National Couple’s Day is the perfect excuse to make your long-distance relationship feel a little less… well, long-distance.
You don’t need to be in the same room, book an expensive trip, or send a huge gift. Sometimes the best way to celebrate is simply finding something that helps you slow down, spend quality time together, and feel a little more connected. 
Whether you want something romantic, sentimental, cozy, or just fun, here are 15 National Couple’s Day ideas you can do together from anywhere.
And this year, we have something extra special to celebrate too.
In honor of National Couple’s Day, we’re officially launching our NEW Multiplayer Love Puzzle. It’s an upgrade from our Custom Love Puzzle because instead of being a virtual gift for your partner to solve on their own, this version turns your favorite photo into a game you can play together in real time.
Along with our new puzzle, we’re sharing plenty of other romantic and fun date ideas you can try together to make National Couple’s Day feel a little more special, even from miles apart.
1. Try Our NEW Multiplayer Love Puzzle
With our new Multiplayer Love Puzzle, you can turn one of your favorite photos together into a virtual puzzle that you and your partner solve simultaneously. Upload a photo that means something to you both, whether it’s from your first date, your last visit, a favorite trip, or just a photo you both love.
One person creates a private puzzle room and sends the room code to their partner. Once you’re both inside, you can work on the same puzzle together in real time.
You can choose between:
- 3×3
- 4×4
- 6×6
- 8×8
There’s also a timer, hint feature, and sounds to make it even more interactive.
Instead of simply sending your partner a favorite memory, you get to build it together.
Try our NEW Multiplayer Love Puzzle for National Couple’s Day.
2. Have a Virtual Picnic Date
Just because you can’t sit on the same picnic blanket doesn’t mean you can’t have a picnic together.
Pick a park, beach, balcony, backyard, or even your living room and create your own little picnic setup in both locations.
Bring your favorite snacks, lay out a blanket, pour something to drink, and call each other while you eat.
You can even play the same playlist in the background so your two completely different locations feel a little more connected.
And yes, this is your excuse to make the setup unnecessarily cute.
Plan your Virtual Picnic Date.
3. Write Future Love Letters to Each Other
This might be one of the sweetest dates on the list.
Write letters to each other that won’t be delivered until sometime in the future.
You could choose your next anniversary, six months from now, one year from now, your next National Couple’s Day, or even after you finally close the distance.
Write about what you love about them right now, your favorite memories, what this stage of your relationship has taught you, and what you hope your lives look like by the time they read it.
Then schedule the letters and forget about them until one unexpectedly arrives in your inbox months or years from now. 
Create your Future Letters Date.
5. Have a Blindfolded Dinner Date
Turn dinner into something a little more playful and intimate with a Blindfolded Dinner Date.
Prepare or order a meal without telling your partner what you’re having. Then, once you’re both on a video call, put on a blindfold and start eating.
Without being able to see your food, you’ll have to rely on taste, smell, and texture instead. Describe each bite to your partner without saying exactly what you’re eating, and listen as they do the same with their meal.
It’s a fun way to slow down, pay attention to your senses, and share a different kind of dinner date together.
Try our Blindfolded Dinner Date for National Couple’s Day.
6. Have a Romantic Virtual Spa Night
If your ideal date involves doing absolutely nothing stressful, this one’s for you.
Get some face masks, skincare products, comfy clothes, candles, and your favorite drinks and turn your rooms into little spas.
Hop on a video call and do your routines together while you talk, listen to music, or simply relax.
Not every romantic date has to involve a huge activity. Sometimes spending a quiet evening together is exactly what you need.
Try our Virtual Spa Date.
7. Create Your Couple’s Bucket List
What are all the things you want to experience together someday?
National Couple’s Day is the perfect opportunity to start making that list.
Think about places you want to travel together, foods you want to try, concerts you want to attend, dates you want to go on, things you want to do during your next visit, and even completely ridiculous things you’ve always talked about doing. 
You might end up with a list of 10 things.
You might end up with 100.
Either way, you’ll finish the date with a lot more things to look forward to together.
Create a Bucket List Together.
8. Hues and Cues
Okay, we’ve been romantic long enough. Time for a little competition.
Play Hues and Cues together and see how well you can describe colors to each other using only clues.
It sounds easy until you’re trying to explain the exact shade of blue you have in mind while your partner confidently chooses something completely different.
“How did you NOT know I meant this blue?!”
Play Hues and Cues.
9. Create a Vision Board for Your Future Together
Where do you picture yourselves a few years from now?
Maybe you’re living in the same city.
Maybe you’re planning your dream apartment.
Maybe you’re traveling.
Maybe there’s a dog involved. Or five.
Create a shared vision board filled with places you want to visit, things you want to experience, relationship milestones, future home inspiration, date ideas, and anything else you’re excited to eventually experience together.
It’s a cute way to turn “someday” conversations into something you can actually see.
Have a Vision Board Date.
10. Have a Cozy Movie Night
Sometimes you don’t need an elaborate date.
You just want snacks, your favorite person, and a movie.
Pick something romantic, funny, nostalgic, or completely terrible and start it at the same time while you’re on a call.
And if choosing the movie normally takes longer than actually watching it, let Netflix Roulette choose for you.
Try Netflix Roulette.
You can also check out our Long Distance Movie Date Ideas for more ways to make your virtual movie night feel like an actual date.
11. Go on a Color Hunt Together
If you want something easy that still helps you feel connected throughout the day, try a Color Hunt Date.
Choose a color together, then spend the next few days looking for things that match it in your own surroundings. Take photos whenever you spot something, whether it’s a flower, a building, food, clothing, or something completely random.
At the end of your chosen time frame, send your full photo collections to each other and compare what you found.
It’s especially cute for couples in different countries or time zones because you get a little glimpse into each other’s everyday surroundings without needing to be on a video call.
Try the Color Hunt Date.
12. Have a BuzzFeed Quiz Party
Sometimes the best dates are the ones where you don’t take anything seriously.
Pick a few ridiculous BuzzFeed quizzes, answer them together, and compare your results. You might learn something about each other—or just discover which kitchen appliance you’re apparently most like. 
Turn it into a date with our BuzzFeed Quiz Party.
13. Let Conversation Starter Roulette Pick the Questions
If you’ve been together for a while, you’ve probably already asked each other the usual questions approximately 400 times.
So let a random wheel choose what you talk about instead.
Some questions might get you laughing, while others could lead to a surprisingly deep conversation.
Give Conversation Starter Roulette a spin.
14. Play a Quick Game Together
If you want something competitive, keep it simple.
You can play a quick game like Rock, Paper, Scissors and add your own silly rules—winner picks the next question, chooses the next activity, or gets to give the loser a challenge.
15. Plan Your Dream Trip Together
Pick somewhere you’ve always talked about visiting together and pretend you’re actually planning the trip.
Look at hotels, restaurants, tourist attractions, beaches, cafés, local food, and activities you’d want to do together.
You don’t even have to be seriously planning to book it yet.
The whole point is imagining yourselves there together.
And who knows? Your pretend National Couple’s Day vacation might eventually become a real one.
Start with our Virtual Travel Date.
Make National Couple’s Day More Than Just One Day
National Couple’s Day is a cute excuse to celebrate your relationship, but you don’t have to stop once August 18 is over.
One of the hardest parts of a long-distance relationship is that it’s easy for calls to become routine.
“How was your day?”
“Good. Yours?”
“Good.”
And suddenly you’ve had basically the same conversation four nights in a row.
That’s why finding little ways to experience things together matters.
If you want more ideas for keeping your relationship exciting when you’re miles apart, check out our guide on How to Keep a Long Distance Relationship Fun and Exciting.
And if you want to make the day even more special with a little surprise, we’ve got ideas for that too. 
Check out our Surprise Ideas for Long Distance Relationships.
Because honestly, you don’t need a special day to remind your partner that you’re thinking about them.
But if you get one?
Might as well make it a really good one.
