What is Valentine's Day

The lead designers of Urban Rubbish Floristry share how to create different styles of arrangements from floral to sweet.

Goodie bags can be a great addition to flowers or something that can stand alone. If you find yourself in a pinch for time Tuesday, Urban Rubbish Floristry has pre-made arrangements that can be picked up. Along with florals, arrangements can include your special someone’s favorite items in a basket, like throw blankets, coffee mugs, face masks and flowers in a bud vase. All it takes is putting the bud vases together off-centered on the table and surrounding them with a few small candles or tealights. Some flowers you can find in stores to use for arrangements include roses, carnations, gunni eucalyptus, wax flowers and mimosa flowers. Although options can be limited, the lead designers of Urban Rubbish Floristry, Meagan Garza and Hannah Moore, have several ways to create standout arrangements.

Ashley Manning, owner of Pretty Things by A.E. Manning, plans on Tuesday to deliver goodies to roughly 800 local widows or people without partners through the ...

We have flipped the script and turned it into a holiday that is not just for people who are married or have a partner to celebrate with," Manning said. "It's a total surprise, and there is a lot of confusion. "The first year I thought I could, but it was a disaster and will never happen again," she said. "I had a little platform and was able to ask people in my community through Instagram to help with outreach. Manning raised $50,000 and amassed more than 1,000 volunteers to support the effort. "I made an arrangement for my son's preschool teacher and she was taken aback by it.

The rose business on Valentine's Day is a mad rush of flowers grown and shipped from around the world.

[WBUR.org.](https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2023/02/14/valentines-day-rose-business) An intricate supply chain must come together to cap off a single day. [ Stacey Vanek Smith](https://www.npr.org/people/350888943/stacey-vanek-smith) reports.

Valentine's Day is one of the busiest days of the year for florists, and the Flower Bar in Bozeman is no exception.

A variety of industries have been impacted by not just the pandemic, but high gas prices, shipping delays, a labor shortage, natural disasters, weather, and more. Wood’s original step into the flower world began when she answered an ad to deliver flowers on Valentine’s Day for a local shop in Bozeman. “We’ve been starting Valentine’s Day planning since November, so it’s like a six-month project.”

Swiggy Instamart, Dunzo, Zepto, and Blinkit have recorded a steep rise in demand for roses and chocolates order during Valentine's week.

Gurumurthy noted that Instamart works with a Bengaluru-based enterprise called Four Seasons Flower Depot which has been in the business for about 38 years. Similarly, Blinkit recorded 2,000 chocolate orders per hour on February 9 (Chocolate Day). “In 2022, Instamart fulfilled over 2.5 lakh rose orders during this period. In fact, we crossed our selling target and hit a 100 per cent sale on all the roses that we had procured. Icecreams saw a growth of over 50 per cent in the second week of February,” Vinay Dhanani, COO, Zepto told businessline. Quick commerce players like Swiggy Instamart, Dunzo, Zepto, Blinkit have recorded a steep rise in demand for roses and chocolates order during Valentine’s week (February 7 to 14).

Etiquette expert William Hanson tells Newsbeat the dos and don'ts for your socials after a split.

"I wouldn't suggest doing a thirst trap ever but I can understand the desire for people to get a little bit of validation from people online." If we haven't all done it, we've probably thought about it. "Writing it down on your phone can help, but actually sending it to them very rarely does and you can come across as a little bit weird if you do that." "It's never a good idea to post publicly about your break-up, to bad mouth them," William says. "I would be tempted to go cold turkey for a few days, just to really reflect and think about what the best course of action should be." And I would just take a moment to think what you do," William tells Newsbeat.