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I heard a commercial on the radio this morning as I was driving to work that was encouraging listeners to make their Valentine's Day dinner reservations. At first, I was surprised -- it still seems a little early for this, but I guess Februrary is almost upon us.
It got me to thinking about what we'll do for our first Valentine's Day as husband and wife. We've never gone "all out" for Valentine's Day before, but we definitely like to celebrate it with a special date night.
I'll admit -- I'm excited to finally be able to buy a Valentine's Day card from the "Husband" section at Hallmark. But aside from that, I've not really thought about how we'll celebrate this year.
How will you and your husband (newlywed or not) celebrate this year? Will you give gifts? Feel free to share your great ideas with us! :)
Oh, Sucky! I just realized that it is a Tuesday night. So we prob will not do much sinse he has to work so early and the step son will be home. But I never really know, he has been FULL of surprises lately.
I've never celebrated Valentine's Day before. Aside from when I was a kid and gave the whole class pieces of cardboard with cartoon characters on them, lol.
We never did anything before we were married so I doubt that will change now that it's our first married Valentines Day.....maybe he has something planned but I don't think so.
Maybe we'll see a movie, and eat out or something.
@tksjewelry: Yeah, the thing on the radio was advocating that couples go out on Saturday, February 11 instead. Tuesday is a lame night to have a date night!
This will be our first Valentine's day together! Our first year we had just started dating so didn't do anything and last year we were long-distance.
With that said, we aren't really V-Day people. My husband brings me flowers about once a month, for no reason at all. My plan is to cook a nicer then normal dinner and to eat it at the table with a candle or two :)
@kala_way: Haha, don't you miss those cardboard valentines for your classmates? That was always so much fun.
And I understand. Like I said, we don't get way into it, but we do like to use it as an excuse to go on a date! We're very much a dinner-and-movie couple, too. :)
I'm not sure what DH and I will do, but I'm sure we'll acknowledge it in some way.
Valentines day was our dating anniversary, so even though our anniversary count is "starting over" with our wedding date, I still want to acknowledge our 8 years together so far.
@Gemstone: ohhh I totally didnt think about the husband card section. AWWWWWW now I am all excited.
I have no idea what we will do, more than likely we will make something delish to eat at home and just enjoy a quiet (tuesday bleh) night in.
We don't really do V-day so I doubt we'll do anything special. Maybe go out to lunch together.
Mr. Lk will buy me flowers because I love flowers and he buys them for me at least once a month. He's a smart man. :) Other than that, we'll exchange cards and call it a day. We're in the middle of house hunting, and really can't justify dropping $100 for a nice dinner right now when that $$ could be going toward house stuff. So I'll cook, as usual, and that will be that.
Valentines week is big this year! we will celebrate our 1 year anniversary on the 12th, valentines day on the 14th and then my husband turns 27 on the 17th! busy week!
This will be our second valentines day as husband and wife! We had been married just 2 days last valentines day and were on our AMAZING honeymoon! i want to go back! So needless to say we are we are actually, at this very moment, emailing/talking plans for our 1 year anniversary instead of valentines day. We really want to try and get away for a 3 day weekend and i'm still going crazy trying to think of a 'paper' gift to get him. I have a feeling Valentines day and our anniversary will be lump together most years, which is completely fine with me.
@Gemstone: We can't celebrate earlier because Saturday and Sunday FI's band has gigs booked, and then Monday is his birthday! I'll probably have to work late Tuesday and he works early, but I'm sure we'll do something for it sometime next week. Usually I'll cook dinner and then he'll take me to see a tomantic movie that he would typically refuse to see, lol. I think this year it will be The Vow.
@lovekiss: That's a great point about the $$. We're not exactly at a point where we can spend very much, either.
Anyone have any ideas on doing Valentine's Day on a budget?
We were just talking about this last night. Almost all the nice restaurants in town do a prix fixe menu for Valentine's so that's out - husband is a vegetarian and those menus never have anything for him. We're thinking we'll go either the Saturday before or Friday after so we can actually choose our meal! We're going to order pizza and watch food network on actual Valentine's night because we're awesomely romantic like that.
@totheislnds: Umm, how amazing is that week going to be? Valentine's Day doesn't compare at all to your anniversary!
@Wonderstruck: Can you go out the Friday after, maybe? And yes, it's the perfect chance to see The Vow!
@misspeanut: Your plan sounds great! We'll probably do something similar -- a night out during the weekend and then just a fun night at home on actual V-Day.
Also, I'm sure our Valentine's day will be pretty low key, since we leave that Friday for our belated honeymoon!! So I guess you could call that our belated valentine's day celebration.
Oh, I just remembered! For Christmas, my husband's best friend (he was our best man) and his fiancee got us a "date night" package, which included a gift card to my husband's favorite restaurant, two movie tickets, and a gift card to a local ice cream place. Maybe we'll use that for Valentine's Day so we can celebrate without it costing too much!!!
@KatNYC2011: Woohoo! Where are you going? That's way more exciting than Valentine's Day!
@Gemstone: We are going to Tanzania for 2 weeks. 10 days on safari and 5 days on the beaches of Zanzibar.
I cannot wait!!
@Gemstone: haha true! i'm so excited...i just keeping thinking how i haven't even thought of gifts and I still have to buy an anniversary gift and a birthday gift for him.
My absolute favorite (cheap) date night is ordering take out from our favorite chinese place. We move our coffee table and throw our down comforter on the floor with tons of pillows and blankets and watch movies in our living room. $12.00 for dinner, maybe a nice $6.00 bottle of andre (classy! ha) some dessert and a movie on demand!
@Gemstone: I hadn't thought about the "husband" card section either! YAY! I'll definitley be buying a card this year (I usually like to make them)
Considering we'd have to find a sitter for the evening we probably will stay in.
I was thinking of attempting to make crepes since they're DH's FAVORITE and you can find them where we live EVER at all. I figure even if I destroy them, he'll still be uber happy that I tried! lol
And then I found this fun looking "game of love" on pinterest that if I get time to make it before then I'd LOVE to have a surprise bedroom game. 
I was anti V-Day after my ex brought me chocolates and a stuffed bear, threw them at me and after I thanked him he said, "my Mom made me buy it." Never liked to buy into it before that but this was the icing on the cake.
Needless to say, I told DH he never had to worry about it while we were dating. Then he proposed on V-Day last year and made it a little better for me. ;) So, I'm not sure if we'll really "celebrate" it by going out, but maybe a nice romantic evening at home would be good.
Hopefully the chef we used for our wedding will be doing his Valentine's Day drop off again. He's done it the last few years. He creates an amazing menu, and it's usually about $65/pp, then he drops everything at your house that day with instructions on how to reheat and assemble the meal. You get a lovely little printed menu and a long stem red rose with it. Awwww. It's perfect :)
I have been trying to figure out what I can do for some time now, and I think I may finally have figured it out! DH got me a gift certificate to a new restaurant I have been dying to go to and made VDay reservations (this was all part of my Christmas gift) - so I cant do anything on actual VDay because he has it covered.
I am buying DH an expensive first anniversary/31st birthday gift this year so I am trying to be very economical throughout the year. I think on Saturday I will plan his favorite meal (not sure yet if I'll make it or go around and pic up his favorite things at a few different restaurants), get a "nice" bottle of wine (like $15) and we'll stay in with a movie. On valentines day I think I'll hide little notes/items in his brief case and coat pockets so he finds little things from me throughout the day. Nothing big, just little candies, etc.
@KatNYC2011: Oh, that's right! I remember seeing you post about that elsewhere. Awesome!!!
@totheislnds: Isn't it wonderful how the most simple things like that make for such a fun and special evening? Take-out and movie nights at home are one of my favorites, too!
@amnystik: That looks delicious! And oh my gosh, I ended up reading the whole blog post about the Game of Love. What a fun idea!
@CherryWaves: You definitely have reason to like Valentine's Day a little more now!
@bakerella: How amazing and romantic is that?
This will actually be our first V-Day spent together while married. We were married last Valentine's Day, but he was in New Mexico and I was in St. Louis so my BFF and I went out together. lol
We'll probably do ours the Saturday before. DH isn't going to want to go out on V-Day because he gets up for work at 5am. I actually bought him a card today! We're not lovey-dovey card people. I got him a silly one about having feet as cold as ice-cubes. He has freezing cold feet and loves to put them on me to warm them up.
Honestly, we'll probably just go out to dinner. There's this amazing Italian place in the town we live in called The Mulberry that we've been waiting for a special occasion to try.
I'm hoping for flowers, but not holding my breath. lol
I was never much for Valentines Day before but since this is our first one married, I want to do something special. I was originally going to book a nice weekend away but then I decided to save the money that I would spend on that, and buy him the iPad 3 for his birthday when it’s said to come out in March. Instead, I got him a gift that I know he’s going to absolutely freakin’ love!
DH is obsessed with all things Apple (the company, not the fruit). He’s been a loyal user for 15+ years and it’s his dream to someday work for them. His favorite logo is the Apple rainbow that hasn’t been used in years. If you can even find stuff with the rainbow logo, it’s normally pretty pricey since old Apple stuff is highly collectable. Well, I found a rainbow poster (circa 1980) on ebay and spent last night in a bidding war with someone who apparently wanted it just as bad as I did. I won the auction and am now the proud new owner of a $100 poster (yikes!). I didn’t really want to spend that much but it’s worth it, both as a collectible and because DH will love it so much. I’m going to have it professionally framed and try to hang it up in his office before giving it to him
As for how we’ll celebrate, I’ll probably just make a nice dinner at home. We don’t like to go out on holidays like V-Day or New Years since everyone and their brother are fighting for dinner reservations. Instead, we’re going to go out for a nice brunch the Sunday before at a fancy hotel. The food is to die for!
Aren't newlyweds too broke to do anything special on Valentine's day?? haha
I'll probably just get him a card if anything. He likes to get me flowers regardless of holidays, so he'll probably get me some for V day but I know florists are really busy at this time so it doesn't matter. My birthday is a couple days after so we'll probably go out to dinner with DH's daughter as a Vday/Bday celebration.
We usually go to our favorite craft beer bar on v-day... I know, so romantical.
@Moja Milosc: Haha, hence why we're probably using gift cards to go out!
I've always celebrated Valentine's day (even if single, I'd do candies for friends or something) but I don't like to go out for dinner on the actual day. I just find you don't get the same service or quality of food you'd normally get because it's too busy. I prefer to go out to eat a little bit before or after (avoiding the weekends surrounding the 14th). Instead, we'll probably have a special meal at home with some gifts.
Good call on the husband cards though! I'm looking forward to that now too. Sometimes I pick up a card for V-day and sometimes I don't, now this year is a definate must!
@UpstateCait: Wow, what a perfect present! I found my husband's wedding gift on eBay and was SO proud of myself when I won the auction, haha. And oh my gosh, I love brunch food. That will be great!
@Gemstone: I love that about the "Husband" card! I am excited be able to do that too. My husband got my a birthday card that said "wife" and it made me all giddy.
I think Valentine's Day is fun. I think I'll probably try and think of a special dinner to make and we can have a candlelit dinner at home. I have a groupon to our favorite frozen yogurt place (it's one of those places with tons of toppings and you can put on as much as you want) so I think we'll go there for dessert. I'll have to look up that game of love on Pinterest 
@delirium.megans: Haha, that's okay! It's so fun to have traditions like that!
@AB Bride: Yeah, dining out on the actual day can be less than stellar sometimes. And yay, so excited to be reminding everyone of how fun it will be to buy a "Husband" card. I was so excited to get him one for his birthday and for Christmas!
@panterapeach: me neither! we've never done much for Valentine's Day, but I think I'll get him a mushy card. I'm sure all the restaurants around here will be packed, so we'll probably wait until our dating anniversary in March anyway:)
Besides, BFF and SIL are both due this weekend......the next couple weekends may be spent visiting new moms and their babies!
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