It’s love day. Valentine’s Day can be fun whether you’re single or have a special someone. Gather your friends together for a special Valentine’s Day dinner party or have a group of couples there for a special group date. There are a variety of themes to choose from. Each of them are customizable.
A Valentine’s Day dinner party can be fancy and extravagant or a simple, casual soiree. Choose an option below or combine your favorites for a beautiful evening.
Rom Com
Showing all of the countless ways love on the big screen is displayed will invoke a sense of comfort and familiarity with your guests. Go casual with this one and have a pajama movie night or dress up like old Hollywood movie stars. You could even have guests dress as their favorite romcom character.
Pick your favorite movie and style your event to match or pick a group of movies and place movie posters at place settings.
Themed Food: Cozy Roast Chicken and Mashed Potatoes
Activity: Movie Showing or DIY popcorn bar
Chocolate
Love it or hate it (lol I’m calling you an odd ball if this is you), chocolate is the food for Valentine’s day. Decorate with lush decor symbolic of the location where cacao beans are usually grown. Have a fondue table with various accompaniments. You could focus on the chocolate color. Have your guests wear chocolate outfits. Use chocolate brown table settings. For favors, make a custom chocolate bar wrapper with your guests names on them.
Themed Food: Caffe Mocha Lamb Lollipops
Signature Drink: Hot Chocolate (you could make it iced as well)
Activity: Make a simple chocolate from cacao beans. Source artisan chocolate and have a tasting.
Gallery of Love
Art is a beautiful way love is celebrated. Turn your location into an art gallery. Display pieces of your preferred medium on your table setting. Share small, independent artists with links to support them.
Themed Food: Colorful Crudite
Activity: Create a simple painting by following along with a video. Have a photo wall with polaroids. Everyone can put their photos in frames and take home as a favor.
Pasta and Passion
Celebrate this passionate day by creating pasta. Decorate with herbs and produce on your tablescape. Provide aprons for everyone. Use quality ingredients like farm fresh eggs and high quality flour.
Themed Food: Have already made pasta as an option.
Activity: Make your own pasta
Everything Pink
This theme is super versatile and fun. You could have all of your guests dress in different shades of pink, decorate only with pink and maybe a few slashes of white for balance. Add food for decor like pomegranates along with pink peonies.
Themed Food: Pink Pasta Ravioli
Drink: Pink Lady Mocktail
Activity: Have a fun game night and choose board games or group grames.
Pizza and Pjs
This is a fun casual theme. You can combine this with a movie or with game night. Have your guests dress in satin Pjs for an elevated look or with a certain color palette. Get customized pizza boxes with the date of the party and the guests names to take their leftovers.
Themed Food: Salad to eat with the pizza
Activity: Make the pizza. Buy premade dough from a local pizza shop and have everyone add their favorite toppings.
