Celebrating Your First Valentine´s Day Together

On your first Valentines Day together you should do your best to create traditions that will last throughout your relationship. This may include simple things, like you always waking your lover up with breakfast in bed or buying him/her the hottest new lingerie on the market. However, it could also mean something more sentimental like offering love letters and poetry or handmade gifts to show how much you care. Whatever you decide to do you will want to make sure your first Valentines Day is the first of many happy ones to come.

Special Traditions
Many people already have special traditions when it comes to holidays such as Valentines Day. Ask your lover if they have any special traditions when it comes to this holiday so that you can include them in your celebration. If they do not have any, suggest making some together. This is a great couple's activity and will set the tone for other holidays that you celebrate for the first time, together.

Special traditions can be quite normal so it really boils down to how you will want to celebrate the holiday. You might decide to always go away for a few days so you can enjoy each other's company in paradise. Other special traditions might mean you take off work early and spend the evening in bed, you go out dancing, take in dinner and a movie, or you roleplay as people you do not get to be every day. You can make anything you want a tradition. In the end, it will be what works for you and your lover.

Creating New Traditions
While you might have your own Valentine traditions you should always make room for some with your lover. The tradition you have does not need to be elaborate, but it's important to share something special with the person you love. You might say your Valentines tradition is to only buy things we can use together. The options here are endless but you could end up with some pretty interesting gifts on Valentines Day.

Couples who are into racier types of romance might enjoy a new Valentines challenge ever year. For instance, one year you might go on a trip and decide to join the Mile High Club. Another year you might sneak away in public for a hidden tryst (or try). You might even set a lovemaking goal to see how much you can accomplish in a set amount of hours. These ideas are bound to make Valentines much more interesting for a couple that is looking for more intimate action.

Be Open to New Things
Suggest things you might want to do or experience with your lover on Valentines Day and have him/her do the same. You should be open to at least considering new ideas during this time if it seems like something that they might be interested in. You might not want to try everything but you may end up liking some of the things they suggest. The important thing is to be honest during this time.

You should not just reject your lover's ideas. If there is a reason why you are not interested in one of their ideas you should be upfront and tell them. This allows them to get to know you better and ensures that future holiday Valentines Day events are more suitable to your needs, wants, and/or desires.


(Author Shayla Moore)

Romantic Movies For Valentine´s Day

Valentine's Day brings in the season of watching some romantic, passion filled and ardent movies with your darling. A candle light dinner, soft music, dim lights and a romantic movie are the main ingredients for a special and fun-filled Valentine's Day celebration. So, what are you waiting for, boost up the romantic moment and live in the romantic spirit this Valentine.

On Valentine's Day one can choose from a multiple options of romantic movies and make the day the most memorable one. A romantic movie is the most important part of the day's celebrations as it expresses the feelings with unspoken words.

Romantic Hollywood Movies
The list of romantic movies in Hollywood industry is quite long. These are really heart warming, touching and extremely romantic ones. Some of the most popular romantic movies are briefed below:

Casablanca: Casablanca of 1942 is still watched with same fun and romantic awe as it spelled its magic earlier. It is simply the greatest love story ever made in the Hollywood industry. The characters were so moving and deeply associated with their roles which created a real life scene in the movie.

Breakfast at Tiffany's: To spend cheerful and happy moments of laughter with your mate, then this Hollywood movie is a perfect answer. A very soft, loving and a light-hearted love story defining the performance of Audrey Hepburn as a call-girl.

Love Story: It is a simple yet unforgettable movie. The movie revolves around the duo madly in love with each other. The boy in the movie belongs to a rich family who marries his poor love who get sick and dies later on. The movie had very hearty and touchy vibes.

Titanic: A fictional love story of Kate Winslett and Leonardo is simple and beautiful based on historical sinking of the gigantic Titanic. Audience saw the sinking of Titanic through the eyes of these two lovers.

Pretty Woman: It is a magnanimous love story about a wealthy businessman falling for effervescent hooker. Roberts and Gear an incredible on-screen chemistry. The movie seems to be a so natural and convincing which helped it earn rave reviews.

City of Angels: City of Angels is a heart-touching love story which reflects about life and death. The story seems to be realistic and touches the soul as an angel named Nicolas gives up eternity in heaven to be with a woman on Earth.

Love Actually: The movie 'Love Actually' is a comedy, drama and a superb love story. There are 8 story-lines with different love stories. The movie makes a statement "Love actually is all around". The director has beautifully presented different facets of emotions. Love triumphs, fails, begins, ends and love is born anew.

Other Popular Hollywood Movies:
The Bridges of Madison County
When Harry Met Sally
The Lake House
My Best Friend's Wedding
The Fountain
The Science of Sleep
Roman Holiday
Sense and Sensibility
The Last Kiss
My Super Ex-Girlfriend
Rain Man
Mixed Nuts
Working Girl

Valentine´s Day Quotes

"Love is a game that two can play and both win by loosing their heart."

(Eva Gabor)

"Love is not finding someone to live with; it's finding someone you can't live without."

(Rafael Ortiz)

Valentine´s Day Quote

"Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. "

(Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Valentines Day in Middle Ages

Valentines Day festival gained much popularity during the Middle Ages. Lovers began to celebrate the day by exchanging love notes and simple gifts such as flowers. The idea of linking Valentine's Day with love in Middle Ages was strengthened by the notion that birds began to look for mate during this time. Various legends related to the festival including that of Feast of Lupercalia and martyrdom of Saint Valentine further lead to the increase in the popularity of Valentine's Day festival.

Beginning of Birds Mating Season
During the Middle Ages, it was commonly believed in France and England that birds mating season began from February 14. This popular notion added to the idea that the middle of the February celebration of Valentine's Day be celebrated as a day of love and romance. Fourteenth and fifteenth centuries English and French poets and litterateurs through their romantic verses further promoted the concept of linking Valentine's day with romantic love. For instance, a verse by Dame Elizabeth Brews says,

And, cousin mine, upon Monday is Saint Valentine's Day and every bird chooses himself a mate, and if it like you to come on Thursday night, and make provision that you may abide till then, I trust to God that ye shall speak to my husband and I shall pray that we may bring the matter to a conclusion.

Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century, “Parlement of Foules'' writes
''For this was sent on Seynt Valentyne's day'
Whan every foul cometh ther to choose his mate”

These popular verses further helped to create a romantic image of Valentine's Day festival during the Middle Ages. Lovers, therefore, began to celebrate Valentine's Day by expressing love to their sweethearts with an exchange of love notes and simple gifts such as flowers.

The First Valentine's Day Card
The first known Valentine is said to have been written in 1415 by Charles, Duke of Orleans to his wife while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London following his capture at the Battle of Agincourt. The greeting is part of the manuscript collection of the British Library in London, England.

Historians also say that Saint Valentine of Rome also sent a letter signed “From your Valentine”, to his sweetheart who was the jailers daughter a day before he was to be executed. This phrase is still popular amongst lovers.

Legends influencing Valentines Day Celebration in Middle Ages
One very popular legend of Valentine's Day states that the festival originated from the Feast of Lupercalia - a fertility festival celebrated in mid February by ancient Roman during pagan times. The festival paired young boys and girls through a lottery system who would fall in love and marry.

Another legend states that a priest called St Valentine lived in Rome during the reign of Emperor Claudius II. Valentine defied the orders of Claudius order that banned engagements and marriages in Rome and secretly married young boys and girls. Saint Valentine was executed by Claudius on February 14, 498 AD. Over the period of time St Valentine became the patron saint of lovers and they began to celebrate his martyrdom by expressing love for their beloved and exchanging love notes.