Valentine’s Day is a day overloaded with your typical proposals. So how do you make it special? Here are three ideas!

1. Say it with candy. Buy her favorite box of chocolates and pre-open it, replacing one of the chocolates with the engagement ring! She may think you’ve skimped out with just candy, but wait until she opens that box! Another idea is to buy a bag of conversation hearts and find one that says, “Marry Me”. Hand it to her with a, “hey, look at this one,” or “I think this one is perfect for you.” As she looks at it, drop to one knee.

2. Choose Your Own Adventure. Do you remember those books from when we were kids? Design a personalized “Choose Your Own Adventure” book and print it out. Write it to go with your love story with funny alternate options and make it so whatever adventure she chooses, it ends up at the final page: a drawing or photo of you on one knee, or just the words, “Will you marry me?” with it setting the stage where you are (We’d be in your living room, we’d be at a restaurant, we’d be in the park…). As she gets to the last adventure and sees that it’s the exact location you’re in, slip down on one knee and pop the question.

3. Party, party. If you aren’t ones for Valentine’s Day, and yet you want to have a sort of “ironic” proposal and chose the day to propose, throw an “Anti-Valetine’s Day Party”. Much like in the movie Valentine’s Day, it can end up being for couples or not. Have balloons and candy and whatever you want to make the part as anti-cupid as you can. But throw a kink in the plans and propose in the best, cheesiest way you can at the party. There’s no way she’ll be expecting it, and it will be a story to last you a lifetime!

Emily