Leave little notes around school or work or home telling him to follow the clues to what leads to a rose and a love letter.
Propose in a helicopter over the Niagara Falls.
When picking your date up at their house/apartment/etc, have your own special way of knocking the door or announcing your arrival. They will distinctly know it's you before they answer the door and will be happily smiling when they answer the door. Always a nice way to start the date.
Take your loved one out for a picnic lunch or dinner out by a bluff and a waterfall.
No matter what you are doing...remember always to be gentle...
Finger paint together.
Go to a coffee shop and play a game of checkers or chess.
Sleep outside under the stars together.
Look at photo albums together, bring back the memory when you two first met or your first kiss.
Celebrate their 1/2 birthday.
Last Year, I was 17 and my girlfriend and I had been going out for about 2 years. I loved her with all my heart but I'd never told her that. One day, out of the blue, I bought her a dozen red roses. I went to Wal-Mart and bought a Fake rose that looked identical to the real ones. I then took out one of the real roses and replaced it with the fake one. I then gave her the flowers with a card attached explaining "I Will Love You Until the Last Rose Dies"
Write down your anniversaries for any dates you can remember, put these on your calendar. Including: anniversary of first date, first kiss, first time you made love, marriage, first big fight, date you purchased the engagement ring, birthday, first time you met.
Send them a get well card or balloons so they know you really care, or send them two kisses over the phone one for then and one to make them feel better when they start to feel bad again.
Take her out for dinner, and stay for an hour after eating, just to talk.
Eat a candlelight dinner on a screened porch. (Jamie)
Give her a box of hearts or romantic stationery or notes.
Reproduce her wedding bouquet with the same flowers as she had, if you don't remember what they were, call her Maid of Honor or the mother of your bride.
Take your date an blind fold them, and have a friend set up a candle light dinner on the 50 yard line of a football stadium. Its kind of different but it works.
Write "you're beautiful" or "you're handsome" on a post it note and leave it on the bathroom mirror.
Send your lover a telegram.
When love is great, there is no need for words! For even in silence love is heard! Love her more than yourself!
Bring here back to where you first met. Take along a video camera and interview her about that first day. Save it. Watch her face light up.
Forget your purse and share an ice cream. Feed each other with the one spoon.
Put Hershey kisses leading to her room with a message, "I kiss the ground you walk on."
Have pillow fights and tickle fights!
Give him or her a dozen roses on any occasion. Giving 11 real and 1 fake, with a little card saying I will love you till all the flowers die. The fake one never dies. It represents the love you have for the person.
Ask him what his favorite sports team is and then surprise him with tickets.
Keep a journal for the time that you are apart. Put in it how you missed them and what made you think of them during the day, your dreams, etc. At the end of your time apart give it to them and let them read what you wrote.
Turn their birthday into a birthday month.
Get a custom license plate made for your lover, something unique and meaningful to the both of you, or something like "4EVERU" or "MY LUV".
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