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Why Do I Have to Log In Again?Friday, February 13, 2009; Page WE24
In case you've been hibernating far from drugstores and restaurants, tomorrow is Valentine's Day. Some people have been planning this special day for weeks. They ordered the perfect flowers, picked the perfect place for dinner and made perfect reservations. · Then there are the rest of us. · It might be too late to get a prime table at one of the hottest restaurants in town, but take heart: You can still pull off a romantic evening -- flowers, dinner with a nice bottle of wine, a nightcap at a hot lounge. Let the experts tell you how it's done.
Flowers
Option No. 1 for last-minute flowers: You could pick up some day-old, slightly-too-open roses from a guy outside a Metro station. But that's the dead giveaway that you forgot to buy flowers in advance and might not win you any points with your date.
So let's move on to options No. 2 and 3, okay, Romeo?
Florist Allan Woods, who opened his eponymous store in Woodley Park in 1976, says that about 50 percent of his customers wait until Valentine's Day to purchase flowers. At your better florists, it's generally not a case of having to grab the last bunch of roses in the cooler. Most flower shops ordered extra stock months ago. "We seldom sell out of flowers [on Valentine's Day]," Woods says.
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