There is no dearth of occasions to celebrate and exchange gifts be an anniversary, birthday or special holiday. Every now and then people who are in love, exchange gifts in order to express their love for one another. However, at times you just don't want the same old clichd gifts like red roses or candy hearts - you want something more, something special. There are occasions, which call for special and far more creative ideas that really touch the heart.
Romantic Gift Ideas for a Partner
Being creative is not that difficult especially when you know that whom you're giving these to is no ordinary person in your life. Let's take a look at some really creative romantic gift ideas, that I'm sure you'll find yourself using.
The Love Map
Draw a miniature map of the city where your and your partner spend majority of the days during your courtship. Now think of all the places that you frequented while you were dating, or the ones that hold special memories. The coffee house where you spent hours together, the park where you had your first kiss, your partner's favorite restaurant, the place where you had your first fight, the place where you had your first date and so on. Now mark all these places on the miniature map. Use cute colors, drawings and stickers to make the map more interesting.
Use faded paper (you can burn the ends of a sheet of paper before lightly coloring with a coffee-infused water) and mark the latitudes and longitudes with a brown marker or a brown color-pencil to give the map a worn out look. For the final touch, burn out the edges of the map to make it look like a really ancient and tattered map. Get the map laminated in a thin plastic film, which makes it easier for your partner to preserve it. Now roll the map and tie it with a simple brown string and put it in an old glass bottle, cork the bottle and present it to your beloved.
The Invisible Love Letter
Well everyone writes love letters when in love. But how about a love letter written in invisible ink? No I'm not talking about Harry Potter silly, there are ways to create invisible ink in real life too. See the confusion on your partner's face when they see a blank paper presented to them, and see them smile as the words appear from nowhere to reveal your loving message. All you need is some plain unadulterated, freshly squeezed lime juice, a pointed twig and a piece of blank un-ruled paper. Yes, lemon juice is the invisible ink we are talking about. Just dip the twig in lemon juice and write your love letter onto the blank sheet of paper and allow the letters to dry out.
Once dried, roll the letter and tie it up with a satin lace and place it into a wooden ornamental box. Now pack another small box and keep a lighter in it. Be creative and choose a lighter, which has a mushy lovey-dovey print on it like hearts, roses or teddy bears. Now wrap the lighter and place it in a small box along with a small note that says, "Can't see any words on the paper honey? Just hold the paper over the flame at a safe distance to read my message to you." Well when your partner, holds the letter over the flame the words will appear on the page since the lemon juice reacted areas of the paper take a deeper color than the normal paper.
The Perfect Gift
Well I saw this one on the television series called The OC ( if you've heard of it) and although it might sound very mushy in a 'teenage-romance' sort of a way, it really is one of the cutest romantic gift ideas. Here is what you have to do - think of the most popular romantic couples starting from the ones in history, the fictional ones, the celebrity ones or even the ones in you own family. Create a timeline collage by pasting pictures of all the couples in and around the border area of the paper and leave out a conspicuous space right in the center of the collage. Stick your photograph in the middle to create a beautiful collage that conveys your emotions. In order to make it easier to preserve, get it laminated and cherish your fond memories forever.
Romantic Memorabilia
Memories always enrich the bond of togetherness. How would you like your partner to have a collection of all your romantic memories rolled into one beautiful scrapbook? Sounds interesting, doesn't it? Well let me tell you that this idea could be easier and more interesting for you if you have been collecting your courtship memories with pressed roses, candy wrappers, or any other mementos and photographs that are related to old memories. Even if you don't have these, you can always rely on photographs and go back to your favorite places to get memorabilia items.
The movie tickets from the first date, the tissue paper with her lipstick marks, the sugar sachet from your favorite coffee house, the painting she made when you were in second grade, the photographs from you first vacation - take a big scrapbook and stick all the things that symbolize your beautiful memories. Write the dates and interesting details about your memories associated with those things as well. You can also add interesting love quotes and romantic movie dialogs from your favorite movies.
