Offering your sweetheart a cute mug or a teddy bear? Just like last year, and the year before? Although you can never go wrong with chocolate, flowers and champagne, there are other gifts that can make Valentine’s Day even more special.
1. A star as a gift
Does your love reach to the stars? Then show this to the love of your life by giving them their own star! There is a service available to everyone that allows you to name a star.
Once you choose a star, you can name it after a thing or place important to the two of you, or simply after your loved one, and from now on the star will be registered with this name in the official database. You will also receive a certificate that includes the star’s coordinates, ensuring that your surprise is truly unique.
2. Nobility
The Principality of Sealand is a tiny, artificial island seven miles off the coast of Great Britain: a micronation, i.e. a self-proclaimed but internationally unrecognized state-like entity, where the only building is a sea fortress built during World War II.
However, the family that “proclaimed” the microstate insists on its sovereignty, and by now their strange idea has grown into an entire movement, so much so that they even carried out a coup here in 1978.
The “country” has long supported itself by hosting servers, but now their main source of income is their website, where anyone can buy nobility. You can make your beloved a lord or lady, and receive an official certificate of the title.
3. Unique handwritten jewelry
A skilled jeweler can turn your handwriting into a unique bracelet or ring, or you can have your message engraved on a pendant – there are places that also offer image engraving, in which case all you have to do is write the text, for example, “I love you!”, then take a photo and have the resulting image engraved on the selected jewelry or key chain.
If you want something even more mysterious and intimate, you can have the waves of a voice message – for example, the way you say your loved one’s name, “I love you”, or some other text – engraved on the jewelry. To do this, you just need to find a program that converts the audio file into sound waves. There are some players that do this automatically, in which case you just need to take a screenshot.
4. A special map
There must be at least a place that is important to the two of you – whether it was the place pf your first meeting, your first date, your first home, or even the scene of your wedding or your first kiss.
For this unique gift, all you have to do is enter the address of the place into a map program – for example, Google Maps – then print the map and insert it into a picture frame under a pre-cut template. You can design the template with a heart, a house, a tree, a star, or anything you want, making this unique, yet affordable surprise even more personal.