New Year's Eve dating do's and don'ts

If you've chosen New Year's Eve as the evening for a first or early date, then we salute you. It's a left field choice, verging on the strange, because, as we're all well aware, New Year's Eve is a night unlike any other. People do things they wouldn't usually do on New Year's Eve; they go to giant superclubs, lose all their friends and find themselves hugging a toilet attendant at the stroke of midnight; they rent cottages out in the sticks and spend the evening teetering around drunk whilst brandishing candles or breaking their ankles in peat bogs; they develop an inexplicable desire to go to a ceilidh even though they know it's just country dancing lubricated with copious amounts of beer. Anyway, you get the picture. 

So, brave dating souls, to help you and your date make it through the evening in one piece, here are a few do's and don'ts.

DO:

Research! On New Year's Eve everything is ticketed, from Edinburgh's Hogmonay down to your local pub. Make sure you can get in where you want to go because a night spent traipsing round trying to sweet talk door staff does not a great date make.

Be prepared to do something different. Seeing as a lot of your usual venues will be booked up or sold out you may well find yourself at the aforementioned superclub or ceildih. Why not try something you'd never usually do? Ready yourself to go with the flow and you'll probably have a lot of fun.

Dress warmly. That strappy dress/stylish t-shirt might look mighty sexy on the dancefloor but you'll be feeling the chill if you end up outdoors watching fireworks/stealing the Christmas decorations from the municipal clock/eating a kebab. Take a coat and a brolly.

DON'T:

Expect too much. New Year's Eve has a habit of not living up to our expectations at the best of times, so try not to pile even more pressure on your date by expecting it to be the BEST ONE EVER! Relax, have a giggle and remember that their are 364 other evenings in the year which could be as much, if not more, fun.

Obsess over the midnight kiss. Whilst the chimes of midnight might give you a sneaky advantage when it comes to getting a kiss in, it might also feel like the end of the world if you've been building up to it all evening and it doesn't happen. People often don't kiss on the first date and, just because it's New Year's Eve, you don't have to either. If it happens, great; if not, don't worry. 

Be afraid to be dull. Just because everybody else is (in your imagination) out drinking White Russians from diamond slippers and dancing with models in VIP lounges papered with dollar bills, it doesn't mean you have to. Why not go to the cinema or pop down your local Indian? It'll be quiet, you can get to know each other and celebrate with a modest chink of glasses at midnight. Plus, you get to start the year smug and hangover-free!

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