5 Creative Ideas for National Love Your Husband Day

By Fawn Weaver on Friday, November 22, 2013

5 Creative Ideas for National Love Your Husband Day

Earlier this week, I let the cat out of the bag in our weekly newsletter that Happy Wives Club has gotten behind something really BIG that is about to happen!

We are exactly two months away from National Love Your Husband Day.  Never heard of that holiday?  Well, keep reading…  

Earlier this year, I came across an article about Love Your Wife Day in Japan.  Annually, men line up in a town square, flanked by bouquets of flowers for their wives.

One-by-one, they walk onto a stage and begin professing love for their wives – at the top of their lungs.  Literally.

Initially, when I saw a video on it, I thought, “Why are they yelling like that?  Don’t they know the microphone will project their voice?” 

Whatever the reason, it seemed like each husband had been waiting all year for that one special day to put the love they have for their wife on full display for all of Japan to see.

“We need a national holiday like this for our husbands!” I thought.  ”Minus the time square and yelling thing.”  

So I began investigating.  How can Happy Wives Club sponsor a national holiday?  

I knew there were days like National Peanut Butter Day (January 24th) and National Kissing Day (July 6th), so there had to be a way to create one to publicly shower our husbands with love.

A wonderful friend, who is a former Congressional staffer, began researching what it would take to sponsor a national holiday.  She discovered, there are two ways (one pretty simple, one quite difficult) so we decided to pursue both.

The result: Beginning in 2014, National Love Your Husband Day will become a reality.  So mark your calendars now!

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Of course, this doesn’t mean we love on our husbands any less every day of the week.  This is just one day a year to go all out – to do something for him you might not usually do.  And that, my friends, is the reason I sent out the announcement in our newsletter (**you can sign up for it too, by the way**) two months in advance and why I’m now mentioning it here.

After sharing this news with our newsletter subscribers, I received hundreds of emails filled with excitement.  And yes, I read and responded to each one (still responding, actually).  From many of these emails emerged some fantastic ideas for things other women have begun planning to do for their husbands on January 22nd.

Based on those responses, I’ve pulled together 5 creative ideas to help you begin planning for that special day with your man:

1. Give him this free printable or this one (how cool is this?!) that shows you were one of the original sponsors of this holiday.  As a member or supporter of the Happy Wives Club (over 400,000 and counting), you are the only reason this holiday has materialized.  Take pride in that and let him know his love inspired you to be a part of making sure this holiday was created…just for him. (**You only need to join the Club, if you haven’t already, to be one of the original sponsors.)

2. Choose from any of these cheap and creative ‘just because’ gift ideas for him.  Some of these take time and planning but you have two full months before National Love Your Husband Day so you should be in good shape.

3. Call your husband’s job and request the day off.  Now, only do this one if it will not embarrass or upset him.  The husband of a friend of mine did this recently and she was overjoyed.  She was running around planning to get to a meeting with her boss and coworkers and they all told her, “Sorry, you’re not coming.  Go home.  Darryl has plans for you.”  It was such an amazing surprise (it wasn’t her birthday or their anniversary) and from that moment on, her entire office knew exactly how much her husband was in love.

4.Turn your Husband Gratitude List into a beautiful handmade card or have one of your creative friends (or you, if you’re a creative, Etsy, DIY soul) turn it into a beautiful printable that you can frame.

5. If you’re parents, arrange for a babysitter or family to come and take care of the kids. One woman who responded said she began planning the day based on a carpool schedule.  She was arranging a carpool with another mom in advance and as soon as she gets the kids out of the house, this special day with her husband will begin (and, of course, he has no idea).

Rest assured, I’ll be posting tons of ideas for National Love Your Husband Day between now and January 22, 2014.  But make sure you mark your calendar now and let the planning of this special day in our household begin.

Until Monday…make it a great weekend!

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Fawn Weaver is the USA Today® and New York Times® bestselling author of Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage, adopting the same name as the Club she founded in 2010. The Happy Wives Club community has grown to include more than 900,000 women in over 110 countries around the world. When she’s not blogging or working on her next project, she's happily doting over her husband of nearly eleven years, Keith.

 

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  • Elizabeth Martinez

    I’m super excited about this special day in January that I am getting tear up. Thank you so much!!!!

    • http://www.happywivesclub.com/ Fawn @ Happy Wives Club

      Yeah!! Super excited too! So happy you’r going to be a part of the festivities! Good times :) .

  • A Duet

    This sounds pretty awesome, and another great way to celebrate our love. In my house though, every day is Husband day, cause he’s just too great not to celebrate!

    • http://www.happywivesclub.com/ Fawn @ Happy Wives Club

      Ditto here! Every day is husband day for sure. Just another way to celebrate these fabulous husbands of ours :) .

  • Honey

    I think this is a GREAT idea! Glad to be apart of something so AWESOME!

    • http://www.happywivesclub.com/ Fawn @ Happy Wives Club

      Yeah! So happy you will be a part of this with us!!

  • Lisa

    Fantastic idea! I am having trouble with the 2nd link for the printable though. It brings up a WordPress log in which requires a user name and password. Is there a way to access the printable without it? Thanks!

    • http://www.happywivesclub.com/ Fawn @ Happy Wives Club

      Whoops! Fixing that right now. Thanks for the heads up, Lisa.

    • http://www.happywivesclub.com/ Fawn @ Happy Wives Club

      Thanks again, Lisa. I entered in the link as if I were editing it (note to self: slooooow down, Fawn :) ). It’s updated to reflect the correct link.

  • Darby Dugger

    Ah! Love this! And it just so happens that January 22nd is the day my husband and I met! So, we shall be celebrating! :)

    • http://www.happywivesclub.com/ Fawn @ Happy Wives Club

      Nice!! That sounds like a fabulous day for this, Darby. Love it.

  • Mrs G

    Well, the reason of this special holiday in Japan is that people are far less demonstrative and they do not use expressions such as ‘I love you” on a regular basis. A bit as it happened in Western society in the past. So they have create this day, where they “allow” themselves to express their love in an explicit manner.
    And for suggestion number 3, I’m afraid that if I do it, my husband will serve me divorce papers for embarrassing him at work in front of all his colleagues.
    We are not Japanese, but we are not American either, meaning that we are a bit less private than Japanese but a bit more private than Americans. We would write a nice card, buy a nice gift but not explicitly show off our love in front of everybody. We did it on our wedding day and it was enough.
    I apologize if I sound like criticizing, but I thought a different cultural perspective might be useful and adding to the discussion.

    • http://www.happywivesclub.com/ Fawn @ Happy Wives Club

      Thanks for your note. Of course, there is a difference between the US and Japan and how we express ourselves. But do you think there’s a reason not to have a day set aside for publicly celebrating husbands?

      Oh yes, and in regard to #3, I don’t know if you noticed that I began it by saying, “Now, only do this one if it will not embarrass or upset him.” Everyone is very different. I know many men who would love that (and many that would not). So it’s about knowing your husband. For mine, he’d be embarrassed but ultimately would think it was incredibly thoughtful because his days are long and the work never ends. I know his entire team and his boss very well so they would all get a huge kick out it.

      Again, it’s just about knowing your husband and what works for him and knowing your marriage and what works best for it. And then just enjoying the ride :) .