Our Monthly Tip: Bring Love Into Your Celebration of Life With a Valentine-Inspired Theme

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For many people, February is closely associated with Valentine’s Day, a holiday devoted to love. Love takes many forms, changing and adapting over the course of our lives – and beyond life itself. You can incorporate Valentine’s Day themes into a celebration of life by honoring the different ways you loved your person.

The following ideas can include a heartfelt, authentic Valentine’s Day theme while focusing on your loved one.

How-to Suggestions: Setting the Valentine’s Day Theme

This buffet table incorporates sweet treats, Valentine’s colors, and lovely flowers while remaining tasteful and thematic.
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Try setting up a beautiful buffet table overflowing with flower arrangements and petals. Pink and red hues fit the Valentine’s theme particularly well; roses and carnations are excellent choices. Sweets, including handmade chocolates or chocolate-covered strawberries, help incorporate the holiday in a meaningful way. Soft pink candlesticks can top everything off in a tasteful display.

Cutting out small heart-shaped valentines from paper can help guests and family members honor a loved one with written treasures.
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Create heart-shaped paper cutouts using colored construction paper to serve as handmade valentines. Pass them out to your guests so they can each write something about the one being honored: poems, favorite memories, words remembered, or what they loved the most about them. You can collect them in a basket for family members to cherish later or even read them aloud as part of the celebration.

This letter board features a loving reminder fitting for the holiday, and arranged near flowers it can serve as decor as well.
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A simple pushpin or letter board can serve as a lovely Valentine’s motif. Incorporate a Valentine’s tone with a love quote, reminder, or memory. This expression of love or celebration can help inspire guests and set up the tone of the occasion nicely. Displaying it near flower arrangements or petals can liven it up further. 

Conclusion

A celebration of life is also a celebration of love and memories. A tasteful Valentine’s Day theme marks a wonderful way to remember and honor your loved one with friends and family. A few simple decorations and activities that tie in a love theme for your celebration of life can make your event meaningful and sentimental. Celebrating the love shared is a heartfelt way to keep the legacy and memory alive.