Happy Galentine's Day: Our girlfriends are the only people who understand us completely, our mood swings, our highs and lows, what we need on bad days, how we need to celebrate the good days, and more. With Valentine's Week being celebrated in full swing, it only makes sense to dedicate a day to our best friends and celebrate the love we share with them. We are talking about Galentine's Day. It is one of the most magical days of the year when we celebrate the platonic love and sisterhood between women (and friends of all genders, really) in our lives. Scroll through to learn all about Galentine's Day and how you should celebrate it with your favourite ladies.
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When is Galentine's Day?
Galentine's Day falls annually a day before Valentine's Day. It is on February 13. It is a friendship version of Valentine's Day and is celebrated with the seventh day of Valentine's Week - Kiss Day.
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How to celebrate Galentine's Day with your girlfriends?
You can celebrate Galentine's Day the way you please with your best friends. While Valentine's Day plans are always extravagant with fancy dinner reservations, grand surprises or love confessions, Galentine's Day is about doing things the way your best friend and you like. so yeah, it can range from the fanciest dinner outing at a high-end restaurant to you just chilling with them at home in your PJs while eating ice cream and binge-watching your favourite shows. You can also go out for brunch, have your girls over for a chill wine and cheese night, exchange gifts, throw a Girls Only rager, book a spa day, go for a hobby class and more. Here are some of the ideas that would make it extra special.
Relax with Netflix and Wine
Netflix and Wine with your best friends is how you should spend Galentine's Day if you are not such big fans of crowded places. Get out your best jammies, face masks, manicure and pedicure essentials, takeout from your favourite restaurant, and wine you all prefer, and you are sorted for the day. Just put on a show or a movie and watch it while indulging in some self-care activities.
Take out your friends for a date night dressed in stunning clothes and full glam on Galentine's Day. You can catch up with them about everything happening in your lives and reminisce about the good memories you all share. All you need is to choose a dinner place that you all enjoy or that holds a special meaning in your lives.
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Host a party with a theme
Nothing beats a themed party on Galentine's Day. To make it a success, start by finalising a theme you and your girlfriends would definitely enjoy. It can be 90s Bollywood, Barbie, favourite Marvel characters, iconic BTS memes, and more. Dress up according to the theme and enjoy the day doing activities you all enjoy, like decorating the place according to the theme, making themed snacks and drinks, and more. You can also arrange a personalised goodie bag and gift them to each other.
A day full of your favourite food and drinks
If you and your girls love food, this idea would be right up your alley. Spend the day cooking dishes, desserts and co*cktails you all enjoy, and enjoy it all during lunch or dinner. You can even go on a picnic with the prepared items and add books, blankets and music to the mix.
Eat heart-shaped pizza while watching a classic
If you want to get super extra and cheesy on Galentine's Day with your best friends, heart-shaped pizzas and movies about love and friendship are the way to spend it. Make a pizza in a heart shape and decorate it with your favourite toppings. Once done, devour it with your girlfriends while watching classic movies and drinking wine. To make the vibes even cosier, watch it from a movie projector!
Is Galentine's Day only for girls and singles?
Galentine's Day is definitely NOT for just the singles and girls. While the name has gal in it, anyone and everyone can celebrate Galentine's Day. Whether you're single, coupled-up, stuck in a talking stage, or languishing away in a confusing set-up, Galentine's Day is a chance to celebrate meaningful relationships. It is a celebration of friendship and the people who stick by your side as romantic relationships come and go. That means you can celebrate with all your friends, no matter their genders, orientations, etc.
Falling each year on February 13th—yes, the day before Valentine's Day—Galentine's Day is basically the friendship version of V-Day. It's an unofficially-official holiday that's all about celebrating platonic love and sisterhood between the women (and friends of all genders, really) in your life.
Galentine's Day 2024: Everything you need to know about the date, history, significance & why we celebrate female friendships on this day. Forget the roses and chocolates, February 13th belongs to the ladies!
Galentine's Day is a global holiday that celebrates women's friendship. Galentine's Day is typically marked as February 13, but can be observed any day. Galentine's Day events are typically all-female occasions of mutual "empowerment...a reminder for women to support and uplift one another."
Galentine's Day is definitely NOT for just the singles and girls. While the name has gal in it, anyone and everyone can celebrate Galentine's Day. Whether you're single, coupled-up, stuck in a talking stage, or languishing away in a confusing set-up, Galentine's Day is a chance to celebrate meaningful relationships.
There are no strict rules when it comes to Galentine's Day festivities. Some choose to go the original path that is based on the television show. This consists of eating breakfast, sharing Valentine's Day goodies, exchanging gifts and an overall celebration of female friendship.
That means you can celebrate with any and all friends, no matter their genders, orientations, etc. Like the holiday it precedes, Galentine's day is dedicated to showing the most important people in your life how much you care about them.
Observed on February 13, the day before Valentine's Day, Galentine's Day celebrates platonic friendships, usually among women. It originated on the show Parks and Recreation.
To the incredible women who make life brighter, Happy Galentine's Day! Galentine's Day, Because girls just wanna have fun and celebrate with each other! Cheers to the strong, beautiful, and empowering women in my life. Happy Galentine's Day!
You'll always be my Galentine.There's nothing better than best friends.Except best friends with chocolate and wine.Making memories with you is my favorite thing to do.
There's obviously no strict dress code for Galentine's Day— it's all about however dressed up or casual your friends want it to be. So whether you're looking for the best pair of sweatpants, or a fun sparkly-skirt outfit, we have some ideas for you.
Fun Fact: Galentine's Day was created by Leslie Knope, the Parks and Recreation fictional main character. She invented the holiday as a tribute to her close girlfriends.
a cold dish made of chicken or other meat with the bones removed, that is filled with a mixture of other foods, rolled or pressed into shape, and cooked in stock (= a liquid used to add flavour to food): For the starter I had chicken and fig galantine with a spiced mango salsa.
It's one of those things that has just embedded itself in popular culture, and it actually goes back to the Feb. 11, 2010, episode of "Parks and Rec" where Leslie Nope, Amy Poehler's character, is introducing Galentine's Day. It's this wonderful day where, you know, women celebrate women. They go out to brunch.
Palentine's Day is a global holiday celebrating friendships and every other form of platonic love. It is celebrated annually on February 13, but can be observed on February 14 as well, and complements Valentine's Day, which celebrates romantic love.
The TV show Parks and Recreation came up with Galentine's Day – a day dedicated to single women which is celebrated on February 13th. And Malentine's Day – you guessed it, is a day dedicated to single men and is celebrated on the 12th.
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