Valentine's Day Cards

Valentine's Day Cards

You'll give them a toothache with our sweet photo greeting cards. In sugary shades of pink, they are great for your sweetheart and perfect for sending to your loved ones too.

Valentine's Day Party Invitations

Beautify Valentine's Day this year with our lovely party invitations. With a wallpaper filled with a floral damask, we've taken this holiday to a whole other level with modern grace and style.

Children's Valentine's Day Cards

Bees are everywhere these days. And you'll understand why when you see these adorable greeting cards. You can almost hear them buzzing away to say "bee mine" this Valentine's Day!

Photo Cards for Valentine's Day

Prepare to be inspired! Roses are in bloom in our Valentine's photo greeting cards. A beautiful quote in the corner exquisitely captures what is most important about Valentine's Day-to love each other.

Valentine's Day Cards for Kids

All children love teddy bears so why not choose these Valentine's Day greetings? Our adorable cards feature a teddy bear in a tutu proclaiming her love. Your daughter will enjoy sending these to friends and family who will also love receiving them.

Valentine's Day Party Invitations

Send out your Valentine's Day party invitations with a little sass! They'll know that your get together is the place to go when they receive these. Our hip cards invite guests for some cocktails and a lot of fun.

1. Open the car door
2. Pull out the chair for her to sit in
3. Offer to buy her a drink instead of assuming she will because her dad is rich
4. Give her a *real* massage, not just the short, 2 minute kind
5. Tell her you'll rub her feet before you go to bed, then actually do it
6. Have flowers delivered to her work so it looks like you planned ahead instead of coming home late with the last bunch from the grocery store
7. Take the time to write something thoughtful on the card you give her, try drawing from the inside jokes you have
8. Don't forget to make dinner reservations instead of waiting until the last night and settling for whatever you can find
9. Dress up, doesn't matter how long you've been with her, she still likes to see you in your best attire
10. Make eye contact, this is the day to be especially careful of "wandering eyes", all of your focus should be on your date
11. It's not just about money, gifts you give should be thoughtful
12. Take her for a walk after dinner at the beach or park
13. Compliment her on how beautiful she is, even though you only took 10 minutes to get ready, she put time and energy into making herself look good
14. Eat a breath mint!

1. Remember that Valentines Day isn't just for women, do something thoughtful for your man
2. Wear that dress that your man loves, even if you think it makes you look fat
3. Order something besides a salad at dinner, men like it when their woman really eats
4. Take a nap in the afternoon so you don't get tired early
5. Praise him in front of other people, especially your friends
6. At dinner, tell him he should order his favorite drink, even if you think it's too expensive
7. Ask him to explain something that he knows a lot about
8. Send him flowers! Men like to be remembered too!
9. Have the house decorated with flower petals and incense ready for him when he gets home
10. For a gift, give him something that you might normally roll your eyes at (ex. tech gadget, video game, favorite cigar)
11. Tell him to have a beer and a snack while he waits for you to get ready
12. Kiss his neck
13. Don't nag him about ANYTHING, that includes: driving on the way there, what he chooses to wear or not wear, how much he tips the waitress, etc...
14. Be direct, tell him what you want to do, otherwise if you ask him what he wants to do, mean it.

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We've added videos with some humor and perhaps some good advice mixed in to keep your significant other appeased on this romantic yet frequently stressful holiday.

Dubious Valentine's Day Events

February 14th, 1382

The first known association of Valentine's Day with romantic love is in 1382's "Parlement of Foules" by Geoffrey Chaucer, but the earliest origins of the holiday can be found hundreds of years earlier. The date was likely named in honor of a priest who was clubbed, stoned and then beheaded in the 3rd century for marrying young couples in contravention of Claudius II's edict forbidding marriage. That's not the sort of cheery story one might expect for the origin of a holiday devoted to romance and love!

February 14th, 1537

King Henry VIII declares by Royal Charter that England will celebrate February 14th as "Saint Valentine's Day". To Recognize a King best remembered for marrying six women, divorcing two of them and then beheading two more as the formal founder of Valentine's Day might cause a few modern snickers. Back then, however, a giggle in Hank's presence would have surely landed you in the dreaded Tower of London - your only date being that of your execution.

February 14th, 1876

For Elisha Gray, who applied for a caveat on the same day Alexander Graham Bell applied for his telephone patent, the holiday was definitely not a cause for celebration. Bell's name is the 5th entry on the U.S. Patent Office's list; Gray's was 39th. Holding the patent gave Bell the exclusive right to produce phones in the USA for the next 19 years and solidified his place in history. Elisha likely enjoyed a candlelit dinner for one.

February 14th, 1929

One chilly morning in prohibition-era Chicago, tardiness makes George "Bugs" Moran's holiday the first Valentine's Day of the rest of his life. By the time he arrived at his garage on North Clark Street seven of his gang had already been riddled by Thompson sub-machine gun bullets courtesy of Al Capone's rival hoods in the infamous event known as the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre". Moran's men had admitted five of Capone's men to the garage because two of them were disguised as police officers and driving a stolen squad car.

February 14th, 1942

Alexandra Hospital in Malaysia is the scene of an even worse massacre a very unlucky 13 years later during the Battle of Singapore. Invading Japanese troops began by bayoneting Lt. Western, the British medical officer who surrendered to them with a white flag and then went on to kill more than 300 other doctors, nurses and patients.

February 14th, 1942

Lt. General J. DeWitt, Commanding General of the Western Defense Command, sends a memorandum to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson recommending the removal of Japanese from the Western Coast of the USA stating, "There are indications that the very fact that no sabotage has taken place to date is a disturbing and confirming indication that such action will be taken." Five days later President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, giving the War Department the authority to designate military zones "from which any or all persons may be excluded." Home evictions and internment of those of Japanese lineage continued until December of 1944.

February 14th, 1945

British and American forces bomb the German city of Dresden for two days straight. Estimates vary from 35,000 to 135,000 dead but there is no question that "precision saturation bombing" using incendiary bombs successfully created a firestorm which devastated the population. Each small fire joined with others until the city was ablaze; the oxygen being sucked into the fire created tornado like winds pulling everything, and everyone, into the white hot flames. Those who weren't burned to death were asphyxiated as the flames consumed all of the available oxygen.

February 14th, 1965

Malcolm X's home is firebombed but no injuries are reported. After 15 years of involvement with the Nation of Islam X's approach to Black Nationalism varied from those of Elijah Muhammad to such an extent he announced the formation of his own Harlem-based organization. Malcolm X received a number of death threats as he became openly critical of the Nation of Islam and Elijah Muhammad's behavior in particular. Eleven days after the firebombing, in front of a crowd of hundreds including his pregnant wife and three of their children, he was assassinated by three men with ties to the Nation of Islam.

February 14th, 1984

Under the Native Administration Act of 1927 the community at Mogopa, west of Johannesburg in South Africa, had been designated a "Black spot". 300 homes and a cluster of community buildings were bulldozed in the last of the forcible resettlements carried out by the military under Apartheid. It would be more than a decade before the courts returned all of their lands to those who had been "resettled".

February 14th, 1989

Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini broadcasts a "fatwa" on Tehran Radio calling on Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of "The Satanic Verses," a novel he condemned as blasphemous. Rushdie remained "underground" until Iranian President Mohammed Khatami withdrew state support of the fatwa in 1998.

February 14th, 1997

The last of the remaining Jahalin Bedouin families in Palestine are forcibly removed from an encampment which they had occupied for over 40 years so as to facilitate the expansion of the Ma'ale Adumim settlement. On May 28, 1996 the Israeli High Court of Justice had approved the eviction of the 3000 member tribe in order to clear the area for Jewish settlement. The offered "relocation" site was 500 meters from a garbage dump even though Israeli law requires a minimum of 2000 meters.

February 14th, 2003

Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) peace marches in Zimbabwe were broken up by baton-wielding police who arrested at least 88 of the protestors. WOZA was declared illegal under Zimbabwe's Public Order and Security Act, an act which limits free expression. Three years later in Bulawayo, WOZA's peaceful march against economic and social inequalities faced by Zimbabwean women was also broken up by armed police officers and 60 to 100 women were arrested.

February 14th, 2004

In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal Water Park collapses, killing 28 people and wounding more than 100 others with cuts from a thick shower of glass shards. The engineer who designed the structure claimed that terrorists must have attacked the attraction, but the true cause turned out to be his faulty design.

February 14th, 2006

Five women, members of the anti-war group, the Raging Grannies, were arrested at a protest outside a Washington D.C. military recruitment office. The arrests occurred after the Grannies announced that they had come to enlist, chanting, "if someone must die in Iraq, let it be the old." The women were not charged but investigative news reports indicate that their organization has since been under surveillance and the American Civil Liberties Union has commented on the "domestic spying".

Here's hoping this coming Valentine's Day is better than the aforementioned 14. Massacres, police states, war, greed - it's enough to make getting dumped by your sweetheart seem like a walk in the park. If anyone still thinks they've had it rough on February 14th they may be forever out of range of Cupid's bow. It's a better idea just to dust yourself off, make sure that your breath is minty fresh and start practicing some new pick-up lines - because you've probably had it pretty good in comparison, Casanova.

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