What is the most romantic gesture you have done for someone?

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Just that really, love to hear from men and women and if it was received well!

For one ex, I left little messages ("i
Love you",etc.) in between pages of books, CDs, pockets,etc.

For another, I sent an envelope filled with small, hand-made tissue-paper hearts.

For another, I sneaked out, picked a lot of roses, put them in his coat pockets before I left for work.

I LOVE the pies!

I bought my dh a massive piece of artwork made up of a framed compilation of photos of places that meant something to us or him. There is a fabulous photographer near us who has thousands of photos he has taken of places near us and I met up with him chatted through dh's hobbies, where we walked locally, hotels we had stayed in locally etc and picked ones that matched or had meaning to us. It's awesome even if I say so myself! We weren't even married st the time and was quite early in the relationship. I set the bar quite high and haven't been able to do anything as good since!

Oddly enough, I've never done anything g romantic for dh. He's not that sort of person.

Hmmmm.

I once dated a lovely chap in the military. I missed him loads when he went on tour and sent lots of care parcels (he used to write to me 3 times a day too bless him) one of his blueys was always filthy so I reciprocated and sent him a porno - it was v soft porn as I recall, nothing too gynaecological. I annotated it- old romantic that I am - just things like "we should try this out" or "do you remember the hotel room in wales?" you know the kind of thing... Anyway my huge mistake was not telling him I'd done this as he passed the magazine straight to "his lads" without opening it lesson learnt. I kurb my romantic impulses these days - I also cook pies!

Yes watch out for those pies

I wrote "I luv u" with minstrels and then put it in to a picture frame. He was very moved and said that it was the nicest thing that anyone had ever done for him.

Several years later, I had the pleasure of smashing it, upon discovering his panchant for escorts . I still think it was one of my more 'arty' moments though.

At uni for my now dh.
Filled my room with flowers and candles and little messages of why I loved him.
My housemate let him in the flat and promptly went to her boyfriends.
He loved it

when I was dating dh he was having a rough time with work so I had a picture of him (driving a speed boat in Cuba) printed on to a t-shirt with the words "cheer up lover and let's go for a wet ride" I wore it to go meet him from work - and we did

It cheered him up

I just want to reiterate that baking a pie decorated with little 3D dicks and fanjos and the word 'COCK' picked out in massive pastry letters on the top (glazed with a proper eggwash) is NOT romantic.

Possibly in Yorkshire though...

Well I'm in Manchester and I wouldn't mind it........

Never underestimate "The way to a Man's heart is through his stomach"

TooSassy, you are not alone:
I made a treasure trail around the house with clues eventually leading to the money to allow XH to buy the vintage motorbike he wanted...
Suffice to say, he tended not to bother with an effort in return got me fuck all, but did manage to buy the au pair a bottle of champagne.
I'm still waiting for someone to do something romantic for me...

Set up a tent in the back yard. Put in a blow up mattress with pillows and duvets, gourmet cheese platter and a movie on my lap top.

Was great.

I wanted to buy him a watch - but had no idea which watch to buy him, so I told him we were going to buy a nice Swiss watch for him...and gave him the tickets for weekend in Geneva that I'd booked.

It was very early days, i dragged him to IKEA to get some furniture for his new flat (long before we moved in together). I spotted a lovely brown teddy bear, he stopped me buying it. Sigh. Few weeks later, its Christmas: under the tree i find the bear with a bunch of flowers and a bottle of champagne. Ahhh

Tried to return the favour, sent him an (anonymously) a metal balloon for Valentines day. We were talking on the phone, i was expecting him to say thank you. Instead he was telling me about an incident at work. A mystery package had been received, no sender and an security scan indicated metal contents so it was being destroyed in a controlled explosion in the car park. Turns out he works in the defence industry and they take these things quite seriously...

FinallyHere that's brilliant!

When I got with my partner we had a chat about her last relationship with someone who was abusive and she said that her diary was filled with depressing things and she ended up throwing it away. One weekend I stayed at hers I bought a lovely new diary-wrapped it up in beautiful paper and hid it under her mattress. I wrote a lovely quote in the front about not being able to change the past but being able to change the future etc. I came home a few days later and told her i though i left something under her mattress.

She said that when she opened it she cried, said it was so thoughtful!

Notgonna - that is romantic

I made my would-be DP a beautiful silk waistcoat for his birthday. Spent a mint on it.

He took it home, tried it on, took it off to hang up, then had to go downstairs to answer the phone, leaving the waistcoat on the bed. When he went back to his room, the cat had barfed all over it.

For a ex.
We ordered pizza from online and I the comments bit I asked them to arrange the suasgae meat in to a heart.

He was amused.

For dp I got a couples book that you have to answer put pictures and memories in.

I got glammed up (cocktail dress/hair done/the works) and went to pick him up from his work in a limousine. He thought I was just meeting him from work as usual and we'd go for a quick dinner - normal date - so it was all a big surprise. Limo drove around for a bit, champagne in the back.
Dinner at -then - a highly fashionable Michellin starred restaurant at which tables were like gold dust. And then home in the limo which was hired for the evening.

Sadly not my idea - I'd read it in a magazine article about "the most romantic date I've ever had" - but it worked a treat!

I've got one AND I was on the receiving end (for those who are giving up hope). I have recently rekindled a relationship with my teenage love. We have been apart for 23 years. When we were together as teenagers he bought me a puzzle ring and it has long since been lost.

When we got back together he found a mangled and tarnished one in a junk shop. He spent two weeks cleaning it up and then reshaping each of the five rings that make the puzzle and surreptitiously measuring my ring finger as we held hands. He managed to get it all back together despite the state it was in and gave it to me. He asked me to marry him too - I said yes!!

Ahh, love the puzzle ring. And the limo, too.

Ahh that is lovely Still!

I decided to buy my now-DH an acoustic guitar about five years ago and researched it for ages. I got my brother to meet me during several lunchtimes/after work in that area with lots of music shops near Tottenham Court Road.

My brother tested loads of guitars for me and I picked the best one I could afford for DH (was absolutely skint at the time, I think my wage left me about £137 a month after bills!). Anyway, I bought it and left it in the guitar shop until Christmas when I smuggled it home and hid it in the wardrobe in our tiny flat.

On Christmas morning I was able to give it to him with ribbon wrapped around the neck. He then pulled out an engagement ring and proposed! To be able to give him that guitar was such a lovely moment and it's now hanging on the living room wall in front of me as I speak!

I paid for a 5 day trip to Paris, including tickets to disneyland a boat trip, a tour round Paris and tickets up the eliffel tower.

he went away with his family, the minute he told me he landed (so I knew he wouldn't sneak up on me) booked the tickets. I went home brought a box and put a load of Paris pictures all over it. put the tickets at the bottom of the box and filled it with stuff representing disney and Paris. (I also brought him tickets to harry potter studios as he wanted to go). so when he got back from holiday I sat him down blind folded him and put the box in front of him. took him about 15 mins to figure it out even after seeing the tickets, and he burst out crying. I then gave him the harry potter tickets and that was it best night of my life ;)