Date Night

January 15, 2013 43 Comments

Valentine’s Day is only a month away! It seems like we just wrapped up Christmas but we’re already on to the next holiday! I do enjoy Valentine’s Day though… Sharing a little something with those I love is always a highlight.

This year I’m already ready with one of the hubs’ gifts! A custom date night love coupon book from Datevitation. {Don’t worry, he doesn’t read the blog unless I ask him to, so this won’t be a spoiler!}

Datevitation is such a fun idea! They are the first online platform where you can create a custom love coupon book for your significant other or even for a friend! There are over 200 unique date ideas to choose from, everything from a little something naughty for the husband to a little something fun for a girls’ night out idea.

Each coupon book comes packaged in a fun ready to gift box. There are over 60 book cover options to choose from with various holiday and other special occasion options. You can see I chose a Valentine’s Day cover with wedding rings for my hubs in the photo above.

Inside each cover is a page that you can customize with a note completely written by you, a simple To: From: message, or they even offer some really cute poems and prompts to get you started. I chose the To: From: option so I have space to hand write a love note myself.

With over 200 fun dates to choose from it took me awhile to narrow it down to just five… But I think I chose a few that the hubs will especially love… Things like going out for a steak at a nice steakhouse. How convenient that they even provide a space to write down the date the coupon was used, right!?!

Or a movie of his choice at the theater. Just saying, I seriously doubt he chooses a chick flick… But that’s completely ok!

I was really impressed with the layout of the Datevitation website. They set it up so you customize each feature of the book as you go along. Then they provide you a complete preview before placing your order. I was also impressed with the shipping! My love coupon book arrived in my mailbox in just a few short days! Perfect!

Today one lucky Truly Lovely reader has the chance to win their very own customized Datevitation coupon book!!! Enter to win using the Rafflecopter form below. The winner will be drawn and announced on Wednesday, January 23rd. This giveaway is only open to U.S. residents or those that can have their book shipped to a U.S. address.

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If you’re looking for even more fun date ideas be sure to check out the Datevitation blog where creators, Alex and Olga Karpman a husband-wife team, offer video ideas for dates and other romantic gestures.

Now each coupon book normally starts at just $20 for five custom dates but for a limited time Truly Lovely readers can get their very own coupon book for only $10!!!

Use the code trulylovely for $10 off your purchase through January!!!

Thanks for entering lovelies and good luck!!!!

Disclosure: I received a free Datevitation coupon book in exchange for my review of their product. As always all opinions shared here are 100% my own!

A uh.. Unique Date Idea

February 1, 2012 8 Comments

I may have mentioned before but for those new to Truly Lovely, the hubs and I attended the same university.

Go AGGIES! {NMSU, specifically.}

In college we played a lot of a game that we’ll just call um… water pong. haha.

Also known as beer pong to some… but any who….

It was kind of our thing. We even had a HUGE piece of plywood that we spray painted black, then invited all of our friends to sign using those paint marker things.

It served as our pong playing table top.

It was awesome!

While doing our Christmas shopping this year we discovered that Wal-Mart carries a Sports Pong set.

Yep, you can now buy your plastic cups and ping pong balls in a nicely boxed set for less than $10!

Who knew?!

I thought it would be fun to get a set for the hubs’ birthday and surprise him with a college flashback style date night!

It’s been windy here lately and everyone knows you can’t play water pong in the wind!

So I set up a pong court, as it were, inside! Complete with plastic drop cloths to save my carpet if any water were to spill… which can happen.

The note in the middle reads, “Consider this a challenge! See you tonight!”

The sports pong set comes with 12 games, which makes for lots of fun, friendly hubs and wife competition. ;) Don’t worry, if you can’t find a Sports Pong set, a package of those good ol’ Red Solo cups (Toby Keith, anyone?!) and a set of ping pong balls is EXACTLY the same thing.

The point of the game, in case you’re unversed in the art of water pong, is to stand at one end of the table, and take turns tossing your ping pong balls into the other person’s (half water filled) cups, essentially knocking out all of their cups before they get yours!

SO if you’re looking for a fun date night idea this Valentine’s Day…

Or any night really…

Maybe a friendly game of water pong would be just the thing.

In this date night version winner gets a back rub.

Or if water pong isn’t your thing, the point is to think of something your love used to really enjoy and bring it back for date night!

Have fun lovelies!