Do something different for your date this weekend and celebrate the Christmas time by breaking free from the moldy old traditions. We’ve got some nice dating advice! Don’t get us wrong, traditions can be great. However, sometimes, we want to do something out of the usual. Instead of mindlessly watching Christmas movies like Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer with your dearest for the eighty-billionth time, get a little creepy this Christmas and watch films like The Nightmare Before Christmas. Get inspired with your sweetie to decorate your place in a non-traditional way and invite your friends over for this eerie NOEL!
Here are some indoor date ideas that will allow you to embrace the Christmas spirit, but also allow you to do something different:
If you forgot to go shopping for your sweetie, no worries! This is a great opportunity for a fun date idea. Grab your babe and tackle the crowds as you take on last-minute Christmas shopping together. Pick out presents the two of you will really appreciate, and share some laughs as you choose gifts for your friends and family.
Here are a few dating tips for what to do on your date night:
The holiday season is one of the most beautiful times of the year — a time when people decorate their homes with twinkling lights, garlands, wreaths, menorahs, and even adorable penguins. Get into the spirit and spark some love this weekend by taking a romantic, moonlit drive with your sweetie as you cruise through your neighborhood checking out all of the Christmas and Hanukkah lights.
Rekindle the magic of the holidays with your babe and admire the beautiful displays with these dating tips for your upcoming date night:
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Go horseback riding with your love this weekend. Photo: sinada / Bigstock.com
By Kristin Mattern
Spring is in the air. Take advantage of the warming weather and hit the road with your man. Head to the racetrack to enjoy the fresh air and excitement with your dearest, or get a little romantic and go for a trail ride. However you welcome the new season, you’re sure to feel the love blossom.
Friends partying at a club. Photo: pressmaster / Bigstock.com
By Kristin Mattern
Kick start the spark of love this weekend by taking your sweetie to see a laser light show and to play some laser tag. Keep the electric feel going by hitting up a club with your cutie and getting down on the dance floor as the lights flash and the disco ball twirls. You’re sure to light up each other’s world as the two of you dance the night away on this high amplitude powered date!
Group of friends toasting at a bar. Photo: Kzenon / Bigstock.com
By Kristin Mattern
What would St. Patrick’s Day be without a bar crawl? Grab your leprechaun love and something green — because on St. Patty’s Day, everyone is a little Irish! Make a day of it and start the morning off by viewing a parade with your sweetie. Then head over to the local strip to tour the bars. Once you and your cutie are tired of the bar scene, head back home to keep the party going with your friends. The two of you are sure to strike a pot of gold with this fun date idea!
Man showing his girlfriend how to play pool. Photo: Jasminko Ibrakovic / Bigstock.com
By Kristin Mattern
This weekend, impress your cutie with your sweet moves at the bar. Get a little flirty by showing him your pool hall expertise, and then take aim at love as you play darts together. Have a friendly competition while you share wings and drinks for a fun date night.
Couple cuddling in bed. Photo: monkeybusinessimages / Bigstock.com
By Kristin Mattern
Go back in time this weekend and invite your cutie over for a good, old-fashioned slumber party! Break out the sleeping bags and grab your silliest pajamas for this fun date night that will have the two of you giggling like a couple of teenagers.
Happy couple at a spa. Photo: dolgachov / Bigstock.com
By Kristin Mattern
Who says you can’t swim in the winter? And no, we don’t mean join the Polar Bear Club! This weekend, take your snow bunny for a spa getaway and dive into love. You’’ll both enjoy this romantic and relaxing date idea.
Happy couple on a boat. Photo: Goodluz / Bigstock.com
By Kristin Mattern
Love can cross boundaries, conquer differences, and even span oceans, but being in a relationship with someone who is Cartier when you are simply Kay can be a bit tricky. Maybe you and your partner are on an equal footing in terms of cash, but you’re a savvy saver, and he’s a spend-thrift. If you and your significant other’s lifestyles (or wallets) are on opposite sides of the fence, here are some tips to bring you closer together. …Want the rest? Click here for more
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Valentine’s Day is all about love, but it isn’t just for loving others: it’s for loving yourself too! On this day, treat your body like a temple and give yourself the TLC you deserve with Lipocore from FA Engineered Nutrition.
FA Engineered Nutrition is spearheaded by one of the most influential women in the Sports Nutrition Industry, Liz Gaspari, and seasoned fitness professional and international bestselling author, James Villepigue. With their vision of sports health, their company works to provide the most effective products for any body. From cyclists to tennis players to MMA fighters, FA Engineered Nutrition’s products provide synergistic effects that bring amazing results to everyone.
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This Valentine’s Day,CupidsPulse.com will be giving away one bottle of thermogenic supplements from Lipocore!
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There’s no better way to commemorate how you spend your Valentine’s Day this year than with selfies of you on a date or you hanging with the girls during a night on the town. But those awkward angles and one-handed pics can sometimes leave you with a less than stellar photo! If you haven’t perfected the art of a selfie yet, you can now make every picture a glamour shot with ShutterBall from Audiovox!
ShutterBall works by triggering the coordinating app on your phone to take a still or video, which means that you can wirelessly hold the ShutterBall in one hand with your phone in the other. You can even set your phone down to take that epic pic or footage that you’ve been dreaming of. Compatible with both Android 2.2 or later and Apple iOS 6.0 or later, this must-have phone accessory is simple to set up and easy to use. Just download the app, and you’re ready to go!
Small enough to hold in your palm and with a convenient loop to keep your ShutterBall handy on your jeans, key chain, or purse, you’ll always be able to snap the perfect photo. This Valentine’s Day, give someone special the gift of a beautiful selfie!
This Valentine’s Day, CupidsPulse.com will be giving away a ShutterBall Selfie from AudioVox!
To enter for a chance to win please email cupid@cupidspulse.comwith your full name, address, email, and daytime phone number NO LATER THAN 8 p.m. EST today. In the subject line, please write “Shutterball Selfie.” Winners will be contacted on Monday, February 17, 2014. You can enter each contest only once. Good luck!
What better way to spend Valentine’s Day than by turning up the volume and dancing to the music? Sure, you could go out to a club and chill to the songs that the DJ selects, but having your own dance party or intimate evening is much more fun with 808 bluetooth CANZ from AudioVox!
Do you feel like heading out for the day? Take 808 CANZ with you! It’s compact size and six-hour rechargeable battery life makes it perfect to tag along whether you’re heading to the beach, having a picnic or just hanging at a friend’s house. Using Bluetooth and wireless capabilities, you can link up whatever tunes you’re in the mood for and jam the night away. CANZ comes in metallic blue, red or silver and is very fun and functional.
This Valentine’s Day, CupidsPulse.com will be giving away a speaker from 808 CANZ!
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Left to Right: Renee, Lana, and Jennifer Graziano. Credit: Illumination PR
This post is sponsored by Jennifer, Renee, and Lana Graziano.
By Kristin Mattern
One of the greatest ways to show someone you love them is by cooking them up a delicious meal. Another way some couples and families show their affection is by having a rousing argument around the dinner table while surrounded by a yummy landscape of food: a tradition carried on by the stars of Mob Wives and the Graziano sisters.
Mob Wives creator and executive producer Jennifer, Mob Wives star Renee, and restaurateur Lana have come together to provide you with sensational recipes that will make you a star in your own kitchen and give you something to banter over this Valentine’s Day.
Their new book, “How To Use A Meat Cleaver” is a full-color cookbook which features 100 of their most-coveted family recipes including Lana’s Famous Meatballs, Lobster Arriagiatta, Sunday Gravy, Sausage and Peppers, Fillet Mignon and more. The girls also share some personal family stories with their readers.
Instead of braving the crowds and eating mediocre-mass-produced-food this Valentine’s Day, cook like a Graziano and create cuisine that will impress your partner or your girlfriends with your culinary prowess. After all, sometimes the way to someone’s heart is through their stomach! Especially if you’re dating a foodie.
This Valentine’s Day, CupidsPulse.com will be giving away a signed copy of “How to Use a Meat Cleaver!”
To enter for a chance to win please email cupid@cupidspulse.comwith your full name, address, email, and daytime phone number NO LATER THAN 4 p.m. EST today. In the subject line, please write “Cookbook.” Winners will be contacted on Monday, February 17, 2014. You can enter each contest only once. Good luck!
Food can be a sensual experience as you and your date delve from sugary depths to rich heights and spicy plateaus. If your tastebuds are looking for a sensory playground that sampling a variety of cuisine afford, nobody delivers this kind of food discovery like Goldbely!
Founded by self-proclaimed food lovers on a quest for exquisite taste sensations, Goldbely believes that food is best enjoyed when shared with those you love and the best foods to share are those that excite the curiosity. By exploring the US for the most interesting kinds of foods, Goldbely connects foodies with delicious eats from gourmet food purveyors.
Maybe you live in Tennessee, and crave a real New York deli style pastrami on rye. Or you and your bestie are Washington natives dying to have some authentic Texas BBQ. Goldbely hooks you up with whatever food it is you yen for but are separated from by those long stretches of majestic fields of grain and purple mountains. Why go out for Valentine’s Day when you can have a unique dinner delivered right to your front door!
This Valentine’s Day CupidsPulse.com will be giving away a $50 gift card from Goldbely!
To enter for a chance to win please email cupid@cupidspulse.com with your full name, address, email, and daytime phone number NO LATER THAN 9 a.m. EST today. In the subject line, please write “Goldbely.” Winners will be contacted on Monday, February 17, 2014. You can enter each contest only once. Good luck!
Walking hand in hand with your partner is a magical moment. Striding along next to your sweetie, you look down at your hand clasped tightly around… your purse? Don’t miss out on intimate moments this Valentine’s Day by being encumbered by your bag, be hands free and fashionable with SHOLDIT!
SHOLDIT is the incredible accessory that combines a chic look with functionality. This circular scarf is much more than its average scarf-cousins who only lend warmth and beauty to the wearer. SHOLDIT Clutch Wrap purse combines the beauty of a scarf, the security of a cross body and the convenience of a clutch all in one item! You can carry the essentials — like your phone, passport, lip gloss and sunglasses — without worrying about the size of the purse you will need for that shopping trip with the girls or for that romantic night out. Styled however you like as a scarf, cross body or clutch, you have all of your items at arms reach without the worry or inconvenience of a conventional purse.
Treat yourself, your bestie, your sister, your mom and all the women you love in your life to the hands free luxury of SHOLD IT by entering for a chance to win this must have accessory!
This Valentine’s Day CupidsPulse.com will be giving away one Sholdit Clutch Wrap!
To enter for a chance to win please email cupid@cupidspulse.comwith your full name, address, email, and daytime phone number NO LATER THAN 1 p.m. EST today. In the subject line, please write “Sholdit.” Winners will be contacted on Monday, February 17, 2014. You can enter each contest only once. Good luck!
This post is sponsored by ‘Til DIVORCE Do Us Part.
By Kristin Mattern
Marriage doesn’t always end up being the fairy tale we imagine it will be and sometimes we don’t make it through “until death do us part.” But, whether you make it or not, you can now walk on the distopic side of love this Valentine’s Day by getting together with the girls and heading on over to see ‘TIL DIVORCE DO US PART: THE MUSICAL.
Yes, a musical about divorce! This original comedy was inspired by the true story of a Broadway producers’ wife who is suddenly dumped by her husband after years of marriage. Rather than sink into sadness, she decides to celebrate this new chapter in her life. Along with her spunky friends, they get their revenge through song and dance, and laugh their way through the stages of divorce and self-discovery.
You don’t need to be a divorcee to enjoy cabaret and vaudevillian melodies like “A Whole Lot Cuter” and “Better Glad Than Mad!’ Everyone whose ever been in love will sympathize with the touching moments the play reveals and root for these women who have turned to the comical side of divorce to heal their wounds. It’s a musical comedy that romps through all of the emotions that relationships and breakups bring. Therefore, it’s good for your sensitive man as well!
Everyone deserves to see this hysterical show, and now they can! We are offering our visitors a 30% discount when you purchase your tickets today! Simply buy online at BroadWayOffers.com or call 212-947-8844 and use the discount code: TLLSP52.
Right now, CupidsPulse.com is giving away two vouchers (good for two tickets) to see TIL DIVORCE DO US PART: THE MUSICAL at the Daryl Roth Theatre in Union Square.
To enter for a chance to win please email cupid@cupidspulse.com with your full name, address, email, and daytime phone number NO LATER than 1 p.m. EST today. In the subject line, please write “Til Divorce Do Us Part: The Musical.” Winners will be contacted on Monday, February 17, 2014. You can enter each contest only once. Good luck!
Couple kissing while enjoying breakfast in bed. Photo: pressmaster / Bigstock.com
By Kristin Mattern
You and your sweetie are sick of the same old Valentine’s Day traditions, or maybe you’re both convinced it’s just a day made up by the card companies. Perhaps your pockets are just little lighter this year and you’re looking for ways to save money. Whatever your reason, this Valentine’s Day is a great time to have a cheap date to celebrate your love together.
Excited couple at a slot machine. Photo: Kzenon / Bigstock.com
By Kristin Mattern
Take a gamble on love this weekend and hit the strip with your man! Head out to a local casino and set the stakes high as you roll your way into your sweetie’s heart. You’ll be up all night with this weekend date idea.
Leeza Gibbons. Photo courtesy of Triple 7 Public Relations, LLC.
Interview by Lori Bizzoco. Editorial by Kristin Mattern.
Award-winning host Leeza Gibbons knows heartbreak and learned through experience that sometimes, to find a relationship and love, you have to start over. A successful businesswoman, she climbed from public radio to popular entertainment news broadcast shows like Entertainment Tonight, Hollywood Confidential, and America Now. But while her career powered forward, Gibbon’s romantic life didn’t progress so smoothly. After three celebrity divorces, she decided that it was time to focus on herself. Little did she realize that through this process, she would end up meeting her soul mate and now-husband, Steven Fenton. In our exclusive celebrity interview, the popular host gives some inspiring relationship advice for starting life anew.
Left to Right: The Venetian's TAO; The Palazzo's LAVO. Photo: dOMAIN Las Vegas
By Kristin Mattern
Ring in the New Year in grand fashion by planning a getaway with your significant other or even better, surprising him with a ticket to board the next jumbo jet to Vegas. Sin city is even more alive on New Year’s Eve and this year there are four amazing events taking place that will pretty much ensure you are welcoming 2014 in style. As we all know, what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas!
Interview by Lori Bizzoco. Editorial by Kristin Mattern.
Stylist to the stars Chaz Dean has been creating covetable celebrity looks for years. An authority on hair care, Dean began developing his own natural product line called WEN in 1996. After building an A-list clientele, he started Chaz Dean Studio in Hollywood where celebs can escape the typical salon products and pestering paparazzi for a calm, rejuvenating experience. With his WEN products as well as the date night tips he shares below, he brings Hollywood style to the masses in our exclusive celebrity interview.
