Happy February 14: beautiful cards, funny pictures, the best congratulations in prose

Valentine's Day is a holiday celebrated all over the world. Every year the celebrations are held on February 14 on the Day of Remembrance of the early Christian saint Valentine, who is considered the patron saint of loving hearts. "Izvestia" prepared funny congratulations and cards with Valentine's Day, which will help to congratulate your loved one with the holiday in an original way.

The most beautiful cards with Valentine's Day on February 14

An invariable attribute of Valentine's Day for many centuries is a valentine - a greeting card, usually in the shape of a heart, which is customary to give to loved ones. Its traditional colors are red or pink, which symbolizes love and devotion.

It is believed that the prototype of the valentine was St. Valentine's love letter to his beloved. A Roman priest was sentenced to execution for secretly marrying lovers despite the ban on Catholic marriages at the time. On the eve of his execution, he sent a letter to his beloved, signing it "Your Valentine." Since then, love messages have been called valentines.

However, ancient postcards have not survived to this day. The oldest valentine was found in a library in England. It was written in 1477. In that message, a young girl asks her lover to prove his love and reports that by all means will get them a dowry from their parents.

The authorship of the oldest valentine is also attributed to the Duke of Orleans, who lived in the XV century. While in prison, he shortened the time that he composed love messages to his wife, and on Valentine's Day even decided to surprise her with an unusual gift for that time as a postcard.

Happy Valentine's Day: the most beautiful valentines, congratulations in prose, poems

Funny funny pictures of February 14, Happy Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day was widely spread c XVIII century. But then the tradition of giving cards was peculiar mainly to aristocrats due to the high cost of paper and postage. Initially, valentine's cards were made with their own hands. They were decorated with lace, ribbons and dried rosebuds that represented love, and the paper was sprayed with favorite perfume.

Congratulations were accompanied by fervent confessions and sublime poems about love by fashionable poets of the time. Later, there were typographic postcards depicting cupids, funny angels, couples in love and children kissing. There were also cards with flirty content, designed to warm up the feelings of the chosen one.

However, valentines of the Victorian era contained not only cupids and lush bouquets of roses, but also subjects of ironic, humorous, and sometimes frankly sarcastic nature. The English called them "vinegar valentines" (Vinegar Valentines). Among the most frequent subjects are rejected lovers, refusal of marriage proposals, dissatisfaction with a person's mind or appearance.

They were intended primarily for obsessive admirers and ill-wishers. Most often such valentines were sent anonymously. And until the 1840s, the cost of postage paid not the sender, but the recipient.

Unflattering novelties were very popular in England and the United States. In the 1870s, New York printer John McLaughlin and his cartoonist Charles Howard even created their own lines of such valentines.

In three hundred years, Valentine's Day cards have undergone great changes. Animated and musical valentines have appeared, and recently neural networks have come to the aid of lovers, with the help of which it is possible to create colorful and extremely realistic pictures.

Valentine's Day - 2025: congratulations in your own words for your sweetheart and beloved.

Postcards are often supplemented with congratulations in verse or prose. Here are some examples of how to originally congratulate the beloved with Valentine's Day with your own words:

"Happy holiday, my beloved! You are my most important Valentine, you take my breath away every day! And remember that you are the only person to whom I send emoji in the form of hearts".

"Finally, I found someone who doesn't annoy me. I think it's love! And seriously, I have no idea how I lived before you. You are my ray of light and my support. I congratulate you on the holiday of love and all lovers!"

"Before Valentine's Day I did an important research and found out that you are the rarest kind of man on the planet and there are no more men like you! I am very happy that such a rare specimen belongs to me. I promise to love you all my life and keep you in red-hot conditions."

"Every beat of my heart is a declaration of love to you. You are my rhythm, my pulse, my life. Happy Valentine's Day, sweetheart!"

"I never liked Valentine's Day, but then I met you and everything changed. And now when I hear any love song, I feel like it was composed about us. Thank you, my love, for being in my life!"

"Happy Valentine's Day! For some it's just a holiday, but for me it's a long-awaited occasion to say that I love you. Let these words sound on this very day. I hope my feelings are mutual and you won't break my fragile heart."

"Every time I see you, it's Valentine's Day for me. Grateful to you for this eternal holiday in my life and I want it to never end."

Earlier "Izvestia" told how much it costs to organize a date on Valentine's Day.