• Incorporate stargazing into any date and it will make it romantic. Looking up into the awe-inspiring heavens starts meaningful conversations about deeper and more interesting topics. Stargaze on your roof, in a park, a field, the mountains, ( this is where you can the see the stars the best!) the beach, or anywhere else that fits your plans.

• Botanical Gardens: Go to a rose or floral gardens. This is most romantic during the evening. Bring an ipod or portable speakers to play your favorite songs dance in the romantic ambiance of the gardens.  

• Take dance lessons together: Most country clubs offer a dance instruction session prior to the dance that evening. Also check other dance venues of your interest for lessons. This can be a fun ongoing hobby you develop together or just do it once. Show off your new learned skills at the next dance you attend together or spontaneously have in your backyard. 

• Go to a restaurant that is on an upper-level floor with a great city view. 

• Have dinner in a park: Surprise your date by bringing them to a park for dinner. Set up in the middle of the park or by a tree, a table with a table cloth, candles, and a dinner of your choice. Bring portable music to add to the experience. Give your date a rose or leave a nice note on a table as an added surprise. 

• Kidnap your date early in the morning and take them out to breakfast at a 24 hour restaurant such as Ihop or Sharie's, or Denny's. 

• (Homemade) Dinner and a show: If you don't want to pay for the expensive dinner make a romantic setting at home and make your date dinner before your show time. Turn your backyard or living room into a magical place. Drape white/cream colored sheets to formed a tent like drapery and light behind it with lamp light. Inside place a table with setting for two. See pictures for ideas. Get a friend or relative to act as your waiter for the evening. Have your date wear an old prom dress or suit. Go to a dance after the show if or have your own. Create a fancy invitation to ask out your date or get creative with another way to ask. 

• Make a memory box: For the amount of days, months, or years you have been together (whatever # is smallest) write on a notecard a favorite memory you have with that person and put them in a decorated can, bin, or box. Other variations of this idea can be 

           ____ reasons I love being with you. 
                   ____ reasons I am happy I married you. 
                   ____ things that I love about you. 

• Ideas of things you can write on the notecards are inside jokes, memories, traits you like about that person, silly phrases you use with each other. For the date, make a scavenger hunt to find the can of memories. 

• Another variation of the idea above is to make a scavenger hunt that leads to a new card with a phrase or saying on it. Example, "30 reasons I love being with you" (for 30 days of being together). Make 30 cards with a special phrase or note on and design your scavenger hunt to lead to each card one by one. At the end of the scavenger hunt have a homemade gift, roses, or other item of your choice. Romance Scavenger Hunt Kit. 

• Write a song and sing it to your date: Don't worry about having a great voice. It will mean the world to your date that your are giving the very best you have and have taken the time to write a unique song. Heart melting topics and stanzas you can use to write the perfect song for your sweetheart. 

• Other romantic things to spice up your dates. 

                ~Hot Air Balloon Ride

            ~Carriage Ride

            ~Rent a Limosine for an hour and tour the town. 

           ~Dinner on a lookout. 

           ~Original Poetry

           ~Massages, professional or given to each other. 

           ~Cuddling in the same blanket when it is cold. 

           ~Sharing the same drink.

           ~Deep conversations

           ~Dancing