A restaurant in your kitchen
One of you cooks, the other is the guest. A handwritten menu, a waiter with a tea towel over one arm, the bill paid in compliments.
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Valentine’s Day for couples: an evening plan, bingo and questions
A ready plan for Valentine’s Day at home or long distance: a warm-up game, dinner and questions that get you really talking. Plus printable Valentine’s bingo and date ideas, most of which cost nothing.
A Valentine’s evening in three steps
1
Warm-up, 15 minutes
Start with a game that loosens you up: Would You Rather or Who’s More Likely. Laughing at the start does more than flowers.
2
Dinner or a date
A restaurant in your own kitchen, a candlelit dinner or a picnic on the floor. What matters most is phones in a drawer.
3
36 questions and four minutes
Finish with a few of the 36 Questions for Love and try four minutes of looking into each other’s eyes. It sounds serious and usually ends with a smile.
Valentine’s bingo for all of February
A 5 by 5 card with romantic ideas: a handmade card, a slow dance, going back to your first date spot. Print it at the start of February and tick squares until the 14th.
🎲 Draw a bingo card
Valentine’s date ideas
Home spa
Face masks, warm socks, calm music and hand massages in turns. Phones stay in the other room.
Picnic on the floor
Lay a blanket in the middle of the room, make sandwiches and fruit, and play forest sounds in the background.
Time capsule
Write letters to yourselves a year from now, add a ticket, a photo and a small thing from today. Seal the box and write the opening date on it.
Breakfast in bed
One of you gets up earlier and makes breakfast in bed, and next weekend you swap. Crumbs are part of the plan.
Candles on a regular Tuesday
No occasion and no big cooking. An ordinary dinner, but with candles, a tablecloth and phones in a drawer.
Massage night
Oil, a towel and one rule: each of you gets fifteen minutes of massage, unhurried and with no talk about work.
Bubble bath and a playlist
Hot water, lots of bubbles, a favourite playlist and a mug of something warm. The rest of the world can wait.
Long-distance Valentine’s Day
Kilometres don’t cancel Valentine’s Day. Do the same thing at the same time: the same film, the same dinner, the same questions.
Memory night
Scroll your phone photos back to the very beginning and pick three favourites each. Tell each other what happened just before and just after.
A shared bucket list
Write a list of 20 things you want to do one day. From small ones for this month to big ones for a lifetime.
Horoscope and tea
Make tea, check your couple horoscope for today and talk about what it got right and where the stars overdid it.
Open-when notes
Write each other three notes labelled: open when you feel sad, when you miss me, when you have a bad day.
Questions for a Valentine’s evening
Ten questions from 36 Questions for Love. Take turns and listen to the end, without interrupting.
- You can invite anyone in the world to dinner. Who gets the invitation?
- Do you want to be famous? What would you be famous for?
- Before you call someone, do you ever run through what you'll say in your head? Why?
- Describe your idea of a “perfect” day.
- When was the last time you sang just for yourself? And for someone else?
- Imagine you'll live to 90, and for the last 60 of those years you can keep either the mind or the body you had at 30. Which do you pick?
- Deep down, do you have a feeling about how you'll die?
- Name three things we seem to have in common.
- What are you most thankful for in your life?
- If you could change one thing about your upbringing, what would you change?
Gifts that don’t cost a fortune
Open-when notes
Three notes for harder days: when you feel sad, when you miss me, when nothing works out.
The playlist of your story
One song for every important moment, from the first message until today.
A time capsule
Letters to yourselves a year from now, a ticket, a photo and a small thing from this evening, in a sealed box.
A bingo card with a promise
Printed Valentine’s bingo with a prize for a full card. A gift that lasts all month.
A letter on paper
A pen, paper and a few sentences you don’t say every day. Posted, even if you live together.
When is Valentine’s Day?
Valentine’s Day is on 14 February, Saint Valentine’s Day. In Poland it is a regular working day, so many couples celebrate in the evening or on the nearest weekend.
What to do on Valentine’s Day at home?
Play something to warm up, set up a restaurant in your own kitchen or a candlelit dinner, and end the evening with 36 Questions for Love. The three-step plan is at the top of this page.
How do you spend Valentine’s Day long distance?
Cook the same dish and eat it together on video, start a film at the same second or go through the 36 questions on video. A puzzle parcel opened together works well too.
What is a Valentine’s gift that costs nothing?
Open-when notes, the playlist of your story, a time capsule, a letter on paper or a printed bingo card with a prize for a full card.
Valentine’s Day lasts longer than one day
In Liskove a question, a game or a note waits for you every day, and your shared fox grows with every moment together. Premium works for your person too right away, so it makes a good gift.