While nothing beats a romantic candle-lit dinner, here are some activities you can do with your partner while waiting for your dinner reservations
Love isn’t just in the atmosphere for a candle-lit dinner. They’re present in held hands, in eye contact, and in sweet, secret smiles. A romantic dinner isn’t the only way to celebrate Valentine’s Day. In fact, there are some fun activities you can do before your dinner reservations for an even more romantic day.
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Clay Date
There’s just something romantic about learning something new with each other. Whether you’re crafting heart-shaped mugs for each other or a new set of bowls for your home, you and your partner will for sure have a beautiful, romantic time with each other. Wabi Sabi Studio is hosting pottery workshops for two people from the 14th to the 16th, which includes 2 glasses of wine for the couple. For a more beginner-friendly activity, they also have a Mug Making class that’s more hand-building than wheel throwing.
On the 15th, Wabi Sabi is also collaborating with Studio Artfix to host Portraits in Clay, an intimate and artistic way of immortalizing your partner through clay sculpting. These clay workshops are all about finding intimacy and beauty in learning new things, especially with the people you love.
Connect with Nature
Nature and love are all around us, and we can certainly feel these through the many nature activities you could do with your loved one. Moss Escape’s Miniature Landscape Terrarium Workshop. For two hours, you and your partner can learn how to design and build a miniature world, just like how you and your partner have built a world with each other.
Petals of Love MNL is also hosting a basic floral arrangement workshop, making it a beautiful opportunity to get intimate and crafty with your partner. Pair your partner with fresh flowers and sweet, floral scents, and you’ve got a Valentine’s Day to remember.
Sparkling Jewelry
Jewelry is one of the best gifts you could give a woman, and luckily, Cari will be in Dean & Deluca for a pop-up on the 14th to 16th. The jewelry brand will be selling quality jewelry, which are perfect for your girlfriend! You can also get matching piercings and semi-permanent tattoos with each other. There will also be a DIY bracelet making activity you can gift each other, and even matching permanent jewelry services—a very sweet way of professing your love as a couple.
Fragrance Making
They say that scents can influence many things, such as our feelings of affection, much more if our love ones use your favorite scent of them. On the 15th, Pahinga Store is hosting a fragrance-creating workshop in Auring’s, Makati. With over 40 scents to choose from, you can opt to create a room linen spray or a small bottle of perfume that you can take home!
The Art in Love
Museum dates are simply a classic. With the many museums in the metro now, you have variety of options to bring your partner to view the art—but we all know that your partner is the finest and most beautiful piece of art you’ll ever see. Recently, Ayala Malls Manila Bay just opened the Philippines’ largest immersive museum yet called a:museum. Much different from your regular art museum, a:museum shows art in a more unique way, creating a multi-sensory experience for the audience. How romantic to experience this as a couple!
Featured Image and Photos: MEGA ARCHIVES, WABI SABI, MOSS ESCAPE, CARI, PAHINGA STORE (via Instagram) AYALA MALLS MANILA BAY (via Facebook)
