How to Write a Love Letter

How To Write A Love Letter - 13 Tips

Here are 13 Ideas for composing the perfect love letter:

1. Presentation

A love letter is an extremely personal keepsake that your love will read and reread many times. It’s a treasure that will be kept in a safe place.

A treasure like this deserves nice paper or stationary.

Be sure to use blue or black ink not red or some odd color. And certainly don’t use pencil!

Hand written is always better.

Date your letter with day, month, and year.

2. Be Specific

Your love letter is declaration of your feelings to another person.

That person is unique and your letter should be unique in describing them and how you feel.

3. Use Good Descriptions

Think of the last time you saw your love and how it made you feel.

Describe it, especially how intoxicating it was and how you coundn’t think/focus on anything else.

When describing things make sure you use all 5 senses: taste, touch, smell, sound sight.

Touch: The feel of your touch/hands/fingers/hair
Smell: The smell of your hair/skin/breath
Sight: The look in your eyes…The sight of your smile/face/eyes/you
Sound: The sound of your voice/song/words
Taste: The taste of your…

4. Be Specific About Appearance

In your letter be sure to include things you love about their appearance.

People are self conscious about how they look and so this is a great way make your love feel loved.

What is it about how they look that you love?

Is it … How they smile?

… How they walk/dance?

… The sparkle in their eyes?

… The way their hair falls?

… The shape of their body?

… The shape or movement of their lips?

5. Eyes

It’s been said that the eyes are windows to the soul.

What color are you love’s eyes?

When was the last time you saw them sparkle?

In your love letter talk about their eyes and how they sparkle.

Every person’s eyes are unique so be specific in your descriptions.

6. Mannerisms

Every person has certain quirks, mannerisms, and unique ways of doing things.

What are your favorite little things they do?

Write about them.

7. Inside Jokes

Are there some funny jokes or things that you and your love have shared?

Including these things is a great way to tie the two of you together in your love’s mind.

8. How long do want them to stay?

How long do you want to love to stay with you?

Forever is a good answer but not very descriptive. To the end of eternity is better. Be creative.

Conversly, how much time away from your love is too much?

9. What would you do for them?

What would you do for your love?

Be creative here! The more extreme the better.

Example:

I would swim through shark infested waters just to bring you lemonade.

10. Recall the first time you saw them

When you first saw your love what did you think and feel?

Be descriptive.

11. Great Love Quotes

Sometimes it is good to add a love quote to your love letter.

Just remember to only use 1 or 2.

The vast majority of your letter should be your own words.

Here are a few a love quotes:

“I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.”

- Pietro Aretino

“Incredibly, inordinately, devastatingly, immortally, calamitously, hearteningly, adorably beautiful.”

- Rupert Brooke

“I will have to tell you: you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on. ”

- Pride & Prejudice (2005)

12. Use Great Love Words

The word ‘love’ can become overused and lose some of its power if it’s used too often.

Try using some of these great love words:

Adore - to love intensely

Synonyms: admire, be crazy about, be gone on, be mad for, be nuts about, be serious about, be smitten with, be stuck on, be sweet on, be wild about, cherish, delight in, dig*, dote on, esteem, exalt, fall for, flip over, glorify, go for*, honor, idolize, prize, revere, reverence, treasure, venerate, worship

Cherish - care about deeply

Synonyms: admire, adore, appreciate, apprize, care for, clasp, cleave to, cling to, coddle, comfort, cosset, cultivate, defend, dote on, embrace, encourage, enshrine, entertain, fancy, fondle, foster, guard, harbor, hold dear, hold in high esteem, honor, hug, idolize, like, love, nourish, nurse, nurture, pet, preserve, prize, revere, reverence, safeguard, shelter, shield, support, sustain, treasure, value, venerate, worship

Enamour - to fascinate, captivate

Synonyms: attract, bewitch, charm, enchant, endear, enrapture, enthrall, entice, entrance, fall in love with, grab, infatuate, make hit with, please, slay*, sweep off feet, turn on*

Bewitch - to charm

Synonyms: allure, attract, bedevil, beguile, captivate, capture, control, dazzle, draw, enchant, enrapture, enthrall, entrance, fascinate, hex, hypnotize, knock dead, knock out, put horns on, put the whammy on, put under magic spell, send*, slay*, spell*, spellbind, sweep off one’s feet, take, tickle*, tickle pink, tickle to death, trick, turn on*, vamp, voodoo, wile, wow*

Enchant - to delight, mesmerize

Synonyms: allure, beguile, bewitch, captivate, carry away*, cast a spell on, charm, delectate, draw, enamor, enrapture, ensorcell, enthrall, entice, entrance, fascinate, grab, gratify, hex, hypnotize, kill*, knock dead, magnetize, make a hit with, make happy, please, send*, slay*, spell, spellbind, sweep off feet, take, thrill, turn on*, voodoo*, wile, wow*

Other great words:

angel, angelic, lover, giving, alluring, tempting, sensual, sensuality, seeing, tasting, touching, holding, caressing, memories, memorable, darling, gorgeous, absence, velvet, voyage, beautiful, vision, elation, blossoms, happy, kisses, innocent, passion, dreaming, delirious, temptation, complete, desire, content, embrace, rainbow, rose, adoring, stars, privileged, heart.