143 Date Night Ideas for Couples

Here are Some Ideas for Date Nights!

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Congratulations, you are in love.You deserve to enjoy yourselves and go out and have some fun.

In addition to being enjoyable, date nights (and date days and date weekends) are great for maintaining a health relationship. But it can be challenging to have enough ideas for your date.

You are not alone if you wish you had more leisure time together. It can be hard to manage your daily obligations and you probably don’t get to see your favorite person as much as you’d like.

One exotic vacation every 2 years is not enough to keep a relationship solid. Consistency is the thing that makes love last in the long-run. World-renown relationship expert, Dr. John Gottman says, “In love, it’s the small things done often that make all the difference.”

How to Plan Your Date Night Ideas

Planning date nights isn’t hard, but it does take a little bit of organization and lots of ideas to choose from in choosing your date.

You want to be having adventures and romance but sometimes the weekend goes by and it just gets swallowed up by other things. You also have big things on your bucket list that you dream about together but haven’t happened yet.

I’ve compiled this list of date night ideas for you and your partner to go through together.

They are divided into Weekly, Monthly and Bucket List categories. I’ve also added conversation prompts so that you make sure you’re continuing to have great conversations and continuing to learn new things about one another.

How to Use this Date Planner

An amazingly successful date is an activity that both of you enjoy. For the best results follow the following steps:

Copy, paste, and print this list so that you and your partner both have your own copy and follow these steps separately
1. Go through each item put a star next to your favorite items
2. Put an X next to all the activities you would like to veto
3. Make notes of any items that are in the wrong category (ie something might be a bucket list due to COVID, or an item I listed as monthly may be something you two already do weekly)
Compare your lists
Get out your calendars and schedule the items that you both starred, including the conversation starters you plan to use.

It’s as simple as that. Have fun with this!

50 Ideas for Weekly Date Night

Watch one of your all time favorite movies on Netflix
Play a board game
Go for a hike
Go for a run
Go for a bike ride
Go for a walk
Play basketball
Go swimming together
Take a drive without a destination
Take turns serving breakfast in bed for one another
Romantic dinner at home – cooking together
Romantic dinner at home – ordering take out
Write a poems or love notes for one another
Choose a book to read together
Work out together
Go to a coffee shop
Go to a farmers market
Go to a thrift store
Have a picnic in the park
Play a video game
Take a bath or shower together
Play “Truth or dare”
Play “Never have I ever”
Give one another massages
Make love in a new way
Hug or kiss for a solid 30 seconds without any expectation of it “leading to something more”
Bake together
Turn out the lights and talk by only candle light
Share your favorite music with one another
Meditate together
Make a scrapbook
Exchange greeting cards expressing what you love about one another
Take the day off in the middle of the week to stay in together
Go to the mall
Get up early to watch the sun rise
Listen to a genre of music neither of you have listened to before
Plan an anniversary celebration and put it on the calendar
Brainstorm ways to add a romantic element to a holiday you already celebrate
Play cards
Grab romantic moments during family activities (ie holding hands)
Run errands together
Have a post card-writing party
Do household chores together
Brainstorm home-improvement ideas
Talk about your bucket lists
Take a 3 hour vacation from tech
Take a 12 hour vacation from tech
Gratitude Marathon (express 12 appreciations in the next 24 hours via text, notes, or cards)
Watch your wedding video together
Put together a photo album

68 Ideas for Monthly Dates

Go out to dinner at a new restaurant
Go out to dinner to one of your favorite places
Go to the movies
Go to an art museum
Go to an arcade
Brunch at one of your favorite places
Brunch somewhere new
Volunteer together
Play laser tag
Take a painting class together
Take a dance class together
Take a film class together
Take a pottery class
Take in improv class
Attend a poetry reading
Attend a writing workshop
Go horseback riding
Go on a double date with friends
Go antiquing
Go out for dessert
Go to a concert
Go camping
Go to a bed and breakfast for the weekend
Get a couples massage
Go to a spa
Go to an amusement park
Go to the beach
Go to a sporting event
Go to the opera
Go to the ballet
Got to the theater
Comedy club
Go boating
Go to a batting cage
Play mini golf
Play golf
Have a photoshoot
Sign up for an athletic competition and train for it together
Go to a tourist event in your own town
Play a racket sport
Go window shopping
Go to a water park
Go out dancing
Go to a bakery and impulse buy
Go on a train ride
Go to a festival
Go to a wildlife reserve
Go to the zoo
Go to an “Escape the Room”
Go to an aquarium
Trivia night
Get tattoos together
Re-affirm your vows privately or publicly
Drive in movie
Go back to the place where you had your first kiss
Go to an orchard to pick your own fruits of vegetables
Join a local sports league (ie volleyball, ultimate frisbee)
Go to a wine tasting
Go to a micro-brewery
Go to a psychic reading
Visit a farm and sample their fresh ice cream
Take a tour of a chocolate factory
Snorkeling
Yoga class
Go to an open mic night
Plan a stay-cation
Join your partner in one of their favorite hobbies
Go to a city you haven’t visited yet

20 Ideas for Bucket List Dates

Go sky diving
Go scuba diving
Take a hot air balloon ride
Go bungee jumping
Climb Mount Everest
Drive race-cars
Visit a national rainforest
Go to a national park
Go to an elephant sanctuary
Go to the Olympics
Go to the Super Bowl
Be in the studio audience of a T.V. production
Go to Europe
Go to Australia
Go to the Middle East
Go to Africa
Go to Asia
Go to North America
Go to South America
Go to a new region on your own continent

Conversation Starter Ideas

Check in about your week, asking open-ended questions
Say 5 things you admire about one another
Say 5 reasons you are lucky to have one another in your lives
Ask one another questions about their future hopes and dreams
Share 5 new things you don’t know about each other

How to Use this Date Night Planner to Plan your Own Private Retreat

Take your dates one step further with a deeper dive on a private couples retreat.

We know from the research that couples who enjoy long lasting love take time out of their busy schedules to enjoy leisure time away while also giving their relationship some TLC.

You can easily create your own couples retreat by grabbing communication workbook and following conversation starters between spa treatments and fine dining. Check out this article for more details:

Maintain Long Lasting Love with a Relationship Workbook

Well Done!

Smart couples understand the importance of prioritizing their relationships and protecting their calendars for the people who are most important to them. By completing this activity, you two are solidifying the most important part of your relationship. A fun, playful, romantic friendship leads to long-term happiness and connection.

Keep up the good work!

More Resources:

Check out this brand new FREE Mini Relationship Toolkit for couples. (Includes a fun Relationship Quiz, Activity Planner and 2 Emapthy Cheat Sheets)