{"id":3577,"date":"2020-02-04T14:30:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T14:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/?p=3577"},"modified":"2020-02-03T15:38:09","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T15:38:09","slug":"the-geronigo-guide-to-valentines-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/the-geronigo-guide-to-valentines-gifts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Geronigo Guide to Valentine’s Gifts."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\nTraditional\nGifts for Valentine’s Day<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These\ncan be listed as chocolates, jewellery, perfume, teddy bears and\nroses. Anyone notice that these are very female- orientated? Yes, I\nknow some men wear jewellery, and many use perfumes but all women\nwear jewellery, even if it is just one piece, and all women use\nperfume of some description, from the expensive stuff through to\nessential oils. So, I’m sticking my neck out and saying Valentine’s\nDay is directed at women receiving gifts more than men. Is that fair?\nNo, I don’t think so. Men love romantic gestures too, but maybe they\nwould be less blown away if they receive gifts from this list. I\ndon’t know for sure, but that’s the impression I get. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Valentine’s\nDay Cards<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Valentine’s\nDay cards or messages can be dated right back to Saxon times when it\nwas traditional to leave anonymous messages, and sometimes gifts, at\nthe door of a loved one and run away. Many changes happened over the\nyears, but being anonymous, and a man sending the message to the\nwoman prevailed. Even as late as the early to mid-20th century, it\nwould have been unthinkable for a woman to send a man a Valentine’s\ncard. It would have been seen as brazen and not ladylike. Just like a\nmarriage proposal, men were supposed to make the first move. Some\nleeway was given in the 5th century when allegedly St Bridget\ncomplained to St Patrick that women had to wait too long to receive a\nmarriage proposal. According to the legend, St. Patrick said that the\nyearning females could propose on one day in February during the leap\nyear – February 29th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pinched\nfrom the Pagans?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Valentine’s\nDay was, like a lot of Christian celebratory holidays, stolen from\nthe Pagan’s way back in history, this particular day in Roman times.\nOriginally Valentine’s Day was the Roman festival of Lupercalia,\nwhich was a fertility celebration commemorated annually on February\n15, but was recast by Pope Gelasius in circa 496, who declared\nFebruary 14 to be St. Valentine’s Day as three holy men called\nValentine were, amazingly, martyred on the same day – February 14th<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Others\nbelieve that Valentine’s Day was named after a prisoner of the Roman\nCaesar, Claudius, who sent his heart’s desire a letter before he was\nexecuted and signed it ‘from your Valentine’. The letter was dated\n14th February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whatever\nthe truth is, we now have Valentine’s Day as an annual tradition; a\nday when we express our romantic love and the modern meaning and\ntraditions of giving a gift still prevail today just like it always\nhas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now\nWhat Happens on Valentine’s Day?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The\nfive traditional gifts are still popular, but women are as likely as\nmen to be the gift-givers. The most significant change is that we are\nmuch more inventive when it comes to gifts now with experiences high\non the gift list. Giving a gift voucher or booking someone in for a\nromantic hot\nair balloon<\/a><\/strong> ride\nis very popular, or for the thrill seekers a high-speed boat\nride<\/a><\/strong> <\/strong>or\njumping out of a plane together, which is not only popular for\nValentine’s Day, but many adventurous couples skydive<\/strong><\/a>\non their wedding day in full wedding gear. I’ve even heard of a\nwedding day paintball<\/a><\/strong> session\nwith the bride’s dress looking spectacular splatted in multi-coloured\npaint. There are lots more activity adventures to choose from if you\nwant to deviate from the traditional, which we can thoroughly\nrecommend if you’re going to pump a bit of adrenalin into your\nrelationship. Pop onto the Geronigo\u00ae\nwebsite<\/a><\/strong>,\nor better still download the Geronigo\u00ae\nApp<\/a><\/strong> onto\nyour phone and spice up you and your loved one’s life any day of the\nyear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\nCJ<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Make Valentine’s Day extra special this year by making it unique, original and exciting, and one that you’ll both remember long after the red roses have wilted or the choccies have been devoured. Gifts that will set both your romantic hearts racing.… Read More The Geronigo Guide to Valentine’s Gifts.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,554,839,27,10,170,1,128],"tags":[861,862,720,80,859,860,671,13,766,858,129,130],"class_list":["post-3577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bucket-list","category-hot-air-ballooning","category-occasionsandevents","category-paintball","category-skydiving","category-social-media","category-uncategorised","category-valentines-day","tag-boatride","tag-chocolate","tag-firstdate","tag-gifts","tag-giftsforyourpartner","tag-hotairballoon","tag-paintball","tag-skydive","tag-unusualdateideas","tag-valentine","tag-valentines","tag-valentinesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3583,"href":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577\/revisions\/3583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}