Date Night – Indoor Picnic Idea
Date Night – Indoor Picnic Idea! Forget about booking a sitter and buying overpriced restaurant meals on Valentine’s Day! Celebrate the day with a beautiful, inviting Valentine’s Day Date In – with this cozy indoor picnic idea! I’ll show you how to set it up plus I’m also sharing a yummy dinner menu and I’ve put together a list of 12 romantic movie ideas to watch right from your cozy indoor picnic blanket! I’ve got your Valentine’s Day celebration covered! Plus see other 31 creative bloggers Valentine’s Entertaining ideas as part of the Styled and Set blog tour!
Thank you Lory at Designthusiasm for organizing this inspirational Styled and Set Holiday Entertaining Blog Tour with 31 bloggers!
If you’re visiting from Citrine Living – welcome! I’m so glad you’re here!
Back in the day, before kiddos, hubby and I used to celebrate Valentine’s Day with a night out at an expensive restaurant.
But after we had kids it got to be so expensive to pay a sitter and buy overpriced Valentine’s Day meals and drinks!
While it’s still nice to go out once and a while, now we really love to spend time relaxing in our own home and making an indoor picnic by the fire, to cuddle up to after a great home made dinner. See the dinner menu below.
It’s a great chance to just catch up with each other, talk about our dreams, our plans and spend some time enjoying and appreciating each other’s company by a cozy fire.
We love to watch movies too – so check out the list of 12 romantic movies I put together to give you some ideas of what you can watch on Valentine’s Day date night!
Date Night – Indoor Picnic Idea
For our indoor picnic I laid down a cozy fringed pink blanket by our fireplace to sit on – it’s super soft!
Next I tossed a few throw pillows on top of the blanket…. to lean on.
Check out my DIY glam sequin ‘LOVE’ pillows – perfect for Valentine’s Day and so easy to make!
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Add a tray of pink and red themed snacks and drinks by your picnic zone including:
– fruit (red fruit like strawberries, raspberries and red grapes are perfect for Valentine’s Day)
– chocolate candy (this is my favorite chocolate!)
– Valentine chocolate bark recipe
– Pink champagne or pink perrier water!
– A scented candle is also a nice touch. These Voluspa candles are a favorite of mine!
Here’s a yummy Valentine’s Day dinner menu:
Three Cheese Chicken Lasagna – this is so delicious!
Mixed Green Salad
… and here are 12 Romantic Movie Ideas!:
I hope you’ll try this Valentine’s Day Date Night Picnic Idea with your sweetie!
This is also a fun idea to do with:
– your girlfriends for a girls night in: just add more chocolate 😉
– your kiddos: make non-alcoholic drinks and watch movies your kids will love!
What a fun way to say ‘Happy Valentine’s Day!’ to your Valentine!
So how will you be spending Valentine’s Day?
Now hop on over to blog to Ann at On Sutton Place see her amazing Valentine Entertaining idea and check out all of these creative blogger’s holiday ideas too!
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Tuesday’s posts:
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Wednesday’s posts:
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Thursday’s posts:
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Friday’s posts:
ZDesign at Home | Finding Home Farms | Becky Cunningham Home
Eleven Gables | The Wood Grain Cottage
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!
You may also like these Valentines ideas:
DIY Chocolatey Favor Boxes Gifts
Valentine Chocolate Bark Jar Gift Idea
What a darling idea to have an indoor picnic for date night. Hugs and blessings, Cindy
these ideas are fabulous and you’ve gotten me all excited for Valentine’s Day!
Love your valentine table! The pillows are so adorable, can you post the instructions? thanks
Thank you Liz!! You can see how I made them here:https://www.settingforfour.com/2014/02/cozy-living-room-vignette-decor.html 🙂 xo Heather
Such a pretty setting Heather! I enjoyed sharing the day with you…Happy Valentine’s Day!
What a cute idea! Love it! xo
Heather, what a wonderfully romantic and creative idea! It looks both cozy and beautiful and I so agree about spending a romantic night at home! And my favorite line for a night with the girls – just add more chocolate! Perfect… lol!!
What a fun, romantic idea! Thanks for all the great tips!!
Such a sweet idea… thanks!
What a great idea! Love the dinner menu & the movie list has many of my favorites on it!
I love this idea so much, Heather! So fun to have an excuse to eat by the fire! I will be using this idea for sure!
Oh great Tamara! I’m glad you like my fun and cozy date night idea!! Happy Valentine’s Day! xo Heather
Hmm. I believe you have a glitch somewhere. I clicked on the confetti bowl blog. From there, I went to look at the Reindeer Moss balls, then I TRIED to go to the “How to Decorate a Mantel for Spring” post, but it kept bringing me back to this post. Just wanted to let you know.
Thanks for letting me know Marilyn! I’ve asked my webmaster to look into it and fix it! xo Heather
What a sweet set up Shannon! And those pillows are adorable!
HEATHER!!!!! I know your name lol, it’s been a long week.
LOL!! No worries! I’ve had weeks like that too! xo Heather
Thanks so much Taryn!! xo Heather
Thank you so much for sharing your fantastic idea for real-life romance! Mixing Family life + Married Love is complex, sometimes frustrating….and SO worth it!
You’re welcome and you are so right! I’m glad you enjoy my post – thanks for visiting!
I had saved your Chicken Lasagna recipe when you originally shared it and made it earlier this week. It was so delicious; my family loved it.
Oh wonderful Rebecca! I’m so glad your family loved this chicken lasagna recipe! It’s definitely one of my go-to recipes! 🙂 xo Heather
STUNNING! My husband and I have done indoor picnic dates before but never this fancy and decorative. Love, love and did I mention LOVE THIS!
Heather -super cute idea so many ways to make it your own. This is the first time I have been to your blog. I’m on the blog hop and love all the valentine fun!!!! Please enter me into the drawing. Thanks Denise
Welcome to my blog Denise – I’m so glad you found me!! Have a wonderful week!! xo Heather
I love your picnic idea, so sat night I’m preparing a special valentine’s dinner for my boys. I’m making sweet cupcakes and having a fire. I’m looking forward to it.
Awwww!!! What an amazing idea June!! You are such an amazing mom to make a special dinner for your boys!! Cupcakes by the fire sounds amazing…I’m on my way over!! 😉 xo Heather
Made the love pillow, I used larger sequences and it looks amazing!
thanks you so much for the inspiration! Now I must make another one…
Yay!! I’m so glad you love this DIY pillow idea – I absolutely love mine too! Have a great day Liz!