• Take her camping with a twist. Bring wine, flowers and make her dinner served by the fireside with romantic music playing.
• Live in an apartment building with access to the roof? Try checking with your landlord and setting up a romantic dinner by candlelight maybe even include a violinist.
• Memorize a romantic poem that depicts your love and recite it to her/him.
• Take her/him on a romantic gondola boat ride.
• Hire a horse drawn carriage.
• Have dinner in the park with dancing and a tape of songs that are special to the both of you.
• Take a hot air balloon ride.
• Consider a spur of the moment airplane ride over your city at night.
• Live near an island like Catalina or the Channel Islands? Spend the day at the shore snorkeling, bicycle riding or try taking a paddle boat out.
• Attend a formal ball complete with tails and top hat. Want to really wow her? Go ahead and hire that horse drawn carriage
• Broke? Try buying a heart shaped baking pan at your local grocery store and baking a chocolate chip cookie. Can’t bake? Buy any frozen cookie dough and thaw it a bit until you can spread it out in the cookie pan. Buy a tube of icing and write your own sentiment on it. Then fill a bathtub with lots of bubbles. Add some rose petals, music and a less expensive bottle of wine or sparkling apple cider. Cut the cookie into pieces like you would a cake and serve on cute plastic valentines plates you can get from the market or a party supply store.
• Consider taking a sports lesson together. One neither of you has tried. Here are a few good ones: Surfing, ice skating, golfing, scuba diving, or paragliding.
• Go to a bead shop and buy a few pretty glass beads with a few initial beads to add to the middle that spell out her name or “I love you.” String them together and making a bracelet, anklet or necklace. Click here for more Romantic Gift Ideas.
• Try a horseback ride on the beach complete with champagne and watch the sun go down together.
• Find a concert in the park where you can pack some food, sit on blankets and gaze at the stars together.
• Take an overnight trip by train.
• Simply tell her all the reasons why you can’t live without her. Read our Love Quotes and Poems to get inspired.
• Show her/him how much you care by taking the time to create a homemade meal he or she won’t soon forget.

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by Melanie