Romance/Valentine stories wanted.

[DeDixie]

With V-day just around the corner, lets start a thread about great romance and valentine day stories.

 

[Otto's Doll]

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[Kimberle]

When we started dating, my dh would send me a dozen roses each week.

He started out with light pink, then progressed with each color getting just a bit darker each week. He said it was his affection growing for me. Till I got the last ones, deep red! ~~true love~~

He went all over looking for a florist who carried deep purple roses. I never even knew roses came in that color.

 

[Mishetta]

I don't know how romantic people will find this story but my DH went Valentine's Day shopping for me (with our DS, then 6 y/o) at the local mall & wanted to buy me perfume. He went to each counter & smelled the perfume or asked the sales lady to spray a card for him so that he could sniff it to see if (he) or I would like it. He said he smelled about 20 diff scents before he found the one he liked for me. I was pretty touched over that story! Anyway, he picked out Cashmere Mist by Donna Karen & it's still my fave fragrance & I wear it almost daily!

Last year he gave me a Barry Manilow CD & each year he always gives me "mushy" cards & then he'll write something sweet in it that makes my eyes well up with tears.

 

[Bumbles]

For as long as we've been married, it'a a tradition that I get a facial each VDay. Don't need to pay for a massage..just gimme that facial!

Some gals want chocolate, pearl necklaces, stuffed animals....not me..I'd cry if I didn't get my annual VDay facial!

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

DH and I actually got married on Valentine's day. It will be five years ago this year. Boy was that an interesting day. Everything that could've gone wrong, went wrong.

While getting dressed, I managed to rip holes in my new pantyhose with my brand new acrylic nails (which I've never had since) and my sister had to run to K-Mart in her maid of honor dress to buy me new ones.

I got so frustrated with my hair I burned the side of my head with the curling iron.

While attempting to back his truck out of the garage, DFIL forgot the hatch window was up and it snagged on the edge of the garage door, causing it to shatter. Luckily, the cake was in the box and he put it in MIL's Buick. Only to find out later while un-boxing it, the bottom layer had cracked in half and nearly fell off the table. My stepsister Carol (a former cake decorator) went to the local Albertson's and begged some matching white icing off of them. Upon returning to the church, she managed to somehow get the cake to stick together again with the icing and some plastic coffee stirrers.

The organist was supposed to play "Sunrise Sunset" from "Fiddler on the Roof" as part of the pre-ceremony music. It never happened.

At one point during the ceremony, DH and I had to step up onto the altar to get blessed or something and my sister was supposed to pick my train up GENTLY and put it to one side so I wouldn't step on it. Liz picks it up and THROWS it to one side with an audible whap on the tile. You can even hear it in the video.

When it came time to bless the rings, the pastor (for some reason still unknown to me) put the rings inside his bible. At which point DH's ring slipped out and rolled across the floor to be retrieved by the best man.

Post-ceremony, as we were having pictures taken, Heather, one of my flower girls, lost one of her clip on earrings. I moved one step to the left to get out of the way so they could look at it and heard it go crunch under my heel.

About the only thing that went right that day was when my sister's best friend Katie sang "Valentine" by Martina McBride, which is our song and I broke down into tears listening to her. *sniffle* I STILL cry whenever I hear that song.

It was kind of a nightmare wedding in some respects, but it will be a wedding that we'll never forget that's for sure. Because on that day I married my best friend, the one I laugh with, live for, love.


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[pammypooh]

Valentine's Day, 1988, I was a junior at Penn State and had three exams the following week. My bf, David, also had exams so we planned to meet at Patee Library and study. It was bad enough that I had to spend Valentine's Day stuck in the library, but then I walk in and find my bf with one of his frat buddies and a new pledge. Now I didn't even have one on one study time with David...what a Valentine's Day.

Wasn't too long after that that David and I split up.

Fast forward a semester....

In walks that Pledge (now tep brother), Bob, to my econometrics class...after a week or two of being asked out, he wore me down. So glad I said yes. Even after just our first date, I knew he was the one. Now married 14 years and 2 kids to the pledge that I met on Valentines Day.

Pam

 

[DeDixie]

Great stories ..... keep them coming.

Here's mine.

Summer 2002 -- our kids were at sleep over camp and we got to enjoys 5 evenings home alone. We wen't out a couple of nights, but one night my DH came home and told me not to come in the kitchen -- not a problem! (I was on the dis boards at the time, lol) anyway he made a beautiful dinner, had candles and flowers and a card that said we were going to Bermuda and stay where we had our honeymoon! Too Cool ---- Then after DD's came home from camp, one said "I can't believe that you are going to someplace like Bermuda without me!!" -- So, we ended up taking the girls!! We did book a super romantic dinner on the beach, where water even lapped on our feet while the girls were in the kids club.

 

[barbeml]

DH and I were only dating for about a month when we celebrated our first Valentine's Day. I think it was obvious that we were meant to be together when we each bought the other something from the Warner Bros. Store! (I love Gossamer, the red hairy monster in sneakers, and Dave loves Marvin the Martian). We had a very romantic dinner that V-Day.

The following year, Dave proposed on V-Day. The next year, we celebrated our first married V-Day at the restaurant where we had our wedding reception, and started an annual tradition--we watch "Lady and the Tramp."

No matter what we do, V-Day is always special. ALtho we show our love every day, I am very happy that there is a day set aside to celebrate love.

Barbe

 

[grinningghost]

My DH will always be "my knight in shining armor". Without going into details, he is the reason I am here today and have a wonderful home and daughter. He literally helped me to escape something awful. I will always be grateful, and nothing more romantic is even necessary.

 

[Stepharoonie!]

These are nice. Wish that I had one to share with you, but not yet. Siighhhhh....


But, BUMP! Keep 'em coming

 

[wdwlover22]

well, I am 42 and when I was in jr high & high school, there was this "boy" that liked me. WELL he was "trouble" back then in those days, I was very shy. he scared me!

well I known steve most of my life, and have seen him here and there over the many....so many years since school, he continued to ask me out. NO was always my answer.

a year ago on Oct 22nd I ran into him again, and I bought him a beer for his birthday.....I fell in love Oct 27th.

Althou we both have had 2 really really bad marriages, we have decided to take this extremely slow, we have become the best of friends, we know how each other feels

but of course "fear" is there just coming off past relationships.
we both feel we always should have been together, and I have been kicking myself for turning him down so much....but my thought is things happened this way for a reason..

When I "refound" Steve...for the first time in my life I have felt like I am finally HOME!

oh, and we are going away on our first big "cross country" trip together!! thou it is not gonna be Disney (he had his 2nd honeymoon there...bad memories I guess) we will just have to work on that one next year!:

oh and by the way...he is no longer "trouble" it is ME he has to worry about!!

 

[DeDixie]

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