Suggestions to welcome my fiancee?

[~Laura and Nick~ 5]

Culture might play significantly into whatever you wind up doing. (I don't think my SO would enjoy a treasure hunt, but she'd *love* little presents. ) My fiance is a girl's girl, so I plan on putting together a "welcome home" package consisting of a big fluffy bathrobe, her favorite perfume, some bath stuff, a nice brush/comb set, chocolates, and a few food items from her country that are harder to find here like some black bread and preserves. I'll have some little presents for her too, like a necklace or tennis bracelet or something, and some other things I've yet to figure out. Oh, and flowers. Seriously, I'm a dead man if there aren't flowers. You probably are too, that seems pretty universal.

I do want to be careful not to overwhelm her though, so that's something to at least consider. I want her homecoming to be pleasant, but not so over the top that she's completely overloaded. I expect that after her flight (which will be about 27 hours) she's going to want to either take a shower and then go to bed, or just go to bed. So I'm not going to plan anything where she'll have to be awake for too long. We'll do a nice dinner out if she's up to it, otherwise I'll have a backup plan to cook something nice, and we can do the big dinner thing the next day when she's all rested.

Dangit, now you've got me thinking about this again!

Best of luck to you, and have fun!

Kirk...

So so nice.

She'll love this

[Jeraly 4]

Hey moxie - did you ever check out lush?

I've sent them an e-mail to suggest a store in Palm Springs... LA is too far for me and shipping is expensive! But I *love* their stuff... can really recommend the bubble bar slices

[*JG* 2]

Hey moxie - did you ever check out lush?

I've sent them an e-mail to suggest a store in Palm Springs... LA is too far for me and shipping is expensive! But I *love* their stuff... can really recommend the bubble bar slices

I LOVE that you brought this up. I work at one of the the St. Louis stores. My husband is a Lush convert!

[Jeraly 4]

Oh you do!??!!??! *drools* I love the place!! Thing is the closest one to me will be LA and I am 90 minutes away I am so going to have to stock up

[mateo 0]

I recommend the following:

For Guys waiting for Girls:

A full laundry basket

A broom

An iron

A shopping list

A request for what you want for dinner

For the Girls waiting for Guys:

A 30 pack of beer

Strategically placed newspapers and magazines, near the toilets

Maybe a cigar or two

A massage

(2 weeks before maybe little diet, you know we all could use one)

Some lingerie (you know that lacy stuff)

ok sorry I could not resist! Really the best is probably relaxing and cleaning up and nothing to elaborate, unless you are going from Manitoba to North Dakota. Save the big stuff for day 2.

[Alex & Rachel 78]

my hubby took me to In&Out Burger after he picked me up at the airport.. how romantic is he??

Hey, if you feel the need to stop at a fast food joint you can't do better than In 'n' Out! I never eat fast food here in the UK but I did like eating out in the US.

Lush is amazing, I'm thirding/fourthing it.

Also love the key idea

[bora bora 1]

I went to my hubby's interview so we came back togther. My best friend picked us up at the airport with a bottle of wine and a HUGE balloon...

He was so tired, but hungry too. We arrived in Miami, drove to West Palm where we ate at Applebee's (he loved it!!), and then I drove us home to Orlando - he slept the whole way.

[Marilyn. 340]

my hubby took me to In&Out Burger after he picked me up at the airport.. how romantic is he??

Hey, if you feel the need to stop at a fast food joint you can't do better than In 'n' Out! I never eat fast food here in the UK but I did like eating out in the US.

Lush is amazing, I'm thirding/fourthing it.

Also love the key idea

well to be fair I was the one who told him that is where I wanted to go after I got there

but I figured he would have flowers or something too ...

[joyTIM 0]

my husband surprised me with 24 long stemmed roses when i arrive at LAX. Then he took me to a very nice candlelight dinner at a 5 star hotel. when we got home, our bedroom was literally full of roses as well... it was so romantic

[Nutty 2]

My fiancee will be arriving in about 2 days to join me.

I would like to welcome her to my home and make this a memorable event...

I was considering maybe getting her a cake, rose along with candles to surprise her!

any other suggestions?

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Make sure to have Bollywood and India network channels on your tv (just in case she get's a little homesick).

Make sure to have all the ingredients needed to make aloo parantha and all the basic foods.

Make sure the place is clean....

Top it off with candles and flowers and some nice Mrs Sees candies (or traditional indian sweets, I always liked ras malai )

[Kathryn41 3,207]

Sounds lovely! I am sure she will appreciate your thoughtfulness.

Take care of some practical matters too - I appreciated that my husband had cleared out a whole dresser for my things and half the walk in closet in the bedroom so that I could just unpack. Make sure she has space for her things in the bathroom shelves or counter as well.

Since my husband was driving me back he couldn't really have fresh flowers waiting but we went out for dinner on our first night back - and he had purchased a new kitty litter box with kitty litter already in it so we could let the cats out right away and not worry about having to find and unpack all that stuff. It was appreciated!

Hehehe, he did go out and buy me two dozen roses the next day though:-).

[JVKn'CVO 11]

Oh, I just remembered another one! Justin had a working cell phone for me when I arrived, thoughfull and very practical

Also, if she'll be driving, a GPS

Saludos,

Caro

[Jeraly 4]

I am so pointing Jeremy in the direction of this thread

[Jason-Sasha 1]

naked....with a bow, of course.

[Alex & Rachel 78]

naked....with a bow, of course.

That sounds more like what a fiancée would do to welcome her fiancé