Hosting A Wholesome Galentine’s Day

Feb 4

Galentine’s Day is a Valentine’s celebration, but for the gals. Instead of celebrating romantic affections, Galentine’s Day celebrates friendships. The official date is on the 13th of February, a day before Valentine’s Day, but it can also be celebrated on any day in February. Though an unofficial holiday, this day gives you an opportunity to honour the friends you have by spending the day with them or showering them with gifts, all in an effort to show how much they mean to you.

Explore 4 different ideas you could incorporate for a wholesome Galentine’s Day celebration:

1. Create an Inviting and Relaxing Atmosphere:

Inviting your closest friends will create a wholesome setting, where you could all feel comfortable, enjoy each other’s company and make a lot of new memories along the way. You would want to create a comfortable setting by hosting your Galentine’s Day celebration at home, a familiar cafe or an outdoor area. Filling the area with Valentine’s themed decor to celebrate your friends and make them feel special. When everyone feels most comfortable that is when the festivities of the day can begin.

2. The Highlight: Food

No event could ever be complete without food. Curate a delicious and cute-looking menu that includes appetisers, a main dish and dessert - lots of dessert. Presenting the food on beautiful red, white and pink dishes all enhance the theme of the celebration. Include each of your friends’ favourite foods, it will show your thoughtfulness, how you pay attention to what they like and will show your appreciation for them. Creating some of the food in little heart-shapes will remind your friends what the celebration is about, your love for them. Food is not only the highlight because of how delicious it is, but also because it fosters conversation and allows you to laugh and add to your growing vault of memories.

3. Incorporate Fun Activities

Activities give you an opportunity to learn new things about your friends. Whether this be artistic activities like painting which will give you an idea of who the artist of the group is and who really is terrible at drawing, or whether like 30 seconds they test who is able to work really well under time pressure or games that delve into knowing each other better by asking good questions that help you know your friend and love them better. These ideas are sure to make your celebration wholesome and memorable.

4. Do a Gift-Exchange

Prior to the Galentine’s Day celebration, each friend could bring a gift for a friend. This could be like a secret-Santa thing, but for Galentine’s. They can be small, inexpensive gifts. The gifts would show how much or how little attention you pay to the interests of your friends and it could create opportunity for little inside jokes over what gift you brought your friend. This will bond your friend group and create a sense of an ever-deepening friendship.

Galentine’s Day provides an excuse to spend the day with your closest friends and any day that celebrates the community of people you have is a good day. Remember to capture the beautiful moments from your Galentine’s Day celebration.