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20 Valentine’s Day video ideas

Updated January 20, 2025

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Make your loved ones feel appreciated this Valentine’s Day with a video. A video can help you add a personal flourish that an e-card simply can’t match.

Create heartfelt video messages, promote a Valentine’s Day sale ad, or share a special vlog, and more with an easy video editor like Clipchamp.  

20 Valentine’s Day videos for creators and businesses

1. Love story slideshow video

Express your love for each other by taking a trip down memory lane. Make a slideshow video as a gift for your valentine. Add video and images of where you first met, your journey, and some memorable events spent together. Edit with creative transitions like hearts in between your video clips and pastel filters to enhance your video. Get started with this ready-to-use slideshow video template perfect for Instagram.

2. Valentine’s Day animated greeting card

Planning a special Valentine’s Day surprise, or simply want to share Valentine’s Day messages with friends? Create the perfect animated greeting card this Valentine’s Day without recording any photos or video clips. Select some romantic stock footage, type your heartfelt message using animated text, and save and share your video card with loved ones. 

3. Valentine’s Day meme GIF

Add some laughter and fun to your Valentine’s Day celebrations with video memes about dating and relationships. If you have a funny or embarrassing video of your loved one, you can turn a video into a GIF. You can even create a GIF using your webcam or by cutting your favorite part out of a YouTube video. Simply edit a meme video template and start sharing it with friends in the group chat.

4. Valentine’s Day gift guide

Spark some inspiration with a Valentine’s Day video gift guide for your followers, featuring a list of your favorite lifestyle, food, DIY or jewelry picks, and more. This is a great video idea for both creators and businesses as you can promote a business while helping friends and followers. Make your gift guide easy to follow by adding text labels and a voiceover explaining why you love the gift idea. You can record your own voice or make a lifelike audio with the AI text to speech generator.

5. Valentine’s Day sales video ad

Announce a special sale or share affiliate marketing links as a creator using a sales promo video in time for Valentine’s Day. Show your customers some love with a special February 14th discount code, free shipping, or other offers. Share your sales promo video on social media like Instagram Stories or run it as sponsored ads on Instagram and Facebook. Add eye-catching sale and heart video stickers to match the theme. 

6. Valentine’s Day quote video

Create a video filled with your favorite quotes about love and togetherness or funny Valentine’s quotes. Quote videos are very popular and shareable on Instagram. Source your quotes from classic books, cult movies or TV shows, or write up your own. Add your text on top of an animated stock video background to make a lovely social media video and status video. If you’re looking for some inspiration, use this free quote video template.

7. Galentine's Day video card

It's always a good time to celebrate friendships and sisterhood. Share compliments and appreciation for your friends by recording a warm video message for them on your phone, then editing it into a thank you card with Clipchamp. Customize the video frame, add stickers and sentimental music to perfect the video. Get started by editing this beautiful video template. 

8. Valentine’s Day party invitation

There are so many ways to celebrate this occasion. Whether you're organizing a themed party for friends or trying self-care and art activities with friends or hosting a special Galentine's Day party, do it with a stylish invitation video. Simply swap out the text to share the time, place and instructions like a dress code. 

9. Valentine's Day TikTok vlog

Have a special day planned with a loved one? Share snippets from your day with a TikTok video. You can choose to splice three second videos together from your whole day or simply share one part of your day like a 'get ready with me' or your dinner experience and restaurant review. Add relatable text overlays and nail your video montage aesthetic with trending filters. 

10. Valentine’s Day recipe video

Whether you love it or hate it, Valentine’s Day usually involves a romantic dinner for two. So why not share your favorite dinner ideas through a fun-filled TikTok or YouTube Shorts clip. Create an entertaining tutorial video or simply list your Valentine’s Day theme dinner ideas to post on social media.

11. Valentine’s Day video for mom

Valentine’s Day isn’t just for loved-up couples. Celebrate the day of love and make mom (or dad) feel special through an appreciation video. Get started by editing this video template or mums and swapping out your name into the video for some personalized memories. You can also record a video message and edit it after the card template, add subtitles and share it on social media to show mum you care. 

12. Valentine’s Day video with pets

Don’t have a human Valentine? Show some love to your furry friends this Valentine’s Day. Create a social media video packed with cute memories of you and your pets, along with a message of appreciation or a funny joke. Try an online webcam recorder if you need help recording videos of you and your pet.

13. Valentine's Day status video

Single or taken? Whatever the answer, let your friends and followers know with a Valentine's Day status video to share on WhatsApp, Instagram Stories or chat apps. There are lots of status videos you can share, from quotes to memes. You can also shout out your valentine with this video template, by adding their name using animated text and using a unique font.

14. Valentine's Day history video 

Tell the story of the origins of this global calendar event. Not many know that Valentine's Day originated from the ancient Roman festival of Lupercalia, later transformed by the Church to honor St. Valentine, evolving over time into a celebration of love. Create an engaging slideshow video to share the history of the occasion. 

15. Valentine’s Day free gift promo video 

Build hype for your business online and appeal to shoppers with a great offer like free gift with purchase. No matter what you're selling—gift boxes for couples, handmade items, Valentine’s Day cards—sweeten the deal with a free item from your business. Showcase this deal by collaborating with an influencer to make an unboxing video, or simply posting promo videos on your Instagram Stories. 

16. Valentine’s Day restaurant guide 

Spotlight a list of your favorite restaurants to help friends and followers plan a great date on Valentine’s Day. Just like a gift guide, make sure to add names, locations and even outstanding dishes to try at the venue. Share what you love about each location by recording a voiceover for an authentic video touch.   

17. Valentine's Day nail art video tutorial

Inspire TikTok with your unique nail art ideas. Manicure and themed nail art tutorials are extremely popular with TikTok users who love recreating them with their own twist. If you have a design in mind, create a video tutorial and share it with tags like 'Valentine's nails' and 'nail vlog'. Don't forget to use transitions to enhance your before and after when you do the big reveal.

18. Valentine’s Day DIY YouTube tutorials 

Become the best Valentine ever by creating a handmade gift for your date. If you're making something thoughtful and customized for your special person, share it with a step-by-step video to inspire others on YouTube Shorts and Pinterest. Use light ambient background music and clear text instructions to help viewers focus on the steps.  

19. Valentine’s Day couples challenges

Join a TikTok trend, or post your very own challenge video on YouTube to entertain your subscribers. Think dance challenges, cooking challenges as well as question and answer challenges as good YouTube video ideas for Valentine’s Day. Record your couple's trivia video and showcase the clips side-by-side. Add stickers and GIFs to add to the humor of the responses.

20. “I love you” stock video 

If you’re not an experienced video editor or running short of time, don’t overthink it. Sometimes a simple “I love you” video is the perfect Valentine’s Day gift. Browse our content library to find an animated video background that you like, add some music and save and share. Find more video stock here.

Hope these ideas have inspired you to get started with the Valentine’s Day video maker. Continue learning how to enhance your videos like editing with video filters and how to add emojis to videos

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