Plan an overnight at a Bed & Breakfast & surprise her with it.
If she asks you if you notice anything different, do not say "no", take your best guess, hair cut, new outfit, anything, if you are right, you win, if you are not, compliment her on whatever you did guess and ask her what is different.
Give them a pair of scissors: You cut through all the problems when you're around
Go to an amusement park, hold hands all the way around the ferris wheel!
When you need to add some spark to your relationship, grab a blank sheet of paper and make a few coupons. Example: One free back rub, good at anytime. Just put them on the fridge and let them redeem them at their convenience.
Explore all of the tourist activities your own city provides.
If there is a game you are good at but your mate is not, sit down and show them how to play. Teaching them the secrets you know can make the playing much more fun!
For a group date play a scenario paint ball game where you heroically save your intimate other that is held hostage.
Find a picture where you are happy, find a different picture where your mate is happy and smiling. Paste the clashing pictures together and frame it. Somewhere on the picture, write "We were meant to be happy together." Give it as a little random gift.
Have him dress up nice and take him out to a fast food restaurant. After eating blindfold him and have a hotel room fixed with candles romantic music and roses petals on the bed for a night he will never forget. As you walk in keep him blindfolded and ask him to dance. After dancing a while take the blindfold off. He will love it!
Cut several pieces of paper up into squares. Write one question (favorite color...) you would like to know about your partner. Then place them in a jar. Have your partner do the same. Then everyday take one out and share your answer with your partner.
Order a pizza when you and your date are planning a relaxing night at home. When the doorbell rings, go get the pizza and leave your love in another room. Open the pizza box and arrange the pepperonis into a big heart. Let your love open the box and see her giggle with delight.
Save all of your email correspondence, bound it, and give it to your mate as a gift.
Buy your mate a gift certificate to their favorite store.
Play in a tree house together.
Create a jar filled with "Love Coupons." Make the coupons redeemable for hugs, kisses, back rubs or any number of special favors. Give the jar to your lover and let them redeem the coupons at their will.
Prior to the date and alone, pick out a nice place i.e. beach, water, sunset and place a single stem rose somewhere on a rock or anywhere you can find and with the rose have a letter on it written from you straight from your heart. After you have gone out to a movie or dinner take that special person to that special place where the rose with a letter to them will just happen to be laying.
Tell her that she is the best thing that has ever happened to you in your entire life!
Go to a rummage sale together.
Go window shopping with your partner sometime, when he or she sees something they really want, tell them you are just here to window shop. Go back at a later date and purchase the item, they will appreciate that you remembered it!
Massages are good! Offer them, you don't have to be professional. It's the effort that counts.
Proposing is sweet, but not as sweet as it can be...Try this crazy idea...arrange for you to go to a bakery for morning breakfast, or maybe early dinner, and have them bake a cake with "Will you Marry Me?" on it. Then in the middle of the cake there will be an icing flower, and in the flower will be the ring. Beautifully Sweet!!
Go to a restaurant with a food neither one of you have tried, try some Vietnamese, Indian, or Russian food.
Take her out that afternoon (possibly on the beach) then fix her a picnic. After that take her for a walk down the beach and when the sun begins to go down get on one knee and give her speech. Don't just say "Will you marry me?"
Send your man/woman and bag of candy hearts, with a note saying this is how many times you stole my heart.
Make your lover 101 reasons why she(he) is the greatest/why you love her(him)/ and why you are so glad that they became a part of your life. Put each reason on a separate square of paper and number it, then put it in a fancy box.
Celebrate her birthday twice per year, every six months give her a card, a gift, and a romantic dinner.
Women loved to be spoiled. Give a gift without your presence. Wash her feet after a long day and rub them with lotion. Run her a bath, light her a candle, put on soft music and let her enjoy this time alone, it will pay off later!
Make her the "model of the evening", go somewhere and just take pictures of her all evening.
Kiss her face, eyelids, forehead, nose, and chin lightly for several minutes.
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