It's the season of love, the time to show your special someone how you feel. You and your love might look to enjoy a taste of Italy, whose people are arguably the world’s romance and culinary pros. Should you empty your pockets on fancy pasta dishes in Lady and the Tramp style: candlelight and live musical accompaniment? Rather, do you get creative and devise an inexpensive alternative? Which is also Lady and the Tramp swag. (They ate for free in front of a dumpster.)

Tired of wearing the same grubby clothes that your closet offered last season... and the one before that? Most of us can agree that hipster-wear has to go and that the rest of your wardrobe could use an update. Here are a few ways to revamp it, whether you’re on a tight college budget or have extra bucks to burn.

Annette Hoover, a USC grad and owner of the event planning business, Eventus, is the mastermind behind HRTM 362: Wedding Planning and Management. Each year, her class selects one lucky couple for whom they plan a dream wedding, free of charge. Her seven years of experience consoling bridezillas, supporting students’ dreams and creating happily-ever-afters keeps Gamecock romance in the air.

In 2010, Amy Woodell, a fourth-year retail and fashion merchandising student, returned from a summer mission trip in a slum of Lusaka, Zambia, which changed the course of her life. The Cary, NC native had long dreamed of a fast-paced life in the New York City fashion industry, but the widows and children she met at an orphanage began to consume her thoughts.