Bharath Reddy Punuru

A festival for LOVE ‘n ROMANCE, Valentine’s Day provides us with a splendid opportunity to spend some quality time with our truelove. Valentines Day is a day to express your love, and to celebrate the spirit of love.

Valentine’s Day is an extremely popular festival in United States & Canada. Here, the day is observed as a holiday. Originally held to honor St Valentine and express love to sweethearts, the scope of the day has come to be so widened that it has now become an occassion to express gratitude and love to not only sweethearts and spouses, but also to teachers, parents or any other close relation or acquaintance.

The modern celebrations of the day sees people complementing their dear ones with gifts that include popular items as cards, fresh flowers like rose, chocolates and candies. Dinner and dance parties are specially organized all over the country to celebrate the occasion. Many couples hold private celebrations in homes or restaurants and gift flowers, a box of candy, or some other present to one another.

Sending candies on Valentine’s Day has been a very popular tradition and it still is. Most valentine candy boxes are heart-shaped and tied with red ribbon. These contain tiny pastel-colored candies shaped like hearts with some lovely messages like “Be Mine”, “Thank You” or “Cool Dude” printed on them.