The Game of Love–Couples Valentine’s Party Recipes

My friend, Heidi, is a former caterer and a kindred crazy spirit, so when she asked if I wanted to help her host a Valentines party for some of our friends. Knowing how I love a good Valentine’s date night, I couldn’t refuse.

There were a lot of different directions we could have taken this night, but Heidi said she wanted it to be for couples and to be more on the casual side (rather than formal and super-romantic). She wanted to play games and serve yummy food and for everyone to have a good time. When she talked about playing the “Newlywed Game” (Or rather the “not-so-newlywed game” for most of us), I knew what direction I wanted to go.

We decorated with a glitzy game show feel, using lots of tinsel and lights, and called the event The Game of Love. In addition to our Newlywed Game, we did Valentine’s Minute-to-Win-it games, so it was a perfect theme.

But of course, the first thing on everyone’s mind when they came was food, so we’ll start there, too.

While we were finishing up food preparations, we sent our guests to the “Love Potion Station” (a.k.a. Italian Soda Station). Heidi had several appropriate flavors of syrup, including strawberry and passion fruit and everyone got to mix their own. I designed the Directions to echo the Game Show theme, and provided stripey straws, because they make everything cuter!

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