Five Fun Ways to Celebrate Galentine’s Day With Your Girl Squad
Girls rule, boys drool--it's time to fall in love with some unconventional ideas on how to celebrate Galentine's Day with your closest gal pals.
Time to bring out the classic cynical outlook on Valentine’s Day: it’s a made-up holiday about love that people use in order to impress their partner one day during the year rather than appreciate the little things about relationships all the time.
Ok, off the soapbox now. But seriously, there is so much pressure surrounding one day of romance when it really should be celebrated all year round. One relationship we all keep the flame alive for though, is the one with our closest group of girlfriends.
When times get tough, they’ve got your back. When a boy breaks your heart, they’re right there ready to pick up the pieces. They keep your darkest secrets safe and know how to spill the hottest tea you’ve ever heard. (For those of you who don’t keep up with slang from the youth, that pretty much means gossip.)
So throw out your hyped-up, expensive plans to get loved up this February 14 and take Leslie Knope’s advice to celebrate uteruses before duderuses with these five unconventional Galentine’s Day shindigs!
- Wine tasting party
It’s just like a potluck…with wine! There’s no need to go to Napa when you and your ladies can head right over to the closest liquor or wine store to choose from all of the vino you could ever imagine. Reds, whites, sparkling, rose, the list goes on and on of all the possibilities and if everyone picks a bottle up, the group can imagine the luscious vineyards throughout every sip. Steep pours for all!
- Rom-com movie marathon
True life: tearing up at the end of sappy rom-coms is definitely every girl’s guilty pleasure. How could you not hold back the waterworks when Hugh Grant admits his love for Julia Roberts in Notting Hill or John Cusack holds that boombox up out of love at the end of Say Anything? Grab a drink and some tissues, and indulge in the hopeless romantic side surrounded by a room full of your closest friends. Therapy can come as cheap as a vintage movie rental and a tub of popcorn.
- The Great V-Day Bakeoff
On Valentine’s Day, calories are overrated. No one cares how many sweets you indulge on as long as you love yourself in the end. Take the baking to the next level by creating a competition between two teams and endless desserts. While one team may take home the pride of creating the best cake or gooiest cookie, everyone wins by feasting on all the leftover yummies for the rest of the night.
- Brunch in bed…kinda
Remember the good ol’ days when you would plan the ultimate slumber party with all your friends, staying up all night talking and doing makeovers? Be a real grown-up and make those trendy yet again, but get a good night’s sleep before brunching it up in the comfort of your own pajamas. That’s right—get the girls together, sweatpants and all, to feast upon pancakes, mimosas, cinnamon rolls and more after a crazy night in. It’ll make the late night fiesta worth all the while.
- Anti-romance drinking games
Calling all haters of Valentine’s Day! Want to completely bash all over the unnecessary holiday by drowning your sorrows in a bottle or two? Make a joke out of it by reliving those college glory days and fixing the rules of those classic drinking games to diss everything you once knew to be true on the lovey-dovey day. Example: take a shot every time someone complains about being single. Problem solved!
Happy Galentine’s Day, ladies!
