gushing with happily ever after love stories.
Timing and Savings
After the winter holidays, Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day are the hottest times of year to buy jewelry. Especially Valentine’s Day because bridal season is right around the corner in June. I know you want to adorn your loved one with the best and the world is a pearl in an oyster shell. However, typically speaking, saving money while gifting the best is a great feeling! Be on the lookout for incredible Valentine’s Day SAVINGS! Then watch again in June for more savings on wedding planning.
Step 5: Valentine’s Day Dinner and a Movie for Two
An Evening of Romance
There are a million ways you can go with Dinner and a Movie for Two on Valentine’s Day. With enough planning, your options for upscale, fine-dining are at better odds. Along with a top-rated Broadway play.
The Restaurant Selection
As much as I love Red Lobster and Olive Garden, these are not quite what I had in mind. They work too. But to really knock the socks off your loved one and impress them with your romantic efforts, go big. I am recommending one of those fancy Chef restaurants where they have a Maître de rather than a host or hostess. A venue packed with 30 tables for 2, not a packed venue with 30 patrons waiting for tables to be put together for one party.
I suggest the movie house not be the run-down dollar theater in the neighborhood. Go for the gusto. Check out the theater with the reclining seats, Dolby-sound and where a bottle of water costs $10 or better.
Non-Traditional Dinner and a Movie for Two
Aside from going to the Senior Citizen Hour (3:00-4:00pm dinner hour), chances are you will be fighting to beat the crowds and traffic on Valentine’s Day. Plus, the Groundhog might not have brought immediate signs of Spring. Not everyone is motivated to dress up and hit the town with below zero freezing temperatures and more than a foot of snow outside. Therefore, don’t eliminate the trending option of DELIVERY SERVICES!
Delivery Services
That’s right! Look up your options for delivery services. And yes, Red Lobster and Olive Garden both offer delivery! And for more timely service, go ahead and order during the Senior Citizen Hour. I have a few years to go before I qualify as a Senior Citizen. But I paid attention to my elders. Are you kidding me? They know exactly what they are doing going early. They order…and GET the best cuts of those Prime Rib Specials! AND…get early bird savings (where Senior discounts aren’t applicable). Plus, they get the BEST parking spots!
Doordash, GrubHub and UberEats have all been running specials for different restaurants over the winter Holidays and Superbowl Sunday. Surely, they will offer plenty of deals for Valentine’s Day too!
Streaming Videos
As for your movies, Netflix is as hot as it has ever been with streaming videos. If there isn’t a movie catching your interest, go back and binge watch a season of one their blockbuster programs. Same with Hulu, HBO, Amazon Prime and several other networks. Romance when you are cuddled on the sofa in lounge wear eating pork fried rice from a box with a plastic fork is sometimes the quintessential romance!
Step 6: Ending the Night with Intimacy
To help your partner wrap up this perfect day, serve up the sensual chocolate and luxurious wine with a sudsy hot bath and a lovely basket of “skin-o-licious”, hydrating, moisturizing artisan soaps. These all-natural soaps are as delicate to the skin as the petals on the flowers you bought.
The relaxation of the hot water and sips of fine wine will lull your lover into a cloud like state of mind. The spa mineral baths offered with the artisan soaps will fully enhance the overall dream like paradise experience. You will be writing your own ending to a Harlequin Romance! (For that extra bit of help, if needed, this will help you rise to the occasion)
CONGRATULATIONS!
You achieved giving the loved one in your life…
…A ROMANTIC VALENTINE’S DAY!
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BONUS IMAGES:
The following are images of vintage Harlequin Romance Novels from the 60’s to the 80’s. For trivial notation, the older the novel the better chance it involves a nurse.
Nursing was one of the first professions women were allowed to have and the World Wars promoted the need for nurses. Therefore, the woman working outside the home often became involved with the Doctors.
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