List of Romantic Ideas

Being Romantic doesn’t have to be extravagant or expensive. Actually, the simpler your ideas are, the more they will be appreciated. Remember, being romantic is about letting your heart speak… it’s your feelings and your sweethearts feelings that are important. So letting your actions speak louder than words is much more memorable and impactful. Here’s some of my favorite romantic ideas.

1. Make a homemade lottery ticket or coupon that tells your partner to return the paper to you to cash it – then show them how much you love them!

2. Get home before your partner and run a nice, hot bath. Put some lavender oil or other nicely scented oil in the tub or fill it with bubble bath. Light candles and turn off the overhead light. Now, light a candle and leave it in a safe place near the door with a note that says to follow the trail of candles. Place lit candles in safe locations where your partner can easily see them and let them follow the candles to the bathroom. Help your partner undress and get them into the tub. **You might even want to have a portable CD player playing soft music in the background to relax them.**

3. Pick a clear night in the spring or fall and surprise your partner by taking them for a spontaneous walk under the stars. Take along a light blanket to sit on and something to cover you if it is chilly. And bring a bottle of wine to share! Now snuggle under the stars in your yard, in the park or in some other quiet locale and enjoy the company.

4. Leave a note in your partner’s car or on their desk and tell them to meet a ‘secret admirer’ in a special location. It might be a location that only the two of you know or it could be a very public place. Tell them the hour to meet you, and tell them what to wear, if you’d like. When they arrive, be prepared to take them for a moonlit walk, or to a favorite restaurant or just take them for a ride in the car to a place you both love to visit or walk. Put a cooler in the car and bring cheese, bread and wine or just some chocolate covered strawberries to share!

5. Fill your partner’s car, gym locker or closet with balloons or flowers, or a basket of love notes with or without candy.

6. Show your partner your love is “Rock Solid.” Gather smooth stones from your neighborhood, or buy a bag of colored glass or colored stones from a craft store. Use a permanent marker or ‘colored white out’ correction fluid to draw shapes on the stones, a different shape for each color to color code them, or write a single word on the stone – like the old-fashioned valentine candy hearts. Whenever you want to remind your partner of your love, leave a stone on the kitchen counter, under his pillow, in the bathroom sink or on their desk at work, in a briefcase or suit pocket.

7. Make a CD with your partner’s favorite songs on it and use a favorite picture to decorate the inside of the jewel case. OR draw or cut out pictures that have personal significance to you to create the CD graphics. Then leave it on the seat in their car or on their desk.

8. Take pictures of yourself, or have a friend help you take the pictures. You can get silly and take pictures in funny poses or clothes, or you can be very romantic and seductive in the shots and take the pictures at romantic locations you’ve visited or even holding a magazine or picture of a place you both think is romantic.  Then slip these pictures into the places and things that touch your partner’s life (the refrigerator, a briefcase or purse, a drawer in the bedroom, under a paperweight, under a magnet on the refrigerator, in a cupboard inside a favorite coffee cup.

9. Play Twister! Be sure you have a bottle of your favorite liquor or a nice bottle of wine to keep you limber and increase the fun!

10. Make heart-shaped pancakes and surround it with maple syrup. Draw an arrow and point with the mashed potatoes so that the arrow goes through the heart shaped pancakes. Make the arrow out of small chocolate chips and serve it to your partner in bed.

11. Create a romantic scavenger hunt for your partner by leaving notes and clues in their office or at home.
The last clue should lead them to you at a restaurant, or in another room at home, where you will be waiting with a romantic snack like chocolate covered strawberries and champagne or at a table in a restaurant with a great appetizer and bottle of wine waiting for them to arrive.

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