Couples Bucket List: 116 Unique Ideas To Make Lasting Memories

Shared experiences bring couples closer, build trust, and strengthen the relationship. There are many things you can do together to make life enjoyable and a bucket list helps plan them better.

As someone who has been in a relationship for prolonged time, we have created bucket lists for various aspects such as Christmas, Travel, Finance, etc. It is a sheer delight to tick off something that we had planned for months.

So, why not create your own couple’s bucket list and start making unforgettable memories?

116 Unique Bucket List Ideas for Couples

The ideas below cover various categories and goals you might want to plan with your special one!

Explore the lists, jot down what you like, add your own desires for a shared future, and start working together to make those dreams a reality!

Christmas Bucket List

As Christmas approaches, let’s start with its ideas first:

1. Throw a Christmas party for friends and family
2. Dress up as Santa and his assistant and help the local charity
3. Decorate a Christmas tree with all your favorite trinkets
4. Bake boxes of gingerbread men and give it to your loved ones
5. Prepare your own Christmas-themed season’s greeting cards
6. Plan out a Christmas-themed movie marathon
7. Take a romantic Christmas Eve ride down the town to enjoy the lights and the festive vibe
8. Attend the midnight mass together on Christmas Eve
9. Plan a Christmas vacation getaway
10. Prepare milk and cookies for Santa, bake the cookies yourself 
11. Prepare a Christmas-themed jazz playlist
12. Hand out Christmas gifts at an orphanage
13. Create a Christmas-special cocktail
14. Attend a choir at a nearby church/auditorium
15. Create a ‘Christmas care box’ and gift it to each other
16. Engage in adult couple games and make your Christmas night memorable

Winter Bucket List

1. Go shopping for new winter clothes together
2. Make snow angels while holding hands together
3. Make a snowman for your front yard
4. Have a friendly snowball fight with another couple
5. Knit a sweater together for your loved ones
6. Try your hand at skiing
7. Set up warm indoor lights together to reflect the wintery mood
8. Try out ice skating
9. Take a trip to a warmer country
10. Look up new soup recipes and prepare one together
11. Prepare a hot toddy together and invite friends for a get-together with drinks
12. Go on a snowy winter hike together
13. Light up the fireplace – pick your own wood and light it up together
14. Check out nearby ice sculptures, or buy one of your own
15. Create a fort out of pillows and blankets, just for the two of you

Travel & Trips Bucket List

1. Go on a wine-tasting tour in an Italian vineyard
2. Play with the turtles in the Galapagos Islands
3. Take a desert Safari in the Sahara desert
4. Attend a fashion event in Milan
5. Take a luxury train ride in India
6. Check out the aurora borealis (Northern Lights)
7. Visit the seven wonders of the world together
8. Attend the Day of the Dead festival in Mexico
9. Attend a musical concert overseas
10. Volunteer to help patients and children in Northern Africa
11. Take a cross-country road trip together and enjoy playing road trip games as you go
12. Go kayaking in the Alaskan Fjords
13. Go to Disneyland together
14. Take a trip on a luxury cruise ship
15. Book a private jet once

Sex Bucket List

1. Try a threesome with a partner of mutual choice
2. Have sex on the beach
3. Go out to work while having a butt plug inserted
4. Set up a camera and record ourselves having sex
5. Try out a strap-on
6. Perform random positions generated by a sex games app
7. Get invited to an Eyes Wide Shut-styled orgy party
8. Make out in a public place
9. Try out an all-leather dress in the bedroom
10. Use sex toys on each other
11. Write and dedicate an erotica piece to each other
12. Have sex on an aeroplane (the mile-high club!)
13. Try out a CNC roleplay
14. Have sex while we are stoned
15. Have sex at a friend/colleague’s house

Summer Bucket List

1. Throw a pool party and invite friends and family
2. Get tanned at a nearby beach
3. Go on a beach crawl – visit as many nearby beaches as you can!
4. Go to a nearby mountain town for trekking in a cooler climate
5. Try making your ice cream flavor at home
6. Attend a sunset safari together
7. Go to a beer-tasting event
8. Have a water-balloon throwing event, invite some friends over as well
9. Rent a boat and go sailing
10. Join a swimming club together
11. Try scuba diving and snorkeling together
12. Join a beach cleanup event
13. Plan out a water park date
14. Take a jet-ski together
15. Go swimming in a nearby lake

Fall Bucket List

1. Plan a Halloween party for friends and family
2. Carve pumpkins together and decorate the front yard
3. Go hiking on a nearby trail and witness the leaves changing colors
4. Go to a nearby orchard or farm for Apple picking
5. Prepare mulled wine using freshly picked Apples
6. Bake Apple pies together
7. Create an invite list and menu for your Thanksgiving dinner
8. Attend a fall festival together in a nearby city
9. As the leaves fall, plan a picnic with your partner – just the two of you
10. Attend Oktoberfest together and try out different beers
11. Join a candle-making workshop and make wax candles together
12. Set up a scarecrow for your front yard
13. Volunteer for an autumn harvest charity event and help your local farmers
14. Rent a houseboat and go on a fishing weekend with your partner
15. Attend a cider-tasting event together
    

Financial Bucket List

1. Create a marriage fund for your upcoming wedding
2. Start saving for a house together
3. Jointly invest in a startup
4. Buy a car together
5. Prepare a FIRE plan to retire early together
6. Save for a big international vacation every year
7. Donate to a charity together

Experiences Bucket List

1. Plan on a stargazing event where you and your partner can see the Milky Way
2. Take a hot air balloon ride together
3. Complete a trek ranked ‘difficult’ together
4. Attend couples’ mental health therapy events together
5. Take a private helicopter ride over the Grand Canyon
6. Plan on a cross-country concert trip, stopping at various cities for music concerts

Life Goals List

1. Own a house together
2. Go for a luxury vacation every year
3. Start a garage rock band with musician friends
4. Adopt a pet dog together
5. Learn how to surf together
6. Start a side hustle which eventually becomes the main occupation for both of you

Culinary Bucket List

1. Learn how to make your own Sushi
2. Attend a Pasta making class in Italy 
3. Visit Switzerland to try the cheese fondue in its original form
4. Learn how to bake French pastries at home and set up a baking unit in the kitchen
5. Learn how to homebrew your own beer
6. Collect exotic coffee beans from all over the world

Final Thoughts!

Bucket lists are an extension of who you are as a person and what you are as a couple. They represent the thoughts, ideas, and ambitions of both partners.

When making a bucket list for things to do as a couple, make sure that it includes ideas from both of you and that one partner does not dominate the list so that both of you are equally represented.