Valentine's Day or Saint Valentine's Day is a holiday celebrated on February 14 by many people throughout the world. In the West, it is the traditional day on which lovers express their love for each other by sending Valentine's cards, presenting flowers, or offering confectionery. The holiday is named after two among the numerous Early Christian martyrs named Valentine, though it was not associated with romantic love at that time. The day was a pagan festival of love, which was taken over by the Church that disapproved of its romantic and sexual connotations, renamed for "Saint Valentine" and made into a day for martyrs.

The day became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished.

The day is most closely associated with the mutual exchange of love notes in the form of "valentines." Modern Valentine symbols include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten notes have largely given way to mass-produced greeting cards. The sending of Valentines was a fashion in nineteenth-century Great Britain, and, in 1847, Esther Howland developed a successful business in her Worcester, Massachusetts home with hand-made Valentine cards based on British models. The popularity of Valentine cards in 19th-century America was a harbinger of the future commercialization of holidays in the United States.

* Advance Happy Valentines everyone! I'm hoping you would have a good time celebrating the special occasion with your loved once. I'm just going out with a friend tomorrow, and watch a Filipino romantic-comedy movie which I think is a big hit in my country this February for Valentine's Day. Just hoping to watch and enjoy the company of my friend tomorrow and probably call and text my other friends and greet them... *