Introduction

Two weeks after my wife and I married we both started graduate school. We had just spent most of our savings on a wedding and were now prepared to face large tuition bills and spend full-time hours on homework and projects. This put a big hit to our date night budget - and by big hit I mean we had practically no extra money to spend on going out. Although this type of situation can be really stressful, learning to be creative and coming up with date ideas that were cheap or free ended up being pretty romantic. It offered a new challenge to get creative and reinforced in us that being together is what really mattered. There are so many free things to see and do and endless options to create new ideas.