It’s funny how a hallmark holiday can stir up such strong feelings in people- from cheesy, quirky lovey-dovey stuff to utter lonesome. With its beautiful flowers, presents, heart-shaped candies, and velvety decadent chocolates, it does precisely that. Regardless of your relationship status, I think you need to celebrate yourself, even if it’s just you. Especially if it’s just you.
Whether you’re celebrating today with a valentine, a galentine, flying solo or anything else- I hope you all feel love and spread love in your day.
If you’re single, you need to be your beautiful, cherished and funny valentine!
You need to cook yourself that delicious dinner, buy yourself beautiful flowers, wear your favourite dress, indulge in lots of chocolate (and I mean, a lot!!) and spoil yourself to a day of self-love.
As for me, I’ll be celebrating Valentines with my one true love: food.
Speaking of food, I reached out to some of our readers, asking them how they’d be spending this quarantine on valentine’s day and A LOT of their responses revolved around food too! Here are some of their answers-
“We’ve been together since 2018 and last year was our first Valentine’s Day together in one location, so we dressed up nice (we usually like to keep it casual almost always), so we made an effort and went out for dinner. This year, I would say it won’t feel any different as in we won’t be missing much because I will still get to eat good food with the person I love. All I need is a bomb dessert with my man. Being together is a blessing and luxury in the times like these, and we are grateful for that. When the quarantine started in March last year, I was stuck in Vienna for almost 4 months. Those were difficult months so just being together is a privilege. 😊” – Karaj
“Usually, we’ll dress up and go out for a fancy dinner, but this year with the lockdown in place in Ontario, we have our day planned a little differently. We’re driving to our favourite restaurants and will be grabbing appetizers, our main course and dessert at all 3 different ones, and then we will come home to a paint night and some champagne!” – Jasmeet
” I don’t think there’s much that I can give you!!! But, I think Alan and I are just gonna make the Tiktok pasta at home this year 😂 We usually don’t do anything except for just dinner at home anyway.” – Ellen
“So for Valentine’s Day, Brenda and I have sort of a whole weekend planned. Valentine’s day used to be really sad for me because I was in a bad car accident on that day five years ago. Now that we’re together, we try to celebrate our love and make the most of it. Friday, we are picking up dinner from Rosewood Foods as they are doing a Lunar New Years’ menu; we’ll also be watching Rupaul’s Drag Race and drinking some wine. Saturday, I’m making ramen for the first time from scratch, since it’s one of Brenda’s favourite meals and it’s so cold out! And on Valentine’s day, we will be sleeping in, probably having mimosas and a romantic dinner of homemade ricotta gnocchi with pesto and a delicious chocolate cake.”- Andrea
“This year my boyfriend, Sachin and I are long distance. We’ve been dating for six years, out of which three years have been long distance, so I am not new to this. We’ve survived the distance before. Speaking of plans, our plans aren’t that exciting because we can’t be together but just knowing that there’s a special one to make me feel beautiful and wanted. Our plan is to facetime each other and just have a date where we cherish our moment, giggle over some lame jokes, and promise to be together through thick and thin. I plan to surprise him by sending him a small surprise with a cake and lots of love. But u know Valentine isn’t just meant a romantic partner, it’s for all the people we love- friends and family, so make sure to celebrate or wish all of your loved ones not just today but every day.”-Manpreet
“Vic and I are not that big on Valentine’s day. I think there’s so much more to a relationship and making it special than just buying roses and presents on one day in a year. For us, every day should be special. Instead, we do date nights every month. This valentine, we’ll just be spending baking. Before we got married Vic use to send me flowers and presents since we were long distance. And after we got married, we had one valentine together in which I was one month pregnant. Vic decorated the house, made me dinner and brought me presents. Later that night, I was taken to the hospital due to having a bad reaction to eating mangoes (this wasn’t the dinner. I was just eating fried mangoes for a week), And it’s a high risk to eat mangoes in pregnancy. So my body reacted to it very differently. It’s not because of pandemic we’re not celebrating. We just mutually decided to celebrate our love once a month by doing date nights, not only once a year.” – Henna
Celebrate Love. Today, tomorrow and always!
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xx
Yachna
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