A fun new romantic idea is the celebration of a 'Decimal Anniversary'. A decimal anniversary is the celebration of every 100 or 1000 days together. Surprise your partner with a decimal anniversary celebration and show them that not only is every year spent together special but also every day.
Write him a love letter covered with lipstick kisses and sealed with your perfume.
When he comes to visit place love notes or little surprises in his bag so when he gets home he'll find them as he unpacks and knows how much you love and miss him when he's not with you.
Take your someone special and a loaf of bread, and go to a lake and feed the ducks. Also works well if you bring a child or younger sibling.
Get her a dozen roses with one of them being fake, tell her you'll love her till the last rose dies.
Write a letter to your mate's parents thanking them for such a wonderful creation. (Anonymous)
Believe in your mate, and make sure he/she feels and knows that you believe in him/her.
Write love notes (I love you...) on sticky notes and place them on the insides of his clothes (that he's not wearing). To his surprise, when he gets dressed he'll find out how much you love him!
Light some candles, and throw some comfy pillows on the floor (or bed), put a fire in fireplace, have a glass of wine and read a book of poems or other love story aloud to your partner! A good suggestion is "The Notebook"!
Visit some local breweries together.
When my husband proposed he did it on his birthday. He said he was sick of opening presents and told me to open one. When i removed the tissue paper the ring box was at the bottom. I opened the box, he hit one knee and asked me to marry him! It was very romantic!
Make sure that you have desert! Cut up a watermelon into nice petite pieces and have him follow you to the bedroom.
Get your partner's favorite cereal. Open the box, take out the bag, make a slit in it and place a love note in the bag. Tape it back up, put the bag back in the box, and reseal it. When they get down to the note, it will be both a surprise, and a real prize for them.
One day rent a hotel suite. Then send your partner a dozen of white and red rose to his/her job, (take one rose out of the dozen), telling him/her how much you care for her or him. Also tell him/her that it was one rose missing out of the bunch and if he or she would like to locate the rose. He or she can find you and the rose at the suite. List the hotel and the room number and when he or she comes and ask for the rose tell he or she that the one rose that was missing was you.
Write a ransom note for your heart.
Buy scratch off lottery tickets until you come upon a winner, give it to them saying "I'm glad I picked a winner in you!"
Go on a past treasure hunt, visit places you've grown up, places you went to school, etc. Sharing your past can show where you came from to your date.
Even if you are the worst singer, write her/him a song and sing it to them, show them you aren't embarrassed to show your love.
By your guy a star. Blind him on the night of his birthday and then give him a piece of paper that says how to find a star in the sky that you had named for him.
Eat one plate of spaghetti together.
Go to an old bookstore and rummage through the bookshelves together, sneak kisses in.
Assemble a puzzle. Write a romantic letter on the back. Send your love one piece of the puzzle each day until they have the entire puzzle, and your love note.
For newlyweds, create a "time capsule" recording. On the tape, reminisce about your first year together. Record a popular song and read the day's front-page headlines. Watch the video every year to look back on your first year.
Hide your ring in a garden, tell your girlfriend you have an odd flower that you would like to see, walk behind them and as they find the ring, kneel behind them.
Blow up seven balloons and put an activity she would enjoy in each balloon. Let her pop one balloon per day & perform that activity.
Go to a bookstore and grab a few books together and look at them in a couch in the store.
Buy her chocolates for no particular reason.
Give mate large stuffed animal, with a note that reads "This is something to hold when I'm not around."
If you win any money in the lottery, give your mate more than half.
Write your lover's name in the snow.
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