The size of your heart cannot be measured by the amount of candy you buy for the occasion. However, if you embrace your mate with no gift in hand on Valentine's Day, good luck with true love. You are going to need it. Cards with hearts and romantic poems on them. Red flowers to show passion.
Cute teddy bears.
But whatever you give with love makes a good gift - at least, that's what I've heard. Valentine's Day has become an international phenomenon. 270 A.D. The Roman Emperor at the time, Claudius II, was obsessed with war. To realize his high military expectations, he needed soldiers. Claudius was convinced he didn't have enough soldiers for his conquests because young men were too busy falling in love and getting married.