By Cheryl Jahn

It’s the day of romance!

Feb 14, 2025 | 2:45 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – Pink roses represent grace, gratitude, and admiration. Orange roses represent joy, enthusiasm, emerging desires, and lively feelings. Yellow roses say friendship, joy, and positivity. But red roses! Well, those are flowers of love, romance and passion. And clearly, the go-to rose for Valentine’s Day.

“Currently, it’s most traditional, but there’s always the ones that you want something a little less traditional,” says Kaitlyn Anderson with Mrs. Flowers. “Maybe not just the reds and pinks. We definitely have that as well. Something for everybody. You don’t have to just get flowers. You can get chocolates. We’ve got lots of candles or classic, different stuffed animals as well. There’s make it a whole package.”

And as Kaitlyn says, flowers are not the only popular gift for sweethearts. The sweets are another big seller on this special day. But is it women who buy chocolates for their sweet tooth honey?

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“I think it’s about 50-50 throughout the day of guys and girls coming in,” says Trent Derrick, Owner of the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. “So they get each other there, their chocolates and they get their chocolate chip strawberries.”

So what is it about chocolate?

“It’s just comforting,” says Derrick. “No matter how it is, it reminds us of our childhood. It reminds us of good times and it reminds us. It gives us hope no matter what times we are, and that there’s always something sweet and better for us. So I think that’s why we we love chocolate on Valentine’s Day.”

So whether its flowers or chocolates or any other knickknack to express your devotion to a loved one, you can never go wrong.