How to ask your girlfriend to be your valentine?

Asking your girlfriend to be your valentine is a chance to show how much you care by incorporating personal touches and inside jokes into a fun, lighthearted proposal she’ll always remember. From baking custom cookies to planning an elaborate scavenger hunt, the possibilities are endless for coming up with the perfect way to pop the question. With some creativity and a little effort, you can put together a one-of-a-kind way to ask her that makes her feel valued.

Make a Creative Invitation

Instead of just asking plainly, make a unique invitation or gesture:

1. Bake customized Valentine’s Day cookies decorated with an invitation.
2. Use colorful sticky notes to ask her in cute ways on her locker, car, notebooks, etc.
3. Craft paper flowers or origami hearts with “Be My Valentine?” written inside.
4. Decorate her yard or car with signs that say “Will you be my Valentine?”
5. Rent a billboard or electronic sign with the Valentines question.

A homemade, heartfelt invitation adds a layer of thought and care to make her feel special.

Incorporate an Inside Joke

If you have a funny inside joke or experience from when you first started dating, weave it into your request in a creative way to add personal meaning. For example, if you bonded over a shared love of Star Wars, make her a handmade Star Wars Valentines meme. Or if you had an awkward or funny moment on your first date, reference it in a comic valentine.

Adding this insider humor makes your invitation unique to your relationship.

Have an Engaging Scavenger Hunt

Instead of just asking outright, send her on a scavenger hunt around places with meaning to your relationship, like your first date spot or where you shared your first kiss. At each spot, she’ll find gifts and love notes with rhyming clues leading to the next spot. The final note can reveal an invitation to be your Valentine hidden where you first met or asked her to be your girlfriend.

Making her search builds anticipation and excitement.

Enlist Friends

Get your mutual friends in on it by having them wear t-shirts that spell out “Be My Valentine?” when you’re all hanging out together. Or have friends give her gifts or notes with successive letters spelling out the big question. Getting others involved shows effort and coordination.

Go Big with Flowers

If you want to make a huge romantic gesture, fill her yard with bouquets of red roses or have a florist deliver roses spelling out “Be My Valentine?” Send her on a scavenger hunt to find all the flower arrangements. She’ll be wowed by such an over-the-top display.

Serenade Her

If you play an instrument or sing, create a musical Valentine asking her to be your valentine. Write a song, modify lyrics to an existing love song, or adapt a pop song by switching words to convey your Valentine’s invitation. Recording your serenade or performing it live adds a swoon-worthy personal touch.

Use Special Tech Effects

Use tech tools to craft a unique virtual invitation:

1. Create a personalized e-card or video using a site like Animoto that incorporates photos and music.
2.  Edit together clips and pics with an app like iMovie or Spark Post into a short valentine movie.
3.  Record an invitation message and alter your voice with sound effects.
4.  Use stop-motion animation apps to make figures like Lego people act out an invitation.

Blending your invitation with technology shows you put creativity and effort into asking in an imaginative way.

Have a Scavenger Photo Hunt

Send her on a scavenger hunt around town to solve photo riddles that ultimately lead to gifts spelling out “Be My Valentine?” When she completes the hunt and sends you the photos, respond by asking her officially in your own video message.

Make a Puzzle

If your girlfriend loves puzzles, create a customized jigsaw puzzle with a message asking her to be your Valentine. For a digital option, use a site like Jigidi or Jigsaw Planet to make an online jigsaw valentine for her to assemble. Or create a digital scavenger hunt using puzzle maker sites.

Recreate Your First Date

Plan a special reenactment of your first date such as going back to the same restaurant or activity. Add some surprises and new elements so it’s not exactly the same, but still thoughtfully reminiscent. At the end when you return to the place you first asked her out, recreate the moment by asking her to be your valentine.

Walk down memory lane to bring your relationship full circle.

Pick a Significant Spot

Ask her while you’re at a spot that holds special meaning like where you shared your first kiss, had your first movie marathon, or went on your best date together. Being in a nostalgic place tied to fond memories makes the moment more sentimental.

However you decide to ask, use these ideas to create a unique, romantic invitation to make asking your girlfriend to be your valentine truly memorable.