9 Valentine’s Day card ideas and memes that every Iowan in your life will love

Be mine? Boring. Happy Valentine’s Day? Generic. You’re in every CORNer of my heart? Now we’re talking.

Spice up your Valentine’s Day cards and phrases this year that every Iowan in your life is sure to love, or at least roll their eye at.

Here are nine Valentine’s Day sayings that the Des Moines Register staff thought up so that you could make the people you love smile.

You’re the (Iowa State) fairest of them all

Thrill Ville is seen from atop the Ferris Wheel during day seven of the Iowa State Fair on Wednesday, August 16, 2023 in Des Moines.

− Paris Barraza, trending and general assignment reporter

You’re Des best thing that’s ever been Moines

The Des Moines skyline is seen in the evening on Thursday, November 30, 2023.

− Victoria Reyna-Rodriguez, general assignment reporter

You’ve already defrosted my heart. Would you help me defrost my car’s windshield this Valentine’s Day?

Cars are snowed in on the Court Avenue bridge in Des Moines on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022, after a winter storm dumped several inches of snow across central Iowa.

− Paris Barraza, trending and general assignment reporter

Word of the day: Iowa. IOWanna take you out to dinner.

A table set with romantic decorations for a Valentine’s Day dinner.

− Nixson Benítez, social media producer

Algona always love ya!

Mike Seager of Team Roadshow juggles fire in downtown Algona during RAGBRAI on Monday, July 24, 2017.

− Paris Barraza, trending and general assignment reporter

My heart speeds up every time you RAGBRAI across me

Cyclists make their way to Pocahontas from Schaller during the second day of RAGBRAI Monday, July 25, 2022.

− Nixson Benítez, social media producer

I’ll love you at 80 and 35 and it will never (inter)change

− Paris Barraza, trending and general assignment reporter and Nixson Benítez, social media producer

What if we kissed at the Pappajohn Sculpture Park?

Drew Dau aerial photo of the Pappajohn Sculpture Park in downtown Des Moines.

− Paris Barraza, trending and general assignment reporter and Victoria Reyna-Rodriguez, general assignment reporter

Customer: What’s your policy for stealing? Cashier: You could go to jail. Customer: ‘Cause IOWanna steal your heart.

Prison bars

− Nixson Benítez, social media producer

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