Share with me your best ideas for sharing Valentines
January 28, 2015 3:50 PM Subscribe
Have you and your significant other ever had a rad valentines that involved collaborative planning, surprise AND romance? Tell me everything!
So..I'm trying to think of scenarios that can preserve the fun and romantic nature of having each of us surprise the other in some fashion, while also being pragmatic (i.e. making sure we actually have plans that we'll both enjoy). We've discussed going out to eat, and while we could both simply pick a place.. well, that kinda seems boring, because there's no element of surprise. As an alternative, I thought maybe we could both pick a general place we want to spend Valentines weekend, one of us picks a bed and breakfast and the other chooses where we'll eat.
Can you help me think of other awesome, collaborative ideas that I can propose to my gal over wine tonight? Hurry: she'll be home in an hour..
So..I'm trying to think of scenarios that can preserve the fun and romantic nature of having each of us surprise the other in some fashion, while also being pragmatic (i.e. making sure we actually have plans that we'll both enjoy). We've discussed going out to eat, and while we could both simply pick a place.. well, that kinda seems boring, because there's no element of surprise. As an alternative, I thought maybe we could both pick a general place we want to spend Valentines weekend, one of us picks a bed and breakfast and the other chooses where we'll eat.
Can you help me think of other awesome, collaborative ideas that I can propose to my gal over wine tonight? Hurry: she'll be home in an hour..
Here is a fun and romantic trust exercise you can do that will be plenty memorable. You will both need to be able to drive a car. Pack a picnic lunch (no alcohol) and blanket, and go out for the afternoon together in the car. The passenger is blindfolded, and tells the driver what turns to take at each intersection. Drive for a half hour, park the car, and eat the first course of food outside wherever you end up. The seeing person feeds the non-seeing person, and asks questions about where the non-seeing person thinks they are. When you are done eating, you can take off the blindfold, and the person might be very surprised about where you ended up. An alley, a park, someone's planting strip, a traffic circle? Then you switch drivers and do the same process for the next half hour. Take plenty of photos.
posted by oxisos at 4:18 PM on January 28, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by oxisos at 4:18 PM on January 28, 2015 [4 favorites]
surprise the other in some fashion...collaborative ideas
It's hard for me to imagine how you could satisfy both of those conditions simultaneously. Some of the most romantic times for Mr. DrGail and I were when we did something totally out of character, totally out of the blue. A large part of what made it so romantic and memorable was the spontaneity. So maybe one of you picks the destination and the other chooses what to do? After all, wouldn't Putt Putt golf or an afternoon in the playground near some couples resort be, in the end, more exciting than doing the whole couples-resort thing? Of course, I still think that Mr. DrGail's spontaneous marriage proposal in a dive bar we wandered into one Friday night was ever so much better than the fancy dinner thing he had been planning.
posted by DrGail at 5:32 PM on January 28, 2015 [2 favorites]
It's hard for me to imagine how you could satisfy both of those conditions simultaneously. Some of the most romantic times for Mr. DrGail and I were when we did something totally out of character, totally out of the blue. A large part of what made it so romantic and memorable was the spontaneity. So maybe one of you picks the destination and the other chooses what to do? After all, wouldn't Putt Putt golf or an afternoon in the playground near some couples resort be, in the end, more exciting than doing the whole couples-resort thing? Of course, I still think that Mr. DrGail's spontaneous marriage proposal in a dive bar we wandered into one Friday night was ever so much better than the fancy dinner thing he had been planning.
posted by DrGail at 5:32 PM on January 28, 2015 [2 favorites]
One awesome date I heard of was a scavenger hunt where each clue led from a spot the couple had been while dating to another, like "find the place we first kissed" etc. It was planned so there was a lunch spot for lunch, a theatre for a movie, etc. A highlights reel but a date too.
posted by warriorqueen at 6:29 PM on January 28, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by warriorqueen at 6:29 PM on January 28, 2015 [2 favorites]
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posted by chocotaco at 3:58 PM on January 28, 2015 [1 favorite]