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“Get it in writing.” This is a credo to live by, and Docracy helped lovers everywhere do just this in its Be My Valentine (Legally Binding) agreement, first posted in 2012.

This year they have produced the equally helpful Romantic Valentine’s Day Memorandum of Understanding, whose second article states: “Should said reservations fall short of invited party’s expectations, invited party shall not declare the evening to be instantly and indelibly ‘ruined’. Such short-comings could include (but are not limited to): (a) The time of the reservation being cartoonishly divorced from the generally accepted dining hour, (b) The restaurant not being even generously describable as in any way ‘romantic’, (c) The parties finding themselves seated at a ‘family-style’ eight-person table with strangers.”