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The perfect Valentine’s Day is spent with friends and family, sharing a delicious home-cooked meal and some Valentine’s Day-inspired co*cktails and desserts. Here are some ideas for creating a charming Valentine’s Day or Galentine’s Day party that you can host for your girlfriends!
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Happy Galentine’s Day Ideas!
If you’re hosting a happy Galentine’s Day for your girlfriends, there’s a lot of activities and ideas you can do! Have Valentine’s Day craft night or a Valentine’s Day movie night or maybe a wine and cheese party!
No matter what you choose to do, you can cook your favorite food (or order take out!), set up a charming Valentine’s Day-inspired bar with desserts and co*cktails, and just relax! It’s a great excuse to spend time and appreciate the close friendships you have.
Appetizers for Valentine’s Day Party
Keep the food easy and make some charming appetizers to serve.
A Cheese Platter is always a good idea! They are fun to make and very filling for guests.
Marinated Olives
Ham and Cheese Sliders
Mini Lobster Rolls
Lavender Marcona Olives
Greek Mezze Platter
Baked Salmon Skewers
Yogurt Tahini Dip
Entertaining Pro Tip – Use a tiny heart-shaped cookie cutter to cut our shapes in the fruit and cheese! It’s an easy way to add a little charm and love to the cheese platter.
Valentine’s Day co*cktails
You can’t host a Galentine’s day party without co*cktails! Here are our favorite, festive drinks to serve:
Pink co*cktail Recipes
Boozy Bourbon Milkshakes
Strawberry Snow Cones
Pink Whiskey Lemonade
Frozen Paloma
The Best Cosmo Recipe
Bee’s Knees co*cktail Recipe
You can also make this Floral Rosé Spritzer. It’s refreshing and the color is perfect for Valentine’s Day. Recipe in the recipe card below!
Also check out more great co*cktail recipes our favoritebrunch recipes, the best-mixeddrinks,tequila co*cktails, gin co*cktails, vodka co*cktails, andcheap drinksto make at home!
Tips for Making Valentine’s Day co*cktails
If it’s a shaken co*cktail, make it ahead of time in the co*cktail shaker. Wait to add ice, then right before serving, add the ice and shake, shake, shake! Then strain! This way you can prep all of the ingredients and measurements ahead of time.
Add a charming detail likepink ice cubes! They’re naturally colored with hibiscus flour and easy to make.
If you’re serving wine, check out ourwine serving tipsand then show off your skills!
Use edible flowers to garnish your Valentine’s Day co*cktail. You can evenmake your own edible flower garden! If not, find edible flowers in the fresh herb section at Whole Foods.
For something even more unique, make some Chambord Jello Shots!
Valentine’s Day Desserts
If you’re looking for an easy dessert that guests can assemble themselves, we love the idea of an ice cream sandwich platter. Choose 3 varieties of ice cream paired with a few options for cookies and let your friends make their own!
Make sure you have an ice cream scooper and a lot of napkins on hand!
Here are more Valentine’s Day dessert recipes you can make:
Lemon and Thyme Shortbread Cookies
Simple Peanut Butter Cookies
Italian Rainbow Cookies
Mini Heart Shaped Sugar Cookies
Chocolate Chip Cookie Pie
Decadent Chocolate and Easy Soufflés Recipe
The Best Cookie Recipes
Thumbprint Cookies
Valentine’s Day Crafts
Sharing a few more of our favorite Valentine’s Day crafts! These are all fun projects and gifts you can make at your party! Set up a craft station and get crafting!
DIY Mini Cake Stands– These are so charming and a fun Valentine’s Day Craft and Gift!
DIY Essential Oil Candlesare a great Valentine’s Day craft idea!
Lavender Lip Balm DIY! With a printable Valentine’s Day label! They’re adorable and great for kids to make too.
I’m Donuts Over You printables!
Valentine’s Day Embroidery Wine Bags
Here are 14 more Valentine’s Day craft ideas!
Valentine’s Day Movies
If you invite friends over for Valentine’s Day Movie night, here are some great options for movies!
The Notebook
10 Things I Hate About You
When Harry Met Sally
Valentine’s Day
Say Anything
You’ve Got Mail
My Best Friends Wedding
Love Actually
Book Club
Valentine’s Day Decorations
Decorate your party with some pretty flowers and paper streamers. Keep it simple and charming but festive to celebrate the holiday! Here are some ideas:
Lot’s of Flowers
Party Streamers
Gold Plates and Flatware
Charming Paper Napkins
We hope you have a happy Galentine’s Day! Please share your photos with us @sugarandcharm on social!
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Floral Rosé Spritzer
A light and refreshing Floral Rosé Spritzer co*cktail that is perfect for Valentine's Day!
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Course: co*cktail
Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 0 minutes minutes
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Total Time: 5 minutes minutes
Servings: 8 people
Calories: 180kcal
Author: Eden
Ingredients
- 24 ounces rosé
- 4 ounces rum
- 4 ounces grapefruit juice
- 4 ounces St. Germain
- 2 ounces simple syrup
- ice
Instructions
In a large pitcher add all of the ingredients and stir.
Fill the pitcher with ice.
Add edible flowers and berries.
Nutrition
Calories: 180kcal | Carbohydrates: 15g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 1g | Sodium: 9mg | Potassium: 112mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 13g | Vitamin A: 1IU | Vitamin C: 4mg | Calcium: 9mg | Iron: 1mg
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