Valentines Day Email Cards
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Sending Valentine’s Day email cards can be a fun way to share the holiday with someone you’re dating, but cards should always be carefully chosen so there is no misinterpretation of their intent.
Types of Valentine’s Day Email Cards
Email cards come in an extremely wide array of styles, designs, and messages suitable for everyone from casual friends and acquaintances to intimately romantic couples. Popular Valentine’s Day card themes include:
- Flowers, especially roses
- Hearts
- Chocolates
- Romantic scenes such as candlelit dinners, fireplaces, or sunset beaches
- Lips or kisses
- Cute animals with Valentine’s Day decorations
- Cupid imagery
Depending on the card style, there may be more deluxe features available in addition to a themed image, such as:
- Background music
- Different font style and color choices
- Animations
- Room for a personalized message
Free or Premium?
When searching for online Valentine’s Day e-cards, both free and premium cards are available. Free cards are the most popular and offer a good range of styles, though they do have limitations in terms of the amount of personalization and choices available. Furthermore, free cards may feature prominent advertisements both when creating the card and when the recipient views it.
Premium cards, on the other hand, have a nominal fee but generally offer fewer ads and greater customization options. The artwork used for premium cards may be more exclusive and of a higher quality as well.
Tips for Sending Email Cards on Valentine’s Day
It’s not enough just to type out a quick message and hit send with an email Valentine’s Day card. Cards can easily be misinterpreted or inappropriate, but the following tips can help you send just the right card to that someone special.
- Choose a card design consistent with your relationship. A deeply romantic card may be awkward to send to someone you’ve only just begun dating, while a cutesy, best friend style card may be disappointing if you are in a more committed relationship.
- Valentine’s Day email cards are most appropriate for casual relationships, though romantic scenes can be perfect for a deeper attraction. An e-card, however, should not replace other romantic gifts or events on Valentine’s Day because it could indicate a lack of effort or dedication to making the day special. The exception is online dating – if a couple’s relationship has been exclusively via the Internet or if they met from an online dating website, an e-card can be especially sentimental for them, no matter what design it has or what type of relationship they currently share.
- Choose an appropriate card design for when the recipient is likely to view the card. Loud music and animations may be disruptive or embarrassing at the workplace or in other public areas.
- Personalize each card with sincere sentiments, a line or two of poetry, or a personal message rather than just a basic note of friendship or affection.
A Note about Proposal Cards
There is a large subset of romantic cards specially dedicated to marriage proposals and wedding imagery complete with wedding scenes, diamond rings, and on-bended-knee poses. While these may make very romantic, lovely Valentine’s Day cards, they are also easily misinterpreted if the couple is not engaged. An initial marriage proposal should not be tendered via email, but a proposal-oriented card can be a fun option for couples who are recently engaged.
Where to Find Valentine's Day E Cards
There are dozens of websites that offer free or premium e-cards for holidays. In addition to looking at Valentine’s Day themed cards, however, more subtle designs – a nice landscape, a bouquet of flowers, or a cuddly animal, for example – can easily be personalized with a Valentine’s Day message. Be sure to browse several websites to see the wide range of options available and choose the design of card that best reflects your relationship.
Websites offering a range of Valentine’s Day styles and other romantic email cards include:
- Vermont Teddy Bear Valentines
- Care 2
- Greet2K
- AwesomeCards.com
- Blue Mountain
- 123 Greetings
- ValentinesDayCards.net
- All 4 Love
- Smilebox
- EGreetings.com
- Hi Greetings
- Virtual Chocolate
- 1001Postcards.org
- River Songs
- ChristiaNet.com
- Happy Day Cards
- Virtual Florist
- Virtual Flowers
Sending Valentine’s Day email cards can be a fun and easy way to share romantic sentiments with a casual friend or a more intimate acquaintance. With a wide range of styles available, there is a friendly or romantic option available for any type of relationship with just a click of the mouse.
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