St Valentine’s Day is coming up, and with it comes a slew of romantic get-togethers, events, displays of affection, and little demonstrations of affection. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it is also a very popular day for marriage proposals. After all, what better day to mark your commitment to the person you love than the day whose entire focus is love and romance? Why, proposing on St Valentine’s Day is a good has been discussed to a great extent, largely between those who support the idea and those who find it a little predictable and cliché.
Regardless of what the critics say, we’ve decided to list a few reasons why you should be happy to propose on St Valentine’s Day. Get your rings and wedding plans sorted, ladies and gentlemen!
What Day Could be More Apt?
For some people, the day chosen is completely random. The idea just crops into their mind that they want to get married to their special someone, and they cannot wait for an auspicious day before they pop the question. This is fine, we all get nerves after all. Others meanwhile may choose a date that’s special to them in particular, such as the day of their first date, or a romantic holiday, or some other noteworthy occasion.
However, St. Valentine’s Day is quite literally a day whose entire focus is love. It is the day where you are allowed to be sentimental and soppy towards people for whom you have a particular attraction, and to be a little bit eccentric in how you choose to express it. If you can present giant bouquets of roses, large boxes of candy, and (poorly) sung renditions of popular love songs, you can pretty much get away with anything. Thus what better day could you have to do something as crazy as propose? It sets the perfect mood and theme for it. In some cases, certain people may even quietly be hoping for it. What’s more romantic than a proposal, after all?
It Allows the Best Build Up
As mentioned, St Valentine’s Day is typically an occasion where public displays of affection are more broadly tolerated than other days of the year. Simply put, it is expected to go out and do romantic things with the person you love. This, coincidentally, provides the perfect backdrop to build up the moment towards a wedding proposal.
After all, when you’re already presenting thoughtful gifts, going for romantic outings along the pier or in the park, and enjoying candlelit dinners for two, you’ve already got the best atmosphere to pop the question. It also allows more natural means for dropping hints about the proposal in question, which can help gauge the mood that the prospect may bring.
St Valentine’s Day Allows for a More Natural Move
Because you are probably already organising some event or another to celebrate St Valentine’s Day, you’ve already got an occasion to propose. One of the biggest challenges people face when asking for someone’s hand in marriage is just how to find the right moment. Depending on circumstances, this could delay a marriage proposal for quite a while in search of just the right time and place. Sometimes it also creates the temptation to over-plan the wedding proposal, making it needlessly complicated and more likely to flop due to something going wrong. This is another reason proposing on St Valentine’s Day is a good idea.
With the two of you already out on an intimate sojourn, with a personalised and maybe even favourite itinerary already planned, it’s easier to get into the mood of the proposal and easier to find that perfect time. There’s also a lot less pressure and less temptation to organise something big. There’s already a plan involved, so why overdo it when it has already been covered?
It’s Traditional
While some may call it a cliché, we prefer to think of it as being traditional. Proposing on St Valentine’s Day is done so often simply because it works better, and some have even taken to expect having a marriage proposal on the day in question. Sometimes knowing it will happen makes the idea of accepting it a little easier to swallow, which benefits both parties immensely. It also creates the ideal proposal story for the two of you to tell friends and relations later as well.
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The writer, Christian Mills, is a blogger on a number of relationship and love topics – often favoring the classics. Afterall, there is a reason these things last long enough to become classics. For those needing ideas for what to do after that special someone says “yes”, he recommends turning to www.weddings-magazine.com. You can learn more about Christian on Google+.
