Valentine gifts

With Valentine’s Day looming around the corner, it may be worth starting to think about what you will be dazzling your better half with this year. With the shops seeming to be full of so much rubbish these days, it can be difficult knowing where to start, and avoiding the whole chocolate or teddy bears ideas.

A new growing trend is the notion of personalised items and can include anything from uploading a photo of your loved one on to a mouse mat or engraving a special message for them on a hammer. However, if you want something a little more special than these (at least we hope you do) then we’re here to help. We’ve compiled a list of some of the best personalised Valentine’s Day gift options to help make you very popular on February 14th.

What could be better to have the perfect romantic tipple in than your very own, new personalised wine glasses? (Or, if you’re feeling a bit more flush…champagne flutes!) Or if drinking isn’t your thing, photo mugs are a lovely option for their morning dose of caffeine. Choose a lovely photo of the two of you together, or go for a funny one to make them giggle.

If your other half is a fan of photos of the two of you, why not frame their favourite in a personalised one? You could take a trip to Max Speilmann and have one of your favourite snaps edited to be even more special, too. Or if you’re feeling a bit more creative, you could put together a photo album of all your pictures which would be a lovely thing to look over in the future.

If your loved one likes nothing more than settling down after a hard day with a massive block of chocolate, treating them to their very own personalised bar

will surely be a winner. You can purchase these and view a great range personalised Valentine’s Day gifts at Getting Personal. 

Putting your baking skills to the test and making them something yourself is also set to give you some valuable brownie points.

For the loved one who likes the finer things in life make their day with a piece of engraved jewellery or engraved cufflinks. A bracelet with an engraved heart charm is a lovely choice and is considered quite a safe option too, as most females would no doubt really like this option. If cufflinks with a message on seems a bit much to you and a bit soppy, why not put the date you got together on one, and then the date now on the other one? This will remind them of your anniversary (not that they’d forget!) and when you gave them their lovely gift.

Don’t forget the card! Personalised cards seem to be everywhere these days, so you can pick them up fairly cheaply and very easily. Most sites will also help you distinguish between funny ones, soppy ones and stylish ones to get the message just right.