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The Best Personalized Valentine's Day Gifts, From Jewelry to Engraved Steak

Show your boo you’ve been paying attention with personalized albums, donuts, board games, sex toys, and more for Valentine’s Day.
The 15 Best Personalized Gifts for Valentine’s Day

What’s better than a donut on Valentine’s Day? Eight donuts that spell out “I love you,” placed on a Swarovski-studded platter and served to your boo after she’s scarfed down a tomahawk steak with the words “MARRY ME, BRENDA??” engraved into the side. Customization has come a long way since the Gutenberg Bible, baby, and there’s no better time to take advantage of humanity’s inanso ability to individualize absolutely everything than with personalized Valentine’s Day gifts. 

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The best personalized Valentine’s Day gifts run the gamut from custom board games and classy photo albums (never not in style), to jewelry that is sweet—but not tacky—and cookware that comes with a personal touch. We’ve found personalized sex toys for spicing things up on those black silk sheets, custom-painted leather jackets, Carhartt tool bags, and so many other ways of saying I <3 YOU.  

Photo albums will always slap

Nothing shows how much you’ve been clocking the important moments with your Valentine quite like a beautiful, tangible collection of curated pictures in a linen-covered photo album with up to 50 pages for your cherished memories.


$62 at Artifact Uprising

$62 at Artifact Uprising

Say “I love you” with steak

You can’t beat this meat, baby. Pat LaFrieda Meat Purveyors are third-generation meat slingers from New Jersey, and they’ve got a 40-ounce tomahawk steak with your lover’s name on it. 


$172.10 at Pat LaFrieda

$172.10 at Pat LaFrieda

They’re the Homer to your Marge

Angel Food Bakery is one of Minneapolis’ best bakeries, and beloved for its personalized, custom-message donuts and its iconic Bourbon Caramel Donut Bread Pudding.


$89.95 at Goldbelly

$89.95 at Goldbelly

For the couple that loves board games

A personalized four-across game to commemorate whatever anniversary is dearest to your heart, from the first time you kissed to that time your partner fought a swole kangaroo at that open air animal park. 


$85 at Uncommon Goods

$85 at Uncommon Goods
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A personalized notebook

Is your SO an aspiring poet? A writer of limericks, sketch artist, or a hard-to-shop-for Virgo who’s obsessed with making lists? If so, they’ll appreciate a personalized journal and cool planner for keeping their flashes of genius—or at least their grocery list—organized.


$30 at Papier

$30 at Papier

They’re kind of a tool bag, but they’re your tool bag

Embroider this Carhartt tool bag with any two-line personalization you want, so everyone else on the job site will know that they’re DADDI’S KINKEE BB. 


$149.99$104.99 at Personalization Mall

$149.99$104.99 at Personalization Mall

‘Til plug do us part

What better way to pop the question than with a personalized sex toy? This silver anal plug comes as a cute ring, and in a very accessible size for butt stuff beginners and ~seasoned~ players alike.  


$20$16 at Etsy

$20$16 at Etsy

They’re your ride-or-die

“See? I love you more than my Camel Crushes, baby. It says so on this jacket.”


$450 at Etsy

$450 at Etsy

The best personalized gift for chefs

Whether they’re a legit chef or just someone who likes to garnish everything with Maldon salt and a sprig of something green, your food-loving boo will appreciate a personalized cast iron skillet from Smithey Ironware, who make some of the best cast iron skillets out there.  


$100 at Smithey Ironware Co.

$100 at Smithey Ironware Co.
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Sock it to them

Yes, it really is as easy as uploading a picture of your face onto socks. You’ll be that much closer to their feet, which is always your goal as their sole discerning lover. 


$13.99 at Amazon

$13.99 at Amazon

A cardboard cutout of your face 

Your love will arrive home after an exhausting day at work, and from the corner of their eye they see your shining face—somehow, even though you live 400 miles away—in the form of a cutout peering out from behind the bed. Romance ain’t dead, even if Ben Affleck did act TRÈS rude to that lifesize cutout of Ana de Armas. 


$7$6.30 at Etsy

$7$6.30 at Etsy

Of course personalized underwear

There’s nothing remotely more romantic than having your face on your partner’s junk.


$12.99 at Amazon

$12.99 at Amazon

You can’t go wrong

When all else fails, you can just take the classic route with flowers. But, these have the potential to last at least a year (!).


$82 at Venus Et Fleur

$82 at Venus Et Fleur

A personalized necklace for your hot stallion

Commemorate the date you and your boo got together with an engraved necklace. They’ll be so thrilled you can surely expect sexy time afterwards.


$21.99 at Amazon

$21.99 at Amazon

Wishing you and yours a tasty, romantic, pleather-filled V-Day. 


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