Your Valentine’s Day Gift Guide According to Love Languages

Let your special someone’s love language help you decide what to gift them this year for Valentine’s Day.

Celebrate all the relationships in your life this February with these gift ideas for a partner, sibling, friend, and parent this V-Day! Gifts range from $free-$200ish.

Why is Valentine’s About Love?

Did you know that Valentine’s Day is also related to a historic Roman festival that symbolizes the official start of springtime? When I learned this, I immediately thought of something else that signals the sound of Spring: daffodils blooming. Ever since I can remember, these flowers have been my favorite. From their sunbeam color, liquid gold fragrance, and strength to break the Spring soil before many other flowers, they are something to celebrate. During Spring semesters in college, I would plan my route to classes according to the daffodil patches on campus. Flowers are indefinitely a love language, especially around Valentine’s Day. In 2021, the National Retail Federation released that Americans spent more than $21 billion on Valentine’s Day, this included an estimated 250 million roses purchased and over 145 million cards (Hallmark LLC). 

Love Language Season

This Valentine’s Day, knowing love languages is top priority. Don’t know yours? Take this 5 Love Languages Quiz to find out how you rank the following with how you like to receive love: Quality Time, Acts of Service, Physical Touch, Words of Affirmation, and Receiving Gifts.

Knowing someone’s love language is the first step to becoming that person. The person people can’t wait to open a gift from because it’s always just right–a combination of something unexpected, useful, and undeniably thoughtful. 

Let’s Get Gifting Already

Below is a love-filled list of gift ideas for each category of languages: 

Quality Time

• Planetarium or museum tickets for a date night
• Disposable camera to take photos of each other
• Classic game or Card game 
• Fondue set or Sushi set
• Tattoo gift certificate–maybe even for matching ones 😉

Words of Affirmation

• Customized poem from this Etsy shop
• Handwritten love letter
• Make them an “all about you” playlist
• A text a day leading up to v-day with a reason you love them
• Leave post-it notes around the house for your loved one to find

Physical Touch

• Couples massage or pedicure
• Heart-shaped heating pad or cuddle-ly
• Big Joe chair that feels like a hug
• Polaroid camera bundle (w/spicy photos taken for your partner)
• Silk pajamas: his and hers
• A weekend getaway: One of my favorite spots in Charleston, SC

Acts of Service

• Name a star after them. I have used this service in the past
• A bottle of their favorite wine to save and let age with your relationship
• A subscription to a magazine that focuses on one of their interests or new hobbies
• A painting of a special memory or object. This can be simple line work, abstract, or detailed (the most important ingredient to this is that it’s homemade)
• (speaking of homemade) a baked heart-shaped cake (see this helpful post for the perfect cakey-heart recipe)

Bonus: my go-to last-minute items to order online

Conclusion

After thinking about Valentine’s Day and what to use as an image for this post, I decided on something that combines all the love languages: cake duhhh. Cake is an act of service because it was the ending to our Mitchell family dinner. It is quality time because Banks (brother, 18) helped me decorate it. Cake is physical (kinda) because a lot of it ended up in my stomach. Baking cake is saying “I love you” with ingredients instead of words.  

Allie xxx