Today I’m joining some of my favorite girls to bring you 5 ways to wine and dine your sweethearts for Valentine’s Day! These ideas are designed to help you spoil your Valentine this year. If you are new here from Chloe’s blog Boxwood Avenue or from anywhere, welcome! I’m so glad you found me! I hope you will look around and come back often.
To me Valentine’s Day isn’t just a holiday for love birds, it’s for all of those special little someone’s in your life, that includes my 5 sweet children. So we celebrate Valentine’s Day all together, as a family. My husband and I go out to celebrate on a different night alone, when it’s not as crowded and busy.
This year to wine and dine your Valentine, try setting a fancy table for breakfast.
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Start with a couple of yards of my jumbo gold heart fabric as a table cloth. You don’t have to sew any edges or anything! Simply throw it on the table! I used this fabric on last year’s Valentine’s Day table too. Mine is printed on the modern jersey fabric. It’s amazing because it doens’t wrinkle and washes up fabulously!
For the place settings use…
White Plates – I love these plates because they look like Valentine doilies!
To really make your Valentines feel spoiled, add a box of chocolates to each place setting. Grab some of those inexpensive boxes of chocolates you can find at your local grocery store. We are going to doll these babies up to make them look like a million bucks!!!
To make these special mini love boxes follow these 3 simple steps…
How to Make Chocolate Gift Boxes
1 | Trace the heart box lid onto the paper of your choice. I used different gold papers from my local craft shop. You can use card stock and fancy it up with stamps, like I did with my thank you notes here.
2 | Cut the heart out
3 | Glue the paper onto the top of the box
Slip a small gift inside with the chocolates. I added heart shaped earring for my daughter, Apple gift cards for my boys and money for the younger kiddos. You may also want to slip in a special love note. Tie it up with some ribbon {here is the ribbon I used, it is so luxurious}!!! They make fabulous gifts for teachers too!
Next whip up a fun breakfast to complete your spoiling! If you’re looking for a good menu, visit my Kate Spade brunch post with the recipe for THE BEST homemade waffles and syrup here.
Try these tips to wine and dine your Valentine this year! Now hop on over to my friend Courtney’s blog French Country Cottage for more ideas on how you can wine and dine your Valentine. Below is a full list of the gals sharing ideas. You don’t want to miss any of them…
Summer SheLeavesALittleSparkle.com
Kelley KelleyNan.com
Chloe BoxwoodAvenue.com
Courtney FrenchCountryCottage.net
xo,
Oh Randi! You were the cutest mom! I just love this idea and I always love waffles! Such a fun idea to start the day off with a special breakfast. I absolutely love your idea to make those chocolate boxes fancy… Brilliant! I’m going to have to steal that idea and do the same. What a transformation! And I love the idea of putting a little gift inside. You are so thoughtful and everything is beautiful… Right down to your fun tablecloth! I love it all and I’m so glad you were able to join in on the fun and share with us today. Thank you sweet friend!
Summer thank you so much for stopping by! This was such a great idea! Happy Valentine’s Day!!! xo
So so pretty! Of course love the dishes ( I have the same ones) and love the sweet idea you shared.
Thank you Courtney! You have great taste! This was a fun loop! Happy Valentine’s Day my friend! xo
Randi, you are so, so good!!! I love the idea of dressing up the chocolate boxes…so genius!!! Your table is beautiful and so are you dear friend!!! Xoxo
Thank you my friend! Wishing you and your sweet family a Happy Valentine’s Day! xo
Randi, your family is so dang lucky to have you! Those boxes are absolutely adorable- I bet they wake up feeling like it’s Christmas morning! Love this so much xoxo
Kelley I just love you! Thank you so much! xo
Your table looks amazing, love the boxes, I am going to steal that idea for my hubby (he loves chocolates)
Have a wonderful Valentine with your beautiful family!
He will love it! Thank you so much for stopping by! xo
What a perfect Valentine’s breakfast table! I love all of your beautiful touches, especially your heart ornaments and Arte Italica dinner plates! Also, what a great group and beautiful tour feature shots! Can’t wait to visit the others. Love you friend!
Thank you Jen! Wishing you a happy Valentine’s Day my dear friend! xo