A nice romantic thread

I sent my husband a single red rose once to his work place on valentine's day he worked so hard I thought he deserved it ❤

paddyanne

We stand at the altar we were married at every year on the date and time of the wedding...45 years and counting.Until this year when we had to stand outside because the church was closed due to Covid

Aww that's so lovely paddyanne.

paddyanne
That's lovely.

We love being in each others company and thank goodness for that with this terrible year. I tend to do romantic things for DH. This year I decided to do five pages of 'movie lines' (mostly one liners) so that he could guess which film they came from. We watch a lot of films so over time he should get them?! We do a few each day.

I once put a bar of his favorite chocolate bar a frys cream unfortunately the dye from the wrapper ruined his sandwiches ?

Don't know why it missed in sandwich box ?

Romance for us has slipped. I used to put notes in the OH.s lunch box but as he does his own now as I will not get up at 4.30am to make them and he would leave notes next to my my pillow. The last thing I put in his lunch box was a tampon as he was being a real grump and I said he was hormonal.
My sons are romantic. When one was planning on asking his girlfriend to get married he ordered a white arch and decorated it with lights, and lit the hallway with tea lights. When she opened the door and walked through he stood under the arch with an engagement ring. My other son took his girlfriend on holiday to Budapest, wouldnt let her put her hands in his pockets to keep warm as he had the ring box in there. He took her to a point overlooking the sea
and presented the ring to her there. They are now both married (within a month of each other) and both very happy.

Some lovely romance here but much more importantly to my mind some great humour. Nice that most of us feel loved in spite of no flowers or chocolate.
When I told Orlin that Spangler gave his wife flowers every week he said ‘there must be a lot of cemeteries around his way’.
He is unromantic but he does make me laugh even if his humour is weird.
Funny how many of us made packed lunches for our men in the olden days, and we all thought we were original putting notes in between the sandwiches.

Flakes, my sons too are quite romantic, goodness knows where that came from.

I've realised that I am not at all romantic but that DH is

LauraNorder

*Flakes*, my sons too are quite romantic, goodness knows where that came from.

And that DS is too
I think DIL might be more like me (not sure)

Wish I had someone to be romantic with

I find romantic gestures a bit uncomfortable and unnecessary. I don’t need flowers and I love you messages. It’s already in our day to day lives. It’s our golden wedding in July and we’ve been together since we were 16.

Same for us Gingster, we were 15 when we got together and have been married for fifty years.
We don’t need flowers and chocs to show our love but sometimes a light touch, a thoughtful message, a cup of tea in the morning, sharing the pleasure of a lovely sunset, little everyday things we might not notice are the real romance

My husband once said he proposed because I was a bit fed up at the time and he thought it would cheer me up, does that count? ?

His best moment though was for our 20th wedding anniversary: all I knew was I had to be dressed and ready to go out at 5:30pm.
We drove into the city, parked the car and walked to the theatre before the penny dropped.

He'd booked tickets for "Les Miserables," including a French themed dinner before the first half and pudding during the interval.

A wonderful evening and totally out of character for him to plan and organise anything, which made it all the more special ?

Contentment beats romantic gestures for me any day.

When I was working away from home my husband made a round trip of 150 miles so that I wouldn't have to have dinner alone in the hotel. My first husband couldn't be bothered to empty the bin!

My husband always books our holidays and I rarely know where we're going in advance. He tells me what dates to block out in my work diary, if he hasn't already done it himself, and gives me a rough idea of the climate to expect.

He organised our wedding and the first I knew was when he handed me the invitations he'd designed and had printed, telling me the time, date and venue abroad.

He'd sorted everything out, having liaised with my friends and family first. All I had to do was choose a dress and turn up.

Our first Christmas as a married couple, we were poor and all DH wanted was a pair of running shoes, he asked me all the time for some. I felt like being romantic so I made a brass plaque and engraved a verse I wrote on it.
Needless to say I have never done anything romantic since, it didn’t go down at all well and still gets spoken about 35 years later?

Pyewacket

My husband always books our holidays and I rarely know where we're going in advance. He tells me what dates to block out in my work diary, if he hasn't already done it himself, and gives me a rough idea of the climate to expect.

He organised our wedding and the first I knew was when he handed me the invitations he'd designed and had printed, telling me the time, date and venue abroad.

He'd sorted everything out, having liaised with my friends and family first. All I had to do was choose a dress and turn up.

Goodness, Pyewacket, how unusual! I guess you must be happy with that? Personally I enjoy the planning of events or holidays as much as anything. Have you been married a long time?

I’m with you on that one Lisagran. I’d go one further and say I wouldn’t trust Orlin to organise a holiday, we’d probably end up with a one way ticket to Timbuktu with him having packed snow boots.

LauraNorder
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I was very impressed when DH organised a weekend away for my 60th at Portmeirion.
I found out later that his secretary had recommended it, then organised it all. Thank you, Jan ?

LauraNorder

Same for us Gingster, we were 15 when we got together and have been married for fifty years.
We don’t need flowers and chocs to show our love but sometimes a light touch, a thoughtful message, a cup of tea in the morning, sharing the pleasure of a lovely sunset, little everyday things we might not notice are the real romance

Very true.

I did laugh at OrliNorder’s comment about cemeteries though.?

Pyewacket

My husband always books our holidays and I rarely know where we're going in advance. He tells me what dates to block out in my work diary, if he hasn't already done it himself, and gives me a rough idea of the climate to expect.

He organised our wedding and the first I knew was when he handed me the invitations he'd designed and had printed, telling me the time, date and venue abroad.

He'd sorted everything out, having liaised with my friends and family first. All I had to do was choose a dress and turn up.

Are you being entirely serious here Pyewacket .....

Pyewacket

My husband always books our holidays and I rarely know where we're going in advance. He tells me what dates to block out in my work diary, if he hasn't already done it himself, and gives me a rough idea of the climate to expect.

He organised our wedding and the first I knew was when he handed me the invitations he'd designed and had printed, telling me the time, date and venue abroad.

He'd sorted everything out, having liaised with my friends and family first. All I had to do was choose a dress and turn up.

I am glad you are happy with that Pyewacket !
While I agree that a surprise is nice, no way would I have wanted my DH to make all the decisions in our household.
Marriage is a partnership and of the pleasures of holidays IMO was the joint planning. Not telling me what we were going to do.
There’s romantic - like a surprise dinner or weekend away but our wedding.....?