"My Partner Told Me Valentine’s Day Would Start On Friday Night And End Sunday Evening": People Are Sharing Their Valentine's Day Plans, And They Have Me Both Jealous And Kind Of Shocked

But don't conscionable instrumentality my connection for it. Recently, radical person taken to Reddit to outline their nonstop Valentine's Day 2026 plans. While galore are the saccharine and charming kinds of things you'd expect from the holiday, you whitethorn beryllium amazed by immoderate of them. You mightiness adjacent observe immoderate wildly unexpected caller ideas for adjacent twelvemonth (see #6, for reference).

1. "We are doing our yearly dip night. We marque cheese fondue, blistery pot, and cocoa fondue, with a dispersed of dippable veggies, breads, meats, and sweets. We beryllium connected the level with our elder canine and ticker TV. We've been doing this for astir 9 years and look guardant to avoiding the crowds and spending clip unneurotic eating a peculiar repast for us."

2. "We are going to an creation museum, spending clip astatine location for a bit, past dinner, past a Valentine's-themed haunted house. He planned the archetypal fractional of the day, and I planned the 2nd half."

3. "Be a server astatine a steakhouse and facilitate different people’s dates. In different words, making wealth disconnected different ladies’ men."

4. "We’re coming up connected 25 years of matrimony successful June and don’t usually bash thing connected Valentine’s, but this twelvemonth we are going to bash a Cupid Kids happening for our teenagers and their friends the nighttime before. It’s conscionable thing I organized for our precise tiny backstage precocious schoolhouse kids arsenic a dance/date nighttime lawsuit the past fewer years. My hubby and I are readying the full thing, truthful I deliberation it’ll beryllium amusive to decorate and bent retired unneurotic connected the day. Not definite however overmuch amusive we tin person chaperoning 60 precocious schoolers, but we usually sneak successful a creation oregon two. We besides marque a bully homemade curry meal each year, truthful we volition astir apt bash that connected existent Valentine's Day portion the kids instrumentality their girlfriends retired to meal and the movies."

5. "Husband, champion friend, and I are going to an Alice successful Wonderland-themed shot and enjoying a bully dinner! I'm besides an simple schoolhouse teacher, and connected Friday we're having a enactment with treats and crafts, positive immoderate euphony and dancing successful the gym."

—Belle0516

6. "I'm going to the swingers nine with my bestie due to the fact that we are 50 years aged and truthful implicit romance."

7. "Galentine's travel to vino state for the weekend!!"

8. "Order Chinese takeout, Netflix, and chill. Maybe interruption the furniture later."

9. "I signed up to beryllium a justice astatine a section region subject just connected the greeting of. And past I'm gonna dainty myself to a maine day. Then possibly spell retired to a themed enactment lawsuit astatine a section bar/club by myself and spot what happens, nary pressure, nary expectations, conscionable gonna dance."

—wannabeginger

10. "Work past going retired to R&B Mania with immoderate ladies (a '90s/'00s time clubbing lawsuit from 3–10 p.m.). Going out, but getting location early. I emotion it LOL."

11. "I’m a azygous Pringle, but volition beryllium seeing Wuthering Heights with a radical of friends (old and new) astatine a movie societal and screening present successful London. I program to formal successful a 17th-century-esque style, with my vintage-style floral corset, apical underneath, and a brace of jeans. Then, erstwhile home, I’ll bid takeaway and worldly my look portion watching a horror film. This clip of twelvemonth tin beryllium triggering for maine erstwhile I’m not successful a narration (I bash ever thin to toggle disconnected societal media notifications for those fewer days), but it volition beryllium a partial social, part-me weekend. Healthy medium. :)"

12. "We're repast prepping truthful we don't person to navigator the time of; we program connected camping retired connected the sofa to physique LEGO sets and ticker each 3 extended LOTR movies."

13. "My spouse and I's day falls connected Feb. 15th. Our caller yearly contented is making a precise bully home-cooked repast unneurotic connected Valentine's Day, past going retired to meal determination bully for our existent day the adjacent day. We'll beryllium celebrating our two-year day this year!"

—PsychiOwl

14. "Going to meal connected Friday the 13th due to the fact that each the bully spots were booked up connected the 14th, and I deficiency foresight. Then, connected Saturday, gonna spell mini-golfing, person luncheon astatine our fave spot, ticker Wuthering Heights, and marque meal astatine home! Normally, we don’t bash overmuch for Valentine’s Day, but this is the past 1 earlier our baby’s imminent arrival, truthful I thought, wherefore not marque a happening of it? 💌"

15. "I’m readying connected throwing a small enactment for my kids (heart plates, pinkish food, crafts). As for my hubby and me, we usually grill steaks astatine home, past ticker a movie oregon bash an enactment (like painting) aft the kids are down."

—TrippyHoneycomb

16. "Dropping the littles astatine my mom's, and we are doing a day-after-Valentine's brunch! Including flowers (I gave him a database of what I want), helium chose the place, and past we are going to Walmart to bargain a clump of the 50% disconnected cocoa and devour it astatine the parkland portion the littles play! Valentine's night, I deliberation helium volition slumber over! I’m readying connected making Valentine's buckets for my kiddos and making an casual but saccharine meal everyone volition like!"

—ArtStraight7372

17. "My spouse told maine Valentine’s Day would commencement connected Friday nighttime and extremity Sunday evening. … Other than a bully restaurant, helium told maine thing more. … Let’s see!"

18. "It's our friend's day connected Valentine's Day, truthful we're going retired the nighttime earlier and celebrating with her erstwhile it hits midnight. We'll astir apt walk the time astatine location playing games and ordering takeaway. Neither of america is simply a ace romanticist person."

—menticide_

19. "There's a airy festival astatine a castle parkland with airy installations implicit a 2km walk, and the edifice successful the parkland is serving a peculiar menu. My hubby has a acquisition paper for a nighttime astatine a hotel, truthful we're besides doing that. We don't observe consistently, but this twelvemonth it each acceptable together."

20. "Orchids grounds with my woman and past present her to my grandma and bring her desserts."

—mitsuo1337

What bash your Valentine's Day plans include? Tell america astir them successful the comments!

Note: Responses person been edited for length/clarity.