5 Easy Ways to Make Your Valentine’s Date Night Special!
Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to celebrate with the person you love! My husband and I have really busy lives, and with three little ones and jobs and everything else, we really look forward to those times where we can have a date night to just be together. If you are looking for ideas to make this Valentine’s Day special for you and your favorite person, I hope you will find the perfect date night for you below.
Make Dinner Out More Delightful
One of the most popular options for Date Night is to go out to dinner, and it’s a common choice on Valentine’s Day. The problem with that is most people end up going to the same places all the time and it stops feeling special. Your Valentine’s outing is a good time to change things up. Here are some ways to make it exciting again!
- Go back to a place that has special meaning for one of you or both of you as a couple.
- Ahead of time, ask for recommendations from friends or go online to research and pick a restaurant neither of you have ever been to and try it out.
- Restaurant-Hop. Go to one place for appetizers, one place for entrees, and one place for desserts. It will take all night, but it’s fun!
Add Meaning to a Movie Night In
If you can’t go out, you could always have a movie night in for Valentine’s Day. Movie nights in are one of my favorite things. But it’s so easy for it to become just another night. Here are some ways to make it more meaningful!
- Rewatch the first movie you ever watched together and take a trip down memory lane. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is ours.
- Make a list of each of your favorite movies from different stages of your life and go back and watch one that the other person hasn’t seen. It might teach you things about your partner that you didn’t know.
- Make it a marathon! Pick a series of movies and watch them all in a row in one day.
- Go out first and pick up some treats to enjoy while you watch. Our go-to is cookies from a bakery chain called Insomnia and Starbucks!
Attend an Event You Won't Forget
Sometimes all you need to make a night special is to find somewhere new to go. One thing that is fun to do is attend special events in your area. For example, we went to a local museum for Valentine’s Day last year because they had an exhibit of the movie White Christmas, which is one of our favorites. Here are some suggestions:
- Join the email lists for museums in your area to find out about special exhibits coming through.
- Check websites for local parks. Sometimes they do special events like movie screenings, outdoor activities, or other special events seasonally.
- Check for special Valentine’s Day events in towns and cities near you.
Try Something New
Growing together is one of the best parts of being a couple. It’s also a great thing make part of a date night. Use Valentine’s Day as a chance to try something new. Here are some ideas and examples:
- Teach your partner something you know how to do but they don’t, like a sport or a skill.
- Decide on something you both want to learn and go learn it! Take a class together, like a painting class, dance class, or cooking class.
- Go somewhere you have never been like a new bike path or waterfall hike, or maybe a show or museum.
- Try something you’ve never done. My husband and I are thinking about trying axe throwing or an escape room this year since neither of us have done those things before.
Give Up Control of the Plans
For me, sometimes planning a date night kind of takes the fun out of it. So, if you’re like me, let someone else make the plans for your Valentine’s Day this year. Here are some options:
- Plan a night for your partner with all the things you think they would want to do. My husband did this for me a few months ago and we went to my favorite lunch spot and then to play putt-putt, which is one of my favorite things to do.
- Have someone you know well (a friend, your mom, even your kids) plan your night and then give you your itinerary right before. Then do whatever they planned for you.
- Use an app like Cobble to plan your date night for you. You and your partner swipe through date ideas and when you both like the same one, it will notify you that that’s your date night!
- Use a subscription service like The Adventure Challenge to give you tons of fresh ideas. They have an option for individuals and families too!
I hope this post gave you some ideas that have made you excited for your Valentine’s Day Date Night this year! What are you planning to do with your person this year? Drop a comment below! And check out some more amazing posts about how to make ordinary days special:
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Have a good day!
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These are all great ideas. I love seeing all the photos too.
Thank you! I love making date night fun and special!
Love these ideas and love the photos!
Thank you so much!