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I don't get all the malice towards Valentine's day. I like to compare it to Christmas or Easter; a Christian should show their faith throughout the year, but will take specific days to celebrate it or celebrate specific aspects of it. Relationships and Valentine's day or anniversaries work the same way, I reckon.
I tend to leave the expensive gifts and to-do's for Christmas or birthdays, however. For one girl, I once took a wicker basket and filled it with everything I could think of that represented us; there was a cd I made with music on it we enjoyed together, various ticket stubs to sporting events and shows we'd seen together, a pair of Tim Horton's cups (we met at a Tim's) and various other cheesy/romantic items. I topped it all of with a letter that expressed to the best of my ability what she meant to me. I made it a point to spend as little money on that as possible and it was probably the most well-received valentine's day gift I've ever given.
More recently, I went a more traditional route; I gave the last ex a very elegant necklace for Valentine's day; this was selected mostly because we hadn't been together for very long at that point and I didn't want to overdo it; that and I had just bought a car at the time, so didn't have a lot of money to spend (I think it cost me $40). Even here there was a method to my madness, though; I picked it out as something Audrey Hepburn would wear, knowing that she was one of this girl's idols.
Y'all don't even want to know what I had planned for this February. It's too cheesy for words.
On the specific plan in question here... well, it works. You're sort of asking the wrong people though. It doesn't matter what we think of it; the only important opinion is hers.
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I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept
I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept
I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said
- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame
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