Valentine Week List 2024: Rose Day to Kiss Day, here is the complete valentine's week calendar | The Times of India (2024)

"Given their similarities, it has been suggested that the holiday has origins in the Roman festival of Lupercalia, held in mid-February. The festival, which celebrated the coming of spring, included fertility rites and the pairing off of women with men by lottery. At the end of the 5th century, Pope Gelasius I forbade the celebration of Lupercalia and is sometimes attributed with replacing it with St. Valentine’s Day, but the true origin of the holiday is vague at best," says Britannica.

Britannica suggests the name might have been taken from a priest who was martyred about 270 CE by the emperor Claudius II Gothicus. According to legend, the priest signed a letter “from your Valentine” to his jailer’s daughter, whom he had befriended and, by some accounts, healed from blindness.

Valentine's week comprises Rose Day, Propose Day, Chocolate Day, Teddy Day, Promise Day, Hug Day, Kiss Day, and Valentine's Day. It is the month of love, so cherish each and every day of the week. Create memories so that when you look back to this day, it will make you smile even in gloomy days.

If roses were not special weeds would not envy them.-Matshona Dhliwayo

The first day of the week is Rose Day on which red roses are exchanged to express love. Red roses are often associated with love and beauty. So, plan to gift a beautiful red rose bouquet to your partner this Rose Day.

On this day, yellow roses are also exchanged. Yellow roses signify eternal friendship.

So, the rose is yours, so is the day!

Commitment is an act, not a word-Jean-Paul Sartre

It is needless to say what this day entails. Propose Day is when you express your love and emotions before the person you love. If you have been waiting to tell someone about how you feel about them, this is the right day. Do not let it go without sending out the long-pending proposal. Say it today!

Anything is good if it's made of chocolate-Jo Brand

This can be said as the most likeable day of the entire Valentine week. Who doesn't love chocolate? Gifting your partner a box of the best chocolates can set everything right. Nothing can go wrong over a box of chocolates.

A friend is a gift you give yourself-Robert Louis Stevenson

A big fat adorable teddy is something nobody can "not love". A teddy can work wonders on relations and friends which may have gone bitter. Nothing changes a mood better than a lovely and thoughtful gift. Teddies symbolise childishness, and the feeling of being loved.

Beauty is the promise of happiness-Edmund Burke

No, promises are not always meant to be broken! On promise day, you commit to your partner to be with them thick and thin; or may be thin and thin, if situation comes. An oath of love and a commitment of lifetime is what makes the promise day the most beautiful day of valentine week.

I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words- Ann Hood

Do you know a hug can wipe out the distress and sorrow of a person in a moment? Such is the magic of a loving hug. Do not forget to hug out the bitterness or misunderstanding in a relationship. Hug day symbolises our maturity in dealing with adversities and how evolved is our sensibility in coping with the good and bad of a partner.

“The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?”-Percy Bysshe Shelley

Seal your love with the kiss! What's more romantic than showing your love with a kiss. On Kiss Day do not hesitate to express your love in the most genuine way.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own-H. Jackson

The week ends with the day of love, the Valentine's Day. Make plans, go out, spend time, talk a lot, laught lot more and commit to be for each other forever.

Happy Valentine's Week to all.