Valentine's Day Gift Baskets
Valentine’s Day sees shops overflowing with heart shaped chocolates and red balloons, massive bundles of roses and beautifully packaged perfumes, all designed to curry favour with a loved one. Love may be in the air but that could all change if you don’t charm your valentine in the right way on February 14.
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Chocolates and flowers may be considered traditional but even today they remain the most popular Valentine’s Day gift with over 54% of women agreeing they love receiving such gifts. A beautifully presented single stemmed rose accompanied by a romantic message, while simple, continues to create smiles on female faces the world over. The downside of giving cut flowers is eventually they fade and die – a modern alternative would be to give a beautiful rose plant, preferably red which denotes love or white symbolising unity. The romantic plus of such a gift is couples can then plant the rose in the garden together. Perhaps there could even be some romantic togetherness derived from cleaning up after all the digging!
From the traditional to the technological, digitally sent messages of love from secret admirers are fast gaining popularity and there are more and more ways to communicate with your valentine. E-cards allow you to send creative love missives, or perhaps try sending romantic ring-tones, logos and pictures. A romantic email is another option but think carefully about the wording in order not to offend as it is easy for emails to be misinterpreted.
In the lead up to Valentine’s Day internet searches for romantic poetry jumps by more than 300% suggesting that love poems are a popular way to communicate with that special someone – words as well as presents are an important part of the poetry of love, however avoid anything too suggestive especially to first time Valentines.
There is no surer way to surprise and delight a Valentine than by sending a gift to a place of work; sending a small tasteful ‘secret admirer’ gift to a workplace will work wonders. The gift needs to be small, like perfumes, bath gels, chocolate or simply a gift wrapped invitation to dinner – what could be more romantic?
If you’re searching for something really personal to give on Valentine’s Day why not consider compiling a scrapbook of your early courtship together filled with photographs, quaint annotations and other memorabilia or perhaps a romantic picnic somewhere secluded – weather permitting of course.
It was Lewis Carroll who wrote, “Oh, ‘tis love, ‘tis love that makes the world go round!”, that is certainly true on Valentine’s Day.
Hobby Hampers – themed gift boxes and themed gift bags are a great alternative to sending a hamper.
