Not necessarily. No more than someone asking you out on a first date means you two are “dating”. The thing is, being someone’s “Valentine” is so vague it’s basically meaningless.

Your average person. Well, if you want to be their Valentine then I would suggest just saying “yeah I’ll be your Valentine,” or simply “yes :).” You could also say “yeah I’ll be your valentine, will you be mine?” Those answers are what I (personally) would say.

She says you ask someone to be your Valentine prior to Valentine’s Day so that you can make plans for Valentine’s Day itself. However, I say that you ask someone on the day of so that it’s more of a surprise to both parties, then you make plans accordingly. Send her a gift.

Being someone’s Valentine generally means that you are the special person that he/she chose to spend time with during that special day.

Friends can celebrate Valentines Day, too. Contrary to popular belief, and what all those Hallmark cards represent, the holiday is definitely not exclusive to couples in love and fancy dinner reservations. It’s about showing affection to the VIPs in your life.

Valentine’s Day, also called Saint Valentine’s Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14….

The ancient Romans may also be responsible for the name of our modern day of love. Emperor Claudius II executed two men — both named Valentine — on Feb. 14 of different years in the 3rd century A.D. Their martyrdom was honored by the Catholic Church with the celebration of St. Valentine’s Day.

Valentine’s Day is named after Saint Valentine, a Catholic priest who lived in Rome in the 3rd Century. There are many stories about St Valentine and over time these stories grew into the legend we know today. Valentine was executed on 14 February in the year 270.

For Your Sweetie

• “Happy Valentine’s Day, Gorgeous.”
• “Wishing the sweetest, happiest day to my forever Valentine.”
• “Tonight is all ours.
• “Especially today, I hope you feel how much I love you and how grateful I am to have you in my life.”
• “You take my breath away.
• “You have no idea how sexy you are.”

Roman

The origins of Valentine’s Day are murky. We do know that the ancient Romans celebrated the feast of Lupercalia, a spring festival, on the 15th of February. With the introduction of Christianity, the holiday moved to the 14th of February–the saint day that celebrated several early Christian martyrs named Valentine.

Valentine’s Day: A Day of Romance Lupercalia survived the initial rise of Christianity but was outlawed—as it was deemed “un-Christian”—at the end of the 5th century, when Pope Gelasius declared February 14 St. Valentine’s Day. It was not until much later, however, that the day became definitively associated with love.

The earliest possible origin story of Valentine’s Day is the pagan holiday Lupercalia. Occurring for centuries in the middle of February, the holiday celebrates fertility. Lupercalia was popular and one of the few pagan holidays still celebrated 150 years after Christianity was legalized in the Roman Empire.

The popular-culture perception of Santa Claus typically involves images of elves, reindeer and the North Pole. However, the white-bearded figure associated with Christianity’s major holiday has pagan roots. Santa Claus is primarily linked to St. Nicholas, the Greek bishop of Myra, a Roman town in Turkey.

The Bible does not directly address the holiday of a Mother’s Day in its verses, but often addresses the celebration of motherhood and mothers, such as in the following passages.

As it’s a Christian day, it falls every year on the fourth day of Lent, the Christian period of fasting that leads up to Easter. Nowadays, for most Brits, the day is actually a secular (and very commercial) celebration, like the one celebrated in the United States, which was founded by Anna Jarvis.

Anna Jarvis originated Mother’s Day when, on May 12, 1907, she held a memorial service at her late mother’s church in Grafton, West Virginia. Her mother had organized women’s groups to promote friendship and health. Festivals honouring mothers and mother goddesses date to ancient times.