By Jeff Labine

Flowers and chocolate still the Valentine’s Day standard

Feb 14, 2017 | 12:00 PM

Josh Kieley has learned a valuable lesson – purchase flowers ahead of Valentine’s Day.

This year marked the first time he and his girlfriend would be celebrating the romantic occasion together since the two have only been dating for a month. With so much riding on the day, Kieley decided to go buy a bouquet of roses for his girlfriend.

He said not ordering roses ahead of time was a mistake.

“Order your roses in advance otherwise you are going to be in the dog house big time,” he said. “This is kind of the first and very important Valentine’s Day, which is why I’m sort of very grateful [Scentiments Floral] was able to get me some roses on such short notice.”

Besides the flowers, Kieley said he plans to take his girlfriend to a theatre show in Saskatoon on Wednesday.

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Marj Davidson, one of the owners of Scentiments, said she couldn’t describe how busy the local business gets around Valentine’s. She said when she arrived into work Tuesday morning, there was more than 30 orders ready to go.

“Wear your most comfortable shoes and you will be running around all day,” she said. 

She explained a lot of people are buying roses – both red and in multiple colours – as well as tulips. The cost each person spends varies based whether a customer buys more than roses like a vase, stuffed animals or chocolates.

“Whatever their budget entails, we work with that,” she added.

Flowers weren’t the only Valentine’s Day item purchased.

Prince Albert’s chocolatier Melanie Quintal, who owns Forever and Always Chocolates, has provided homemade sweets for the past four years. Although Valentine’s Day isn’t the busiest chocolate day – Christmas takes the top spot in that category – Quintal explained her store has received a lot of orders.

“Chocolates are classy, and romantic and decadent,” she said. “It is something you can splurge on once and a while. Chocolate isn’t something you do every day. You want to save it for those special moments.”

Quintal added she can never tell how many chocolates she will sell but believed this was one of her busiest years yet.

Jeff.Labine@jpbg.ca

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