Valentines Buying Tips

If you want to save money on Valentines Day flowers, choose something besides red roses. Long-stemmed reds continue to be the most popular Valentines flower of choice and are therefore among the most expensive.

Tulips are a great option for keeping down the price. Since many are grown locally in greenhouses they're available all year in a variety of colors. Red, white and pink tulips are a popular Valentines Day combination.

For best selection of roses, both varieties and colour, place your orders early. Remember there is huge demand for roses at Valentines Day and the closer you get to the 14th, the less your selection options are.

Send your flowers to her work if possible. Most women would agree, there's nothing like getting a bouquet of flowers at work.

Valentine’s Day is not just for lovers. Surprise a co-worker with bright sunflowers, your child's teacher with carnations, or a friend with a bunch of carnations.

Send a guy Flowers? Sure, go ahead and send him flowers, but think first. What kind of guy is he? Is it something he would really like and appreciate?

Stay away from potted plants. Some are beautiful, and it's true, they last much longer than cut flowers, and you get more for your buck, but cut flowers say, "I threw caution to the wind. I did not do the sensible thing today. I send you these because today, I am thinking with my heart, not with my head."

Follows is some history about Valentines Day:

The shortest month of February perhaps brings the greatest moments of joy and celebration for every couple across the globe. This is because of the fêted occasion of Valentines Day that falls on the 14th of this month. Valentines Day or the day of saint valentines is the day of love and affection. Love is in the air on this day when lovers verbalize the language of their heart and make each other feel thou preciousness.

Just like there is a story or a reason behind every celebration, there are tales associated with the Valentines Day too. Every year 14th February is cheered with exchange of loads of gifts and feelings. But according to a story actually it is the day when a devotee of love sacrificed his life for this most beautiful feeling which is yet the cause of humanity on earth.  

Thousands of years ago in 3rd century B.C there was a saint, Valentine, in Rome. He was a priest in the kingdom of Saint Claudius II. One fine day the king realized that married men do not turn out to be proficient soldiers for family bonds and relationships weaken them. So in order to have good quality soldiers and a strong military force he outlawed marriage for young men.

But saint Valentine who had throughout his life materialized the feeling of love by tying nuptial bonds opposed the king’s instructions. He went against his orders and continued coordinating marriages clandestinely. But soon emperor Claudius II got information about it. Consequently he decided to punish saint Valentine by putting him to death on 14th February. 

From that day onwards 14th February is memorized as the day that marks eternality of the bond of love and the spirits of all the true lovers.

But this is not the only fable hanging behind Valentines Day. According to another famous one, Valentine was a captive who did fall in love with his jailor’s daughter. On the day when Valentine was taken to persecution he wrote and left a letter for his girlfriend. That day was 14th February and the love letter had the sign underneath as “Your Valentine”.

Thus this day came to be recognized and celebrated as the Valentines Day. It commenced the tradition of exchange of love letters and other instruments to express one’s feelings of affection.

Though it is very difficult to know the true identity of the man Valentine, it is for sure that he was an idol of love who died but proved that the flame of love can never be extinguished. Love always stands unbeaten and victorious despite of countless attempts made by people to trounce it and this is the primary cause to rejoice the Valentines Daylow is the history Of Valentines Day.

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