Pakistani vendors sell heart-shaped balloons on Valentines Day in Karachi, Feb. 14, 2007. A number of shopping centers in Pakistan are full of gifts including cards, stuffed toys, chocolates and miscellaneous items for the holiday. Valentine's Day, which is named after a Christian patron saint for lovers, has gained popularity in Muslim-dominated Pakistan over the past few years.
Rajiv Agrawalh picks-out some flowers at the Downtown Flower Mart in Los Angeles Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2007, to give his wife on Valentine's Day.
Valentine's Day hearts line a storefront in Montpelier, Vt., Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2007 as a customer jumps over accumulated snow. Once again, the downtown of Montpelier is covered in red hearts. For the past several years - sometime during the night before Valentine's Day - someone or several people have plastered storefronts throughout the downtown area with red hearts on white paper.
Chinese couples kiss during a kissing contest on Valentine's Day in Chengdu, in China's southwestern Sichuan province Wednesday Feb. 14, 2007. The western holiday is catching on in parts of China, with florists keen to promote it as a way of boosting flower sales.
A snow plow makes its way past a Valentine's Day display outside a flower shop in North Andover, Mass., Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2007.
Boys write a message with red colored powder on snow to mark Valentine's Day in Shimla, India, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2007.
Two flamingos form a heart as they pass by each other at the Stone Zoo in Stoneham, Mass., on Feb. 13, 2007.
A freshly postmarked Valentine's Day stamp is shown with the local cancellation in Fidelity, Ill., on Monday, Feb. 5, 2007. Postmaster Peggy Ruyle says she receives hundreds of requests from around the globe each year from people who want the Fidelity postmark on their Valentine mailings.
An Iraqi Army soldier enjoys a Valentine's Day lollipop before setting out on a foot patrol with the U.S. Army near Youssifiyah, 12 miles south of Baghdad, on Feb. 7, 2007.
A customer selects roses at a flower shop in Chongqing Municipality, China, on Feb. 13, 2007. As the Valentine's Day festival draws near, sales of flowers are booming and businessmen are making promotions focused on the day.
A canine bride and groom wait under an alter in Hong Kong on Feb. 13, 2007. The dogs, dressed in the traditional tuxedo and bridal gown, were participants in a mass wedding ceremony.
Heart-shaped chocolates are sold for Valentine's Day in Rome on Feb. 13, 2007. The custom of exchanging cards and other tokens of love on Feb. 14 began to develop in England and France in the 14th and 15th centuries and became especially popular in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Decisions, decisions. Annette Whaley mulls over her Valentine's Day gift options for husband, John, on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2007, at Regina's Candies in St. Paul, Minn. Whaley said she ended up choosing a small heart filled with peanut brittle, her husband's favorite. The couple has been married 29 years.
NASCAR driver Carl Edwards and California Speedway President Gillian Zucker offer a piece of candy to three-year-old Amanda Mooney of Alta Loma, Calif. at the California Speedway in Fontana, Calif. Feb. 12, 2007, where Edwards appeared to sweeten ticket purchases by race fans for the upcoming NASCAR Nextel Cup Race Series February 23-25 at the speedway.