3 Tips How to Make Every Day Feel Like Valentines Day on a Budget

Making your spouse feel special every day of the year…

Married couples who have been married for awhile are often looking for ways to enhance and refresh their marriage relationship.  Husbands and wives lives are so busy with modern life that keeping the romance fresh, vital, and alive in their marriage can be quite a challenge. Discover here some tips to keep your marriage revitalized, intimate, and loving by aiming to make every and any day feel like St. Valentine’s Day.

3 Inexpensive Tips How to Make All Days Special Like Valentines Day

3 Ideas for How to Fill Each Day with Romance Like Valentines Day

In fact, Valentine’s Day is a romantic idea now. 20 years ago when my late was still alive, Valentine’s Day was becoming quite a madhouse for couples to celebrate who lived in major cities, New York and San Francisco, like we did. He was a Southern Man, so his idea of planning ahead was to phone a few days in advance to make a dinner reservation. Needless-to-say, the place had been booked up for over 6 weeks in advance. Thank God there was a street vendor selling Ecuadorian Roses on Union Street who we passed on route the restaurant we found still had seating available.

Now, 20 years later, Valentine’s Day is such a racket with so many restaurants setting premium prices on a limited menu with weird seating times in order to stuff as many seatings as they can in one evening. Many married couples simply choose to celebrate Valentine’s Day with a special romantic dinner out on a different evening altogether. But the occasion still carries with it an archetype of love and romance for all.

Just what does make Valentines Day so special?

Valentines Day can feel special because it is day which our culture has set aside to celebrate romantic love.  Couples go to extra efforts to inject intimacy, celebration, and romance into that special day and in particular to woo their partner with romantic treats.

“You can inject romantic treats into your daily lives without breaking the bank….”

If Valentines Day is about special romantic treats celebrating romantic love, how can you and your spouse do that every day?

Couples will often invest a significant part of their spending budget into how the two of them celebrate Valentines Day.  Your Valentines Day celebration can include a special romantic getaway trip which can become quite pricing.  This article and the ideas it contains to make every day a celebration of romance in your marriage is not going to suggest you spend like that every day.  Don’t worry.  You can inject romantic treats into your daily lives without breaking the bank. Not every date needs to be going out for an expensive meal. Couples crave a variety of shared activities and connecting dates to foster intimacy and romance long term.  Vary what the two of you go do.

Do make cut out hearts to sprinkle on your bed.

You can write a special romantic love note to include in your spouse’s lunch bag or brief case. Alternatively, slip a special note with a single line or two of romantic poetry handwritten by you into their gym sneakers to discover when they arrive at the gym for their daily workout.

Do light inexpensive candles and wrap your bedroom and living room with fairy lights and twines of hearts

There are a number of inexpensive ways to infuse your home and bedroom with an air of romance. You can purchase those inexpensive around $1.00 24-hour candles I see at Target, Wal-mart and the 99cents and Dollar type stores. They come in all sorts of colors. Pick what colors make you two feel the most romantic. You can always start with white and red ones and grow your collection from there.

Do retain the romance by keeping things varied in what you do, what you give, and when you give your gifts

Part of what makes Valentines Day so wonderful is that feeling of what you two are doing is a little bit special.  So to do that, you want to make sure to avoid your behaviors and tidbits becoming predictable or pedantic.  How can you refrain from that feeling?  By mixing things up and varying it a little bit.  Vary the poet you cite.  Vary the location of your note.  Don’t include a handwritten note every day.  Maybe it is a note card today and tomorrow it is a single piece of his favorite dark chocolate covered raspberry creme candy. (See’s Chocolates for me, please! And Pink Roses!)

Happy Dating and Relationships,

April Braswell

As seen in “In Touch Weekly” and in Dating for Dummies, 3rd Edition

April Braswell is a Professional Speaker who speaks to couples ministries and singles in Singles Groups and Divorce Recovery Groups as well as at Singles Dating Workshops and Singles Conferences.  Hire April to speak at your Women’s Conference?