The Valentine’s gift is crucial. Get it right and you’re looking at three solid days of... enjoyment. Get it wrong and... cold showers. Here are the best last-minute gifts for your valentine. Don’t screw this up.
First up, send your beloved to a dominatrix. No, not necessarily like that. This dominatrix runs an adult shop where the object of your affection can spend two hours going over books of swatches and having 30-plus measurements taken to produce a custom-made corset. Come to think of it, maybe you should go.
Picking out a handbag as a gift is normally a graduate-level move, fraught with peril. Here to ease the degree of difficulty: Union Market’s new wineshop, which is hawking these clutch purses designed specifically to hold a bottle of wine. They’ll even throw in a gratis bottle.
Option 1: grab a vintage piece here (art deco–era earrings, a gold ring from the 1880s) and make up a story to go along with it (something involving the Titanic, maybe). Option 2: bring them a photo of a vintage design, and they’ll make a CAD drawing of it to do an exact replica.
Champagne: check. Oysters and lobster: check. But baking a cake to finish off your home-based V-Day extravaganza: a little labor-intensive. Enter these six-inch, four-layer red velvet cakes with cream cheese frosting and hearts made of icing. You’ll find a use for those.
Oh, right. Flowers. You forgot. Fortunately, H.Bloom will bring them to your office on Thursday, wrapped and ready so you can have them tucked under your arm when you meet your beloved. While you’re at it, sign up for the same service for two other special occasions this year. No, not the Fourth of July.
