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Valentine's Day – 5 tips for the perfect day with your lover

On February 14, it's Valentine's Day. Need some inspiration to surprise your loved one? Are you still looking for the ultimate interpretation for the day of love? Discover everything you need for Valentine's Day now. 5 Tips for the perfect day with your lover.

What is Valentine's Day?

Every year in the Netherlands Valentine's Day is celebrated on 14 February. The day is also called the day of love. On that day, lovers spoil each other with gifts such as flowers, chocolate and beautiful lingerie. Since the 1990s, it has mainly been a commercial day where all major companies such as Hünkemöller, Hema, Bijenkorf, Kruidvat, Action and many more earn a lot of money.

And that's a shame, because love shouldn't be commercial. Valentine's Day should be a day to show your partner that you care. And that does not necessarily have to be with an (expensive) gift. True love cannot be expressed in money or gifts.

Valentine – 5 tips for the perfect day with your lover

Do you really want to surprise your lover this year? Don't arrive with the standard presents? Then the following 5 tips for the perfect day with your lover are for you.

1. Creative experiences

Your partner means everything to you and you want to show that. Then you can't come up with a standard gift for a man or a nice smell of which she may already have one. As nice as it is, a little creativity shows that you have really thought about the gift and that you really care about the other person.

Gifts for adventurers

  • Going on an adventure together? That is possible during a survival weekend. Or opt for an exciting overnight stay in a special place. For the tough guys:go camping in nature, just in a tent!
  • Give a game of paintball or laser tag as a gift
  • Book a weekend trip to the Ardennes
  • Go ziplining together or spend an afternoon at a climbing park

Gifts for the romantic

  • Give a massage for two as a gift
  • There is nothing more romantic than a photo shoot for two. Actually, these are two gifts in one, because in addition to the photo shoot itself, you will also have nice photos as a lasting memory
  • Give a dance course as a gift. Choose a fiery tango course or ballroom dancing, whichever you find more romantic

2. Give a weekend away as a gift

Do you want to surprise your partner with more than a fun day? Then give a weekend away as a gift. You can then use the weekend to surprise your partner on several occasions. You can choose from romantic classics or out of the box ideas for a weekend away for Valentine's Day.

Romantic classics
  • Book a short city trip, for example to Paris, the city of love
  • Choose a wellness weekend away

Out of the box inspiration for a weekend away with Valentine
  • Choose an overnight stay in a special place, for example a tree house, boat or a crane
  • There is nothing more relaxing than a night away in an adults-only hotel
  • Completely outsource the preparations and be surprised with a surprise trip, which can be booked at Srps.me, among others
  • Make it a weekend away in an old Volkswagen bus
  • Go over the top and book a super deluxe hotel such as the Kurhaus hotel in Scheveningen
  • Take the plane for a short city break that is not so obvious

3. Valentine's Day:surprise your partner with special gifts

Of course presents are part of it on February 14th. Expensive gifts are not necessary at all. It's the little things that show that you care and think about the other person that makes a much more impact than an expensive gift from the store. Your partner will surely be endeared by your attentiveness and declarations of love.

Surprise with sweet things
  • Hide the favorite candies in your partner's pockets or put a few in the lunch box or bag. In any case, in a place where your partner will find it before the end of the day
  • Surprise your lover with a homemade cake in the shape of a heart. Or bake these delicious heart puffs for him or her. It is not for nothing that it is said that love goes through the stomach
  • Start and/or end the day with a portion of romance:arrange for a romantic breakfast in bed or a nice candlelight dinner

Surprise with a loving message
  • Write a love letter and clamp it between the windshield wipers
  • Leave a loving message on the voicemail
  • Make a DIY Valentine's Day card with a romantic message

4. Immortalize your love together

Every love story is unique and special, including yours and your partner's. You can capture this love forever in different ways. Below you will find some inspiration for this.

Romantic Diary

Buy a nice notebook or diary and tell your partner how you got to know each other. What you appreciate about the other. Make the book even more fun by writing anecdotes in it, pasting photos and, for example, printing beautiful quotes that you paste in. That way it becomes your own love story in pictures and in writing.

A personal love song

Do you have a song that means a lot to both of you? Nice! Then you can get started and personalize the song. This is perfectly possible if you play an instrument yourself. Are you not that musical? No worries. Take the instrumental version of the song and write appropriate lyrics to it. You can then transfer this while the song is playing in the background.

5. Celebrate love all year round

Why limit yourself to Valentine's Day? Why not prove all year round that you think about and love the other person? With a little creativity you can surprise your partner all year round.

Supplies

  • Beautiful glass or a nice box
  • 52 Pieces of paper
  • Pen

Write a beautiful message, a compliment, a quote or a sweet poem on the 52 pieces of paper. Fold the pieces and put them in the glass jar or in the box. Give this as a Valentine's gift. Now your loved one can pick up a note every week and read a sweet message from you. If that's not romantic!

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