Listen up ladies and gentlemen. I would like to do something really nice for my wife. She deserves anything I can ever do for her. She is truly a good person. She takes care of the kids, pays the bills and is a full time student in college and keeps everything in order. I am running out of ideas. I have surprised her with everything I can think of over the past nineteen years. I am the romantic in our marriage and want something new and unique. I have hired limo drivers on valentines, nice dinners. Clothes, rings, earrings, New home and cars. Flowers, mini vacations, furniture, cards flowers and even the rose peddles down the hallway and such. I am out of ideas. Please help! I am not rich by all means but I don't mind spending the money for the surprise effect. We have already spent a week in Vegas also, renewed our wedding vows. I’m not bragging, I just want you to look and give me something different from what I’ve already done! Two years ago, we sold our old house and I gave her $10,000 dollars to spend on herself and she just put it into a cd for our kids for college. Please be nice, Ideas only!
2007-03-23 15:34:17 · 51 answers · asked by safetyusa 6 in Family & Relationships ➔ Weddings
I am liking you’re idea's but please remember, I am talking about 19 years. Know that we are very close and also know that I don't try to buy her love. We already have that. We have been through so much together in our lives. We have gone with nothing in the past and all we had was each other. We remain reverent and in love. So please know we already spend quiet times together, dinners at home without the kids and laying in front of our fireplace watching movies etc. That should go without having to say! I like the spa ideas; we have talked about it but never went through with it. I like the Picture idea and adopting a child. We have seven children by the way, only two left to finish raising!
2007-03-23 16:32:36 · update #1
how about a day at a spa, or just a massage, she sounds like she could use some time to relax
2007-03-23 15:37:44 · answer #1 · answered by lilian 2 · 8⤊ 0⤋
IF your a romantic and like the outdoors maybe see if someone can watch the kids and take her to a special place you 2 have and have a starlight, candle light, moonlit dinner. Its nice you give her lots of things but maybe what she really wants is that little spark you felt when you were just starting to love each other, instead of a material thing or to say here you go, i hope you have fun. All that stuff was real nice of you but as a woman myself what i like the most is my special time alone with the person i love the most and the one i would do anything for. Its real inexpensive but quite sweet and romantic. All you need is a blanket or two, nice dinner idea, couple candels, and i would throw in a single rose with a heart felt letter or card. Let it be a surprise. Keep her wondering. She will be all the more taken back by you sweetness. Hope i could help you.
2007-03-23 15:49:54 · answer #2 · answered by risa lyn 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This idea is not unique or extravagant, but it is something that I really appreciate from my husband: Say "thank you" for dinner, for keeping the house clean, for taking care of the kids, for getting an education (who wants a stupid mate?); all of the things that she does all the time. Those are the things that start to be taken for granted, you don't even think about it because she takes care of it. Also, helping around the house and with the kids. Pick up after yourself, clean up after dinner, get the kids ready for bed. While you are doing that, she can take a few minutes for herself; maybe a bubble bath or read a chapter in a novel while sipping some wine or eating a bit of chocolate. The big, one time romantic things are wonderful, but they are "one time" thanks for what she does all the time. Don't announce that you are going to start helping or saying thank you, just do it. You may find that she is more attentive and loving to you if you do what I have suggested. At least, that's how it has worked out for me and my husband of 30 years!
2007-03-23 15:50:30 · answer #3 · answered by GalfromCal_NM_TX 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Find a nice restaurant and have them pack you a picnic basket. And then try to find a quit and clean park or if your town has a arboretum arrange to have a romantic picnic.Then check with your local wine shoppe and buy a bottle of good champagne and two nice wine flutes. See if they have a gift box to put it in. Now if you remember how when you were in school and you would make a hart and wright so and so loves so and so.Well take the wine flutes to a jeweler and have them engraved with your name and hers with the loves and the hart and her name and yours the same so each glass say,s the same But opposite. Put the bottle and flute,s in a gift box with a hand written love note take her on the picnic and give her the gift. Now she has a romantic day out with her love and something for a keepsake. Also a pink Tyler Rose will be a good touch. Live to love and love to live.
2007-03-23 16:08:38 · answer #4 · answered by revtobadblack 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you ever think about just getting a sitter for the kids and sitting down for the night on a pallet in front of a fire all night talking and making love? Sometimes you don't need money to be romantic hanging out at home can be more romantic than anything money can buy. Go get a nice bottle of wine (if that's your taste) send the kids to g-ma's or a sitters and sit at home with your wife that should be a nice romantic gesture.
2007-03-23 15:40:59 · answer #5 · answered by Marie A 1 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Wow there are lots of great answers. How about something that you both can really laugh at? Maybe an evening out at your local comedy club. Or, better yet, do something so completely silly that you'll both laugh about it for years to come. For example: give yourselves a pair of the biggest, baddest water guns :o) Or rent a completely over the top Romeo or Shining Knight (or cute bunny, etc.) costume and seranade her (in public or at home, just sing really loud!). When my husband turned 50 I had a surprise party for him. I'd scanned and printed out a stack of enlarged photo's of him from childhood to the present - but all with him doing something interesting or goofy (like at 4 years old in lederhose! At 18, with long hair on a motorcycle. etc.) Then each of the guests picked out a photo and had to make up a story to go with it. It was about 2 1/2 hours of non-stop laughing - it was so so funny what people came up with. Afterwards, I taped each photo into a large scrapbook and had the guests write a few words about their stories. The whole thing turned out so much better than I ever imagined. On a more serious note, my husband recently surprised me with a gift of a dozen oil painting lessons - something I've always wanted to try but... And I surprised him once by booking us in for a couple's spa day (he loved it!) Whatever you decide, she'll know it comes from your heart so she'll love it. Have fun!
2007-03-23 19:30:50 · answer #6 · answered by zenobia2525 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I I think you have possibly done more than any other husband out there and your wife is quite a lucky woman! Has she ever mentioned something she wanted to do that she has not yet done? Anything at all? I don't see a spa day up there or is that covered under mini vacations? Is there a place she hasn't been you could take her to? Throw a 'just because' surprise party in her honor. I don't know...I'm fresh out of ideas!
2007-03-23 15:47:51 · answer #7 · answered by Sunidaze 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It made me happy reading all the things you have done already, you're both very lucky to have each other! Why not have a talk with her closest friends or your children about what might be her ideal gift? Maybe they can tell you any wishes she has that you haven't heard of by her.
Or you could take a picture of hers that she likes best, and comission a painter ( an art student would probably not be painfully expensive) to make a portrait of her. That would be special and unique.
2007-03-23 15:49:46 · answer #8 · answered by ladybird 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
~hmmm~ you have given her just about everything you can think about giving someone that you love to show how much they mean to you , well there seams to be one thing that you have not given her .. and thats you with out spending any money. and thats to me would mean the world to me as a woman then having money spent on me . that is something that money can never buy no matter how hard you would try . make it a night at home just the two of you and tell her just what she really means to you and let her know how you feel about her in every way there is and then show her just by being your self , and giving her your time , not letting anything stop the night, ( if need be sit up all night just talking about anything that she and you would like to but mostly her ) best of luck to you ....
2007-03-23 15:49:46 · answer #9 · answered by patti_buffkin2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like you spend alot of money on her. Do something that requires effort, not money, like a picnic in a nice place or cooking her dinner, then giving her a massage. Or play games with her (board games, video games, whatever) just make sure you both have FUN. Make all the effort you can to spend time with her. Just personally I would prefer that over gifts and holidays all the time.
2007-03-23 15:46:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you can afford it, spread out and try more exotic vacations or a ship cruise from Florida or California . If you find you like cruising, then you will never have to worry about gift surprises again. www.travelocity.com lists specials; they are VERY affordable, and there are bargain airlines to get you to the port.
Sometime do a GAG gift as well. Something truly atrocious and hideous for the house. Play the gag out a while before giving her the real gift.
2007-03-23 15:42:39 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋