Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Valentines Tips for Success... Spicing Up the Holiday


Valentine’s Day 2010....

Our shop is filled with heart cut outs and will soon be stocked with red roses as far as the eye can see!  Let me tell you, there will be about four pots of coffee consumed that day, per person.  We know that Valentine’s Day is on a Sunday this year.  In our experience, we’ve noticed that people tend to neglect the day of love when it falls on a Sunday.  There are a few reasons, but we’ll spare you the business logic.  Your brain doesn’t need to be functioning on high when you’re reading this. Sit back and relax and let us give you some advice on how to make the love-y stuff that we all enjoy last a tad bit longer.   

Ladies and gentlemen, we know that almost everyone loves to get flowers at work.  Trust us, our delivery guys spend more on gas that day than they do on almost any other day of the year.  You can still get the same (if not even better) response when Valentine’s Day is on a weekend by doing one of two things.  Listen, we’re spelling it out for you.  Write this down!   

Option One: Send the flowers on Thursday with a card that says “Dear Love, I just couldn’t wait three more days to say that you are the most beautiful, amazing, person in the world.”  If you have “surprise” Valentine’s Day plans, have us incorporate a little hint or riddle to Sunday‘s affairs.  Going out of town to the weekend?  Let us theme your flowers around the destination!  Why Thursday? Well, if there are any absent coworkers that day, your significant other can still show off your amazing efforts when they are back in the office on Friday.  Ah ha! Genius, I know. 

Option two: Have us send them on the Monday after your Valentines weekend activities.  Write this down again people.  Have the card say “Just because Valentine’s Day has passed, doesn’t mean that I shouldn’t shower you with the love you deserve every day of the year.”  Now, your significant other can keep them in the office for all his or her friends to envy for an entire workweek! Talk about your major brownie points.


Valentine’s Night- “Spice it up baby!”

A girl friend of mine asked me the other day why Cupid represents Valentine’s Day. She said, “Love is supposed to be sexy. The last thing that comes to my mind when I think sexy is a chubby naked baby with wings.” Ha!  We’ve realized that flowers have kind of taken the Valentine’s role of sweet, cute, and thoughtful.  Oh no. We can have way more fun than that!  Here’s the Cosmo cover story version of flowers. 

·        Did you know? If a woman wears red on a night out, a man is likely to spend more money to attract her. Apparently men subconsciously associate the color red with sex. Hmmm.  Explains the red lipstick, too!  So, let’s start arousing those visual senses with some sensuously dark crimson toned flowers i.e. dark long stem roses. The second color that is most associated to sex is black, which followed by dark purples-the perfect flower for this the dark eggplant mini calla lily.
·        Nix the baby’s breath accent. Baby’s breath is a softer fluffier flower. We want to stay far away from the fluff and use more structured flowers to mimic the long lines of the gorgeous human body. 
·        Ask us to put your arrangement in a vase with an hourglass shape. It will mimic that sexy shape that we kick our behinds at the gym for.
·        Have us do a black satin or animal print ribbon cross wrap on the vase to make it look like it’s wearing a corset (perhaps this is similar to your lingerie!).
·        So, you know those rose petals that we throw on our beds or bedroom floors? The night before put them in a zip lock bag with some cinnamon sticks or ground cinnamon (the sticks aren‘t as messy though) and stick them in your refrigerator. Cinnamon is a natural aphrodisiac, and now, it’s fused to the velvety touch of rose petals…mmmm. Imagine rolling around in those!  For an even stronger scent, set Red Hot’s on the night stand next to your flowers, or have us hide a few in the petals of the roses.  Then, you can suck on a few while you’re in bed and kiss that cinnamon power even farther. 
·        A final touch, there are these handy little waterproof LED lights called Acolytes. Drop one into the flower vase when you turn out the lights for a little glow in your otherwise dark bedroom. Go for a classic clear night-light or spice it up with a sultry red glow. Your flowers themselves will even glow. It’s the modern alternative to candles.

Now, turn on some sensual music. Combine it with that lacy number in your top drawer and you’ve got yourself (and your lucky lover) an arousing… florally erotic…sexy Valentine’s night… with each of your five’s senses peaking!
 
Author
Dawn McCreary, Events Designer, Blumz... by JRDesigns