MMORPG.com World of Warcraft Correspondent Deborah Deitrich writes this look at WoW's upcoing Valentine's Day Event.

Hello young lovers, wherever you are. Your holiday event is upon us. Beginning at 6 AM on Wednesday, February 11 and continuing until 6 AM on Monday, February 16 is World of Warcraft's "Love is in the Air" event. This is a short event; only 5 days in length, so those who want to complete the Fool for Love achievement associated with this event can't dawdle. Due to its abbreviated timeframe and the fact that this event occurs during a 3-day holiday weekend when some of those young lovers and not-so-young lovers may be leaving for a romantic getaway, this could be the event that is the spoiler for many who were hoping to attain the "What a Long Strange Trip It's Been" achievement within a one year time frame. Well, real life trumps the virtual. I know I'll be away with my sweetie for most of that time.

"Love is in the Air" is one of the events required to complete the "What a Long Strange Trip It's Been" and the payoff for that achievement is a Violet Proto-Drake, a super fast mount. If you haven't been paying attention to the event achievements, maybe this is the time to start. It will take an entire year to get them all done, if you're lucky. If you're not lucky, there's always next year.

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Sweet! Thank you for the extremely timely help.

Isn't the roach vendor in Undercity, not in Orgrimar?

Argghhh!!  You're right.  The snake vendor is in Org, the cockroach vendor is in Undercity.  My bad.

My mis-identification  of the location of the cockroach vendor has been corrected and I'd like to add an addendum or two.

A friend pointed out that I had missed an important part of the Love is in the Air event. In addition to receiving Gifts of Adoration for Love Tokens, players can give Love Tokens to npcs when they have the Adored debuff and receive Gifts of Friendship. Guards will give Gifts of Friendships that contain cards or pledges for their city. Other npcs give the gift which is appropriate for their city: a pie for Orgrimmar, flowers for Thunder Bluff and a romantic poem for the Undercity. When you have 5 of a given item, you can right click and condense it into a package. When you have a package of cards, pledges and items for your city, you can right click one of the items and it will make a gift collection for that city. When you have a Gift Collection for Orgrimmar, Thunder Bluff and the Undercity, right click on one of the collections and you will receive a Horde Gift Collection. This can be turned into Peddlefeet who is located near the leader of each Old World city. The turn-in counts as a vote for that city's leader and gives a buff. 

More importantly, you will receive a box of chocolates and can choose to get either 5 Handfuls of Rose Petals, 5 Love Rockets or 5 Silver shafted arrows. As these components are used in many of the holiday's achievements, it can make it easier to complete the achievements required to become a Love Fool, by finishing the Fool for Love achievement.  The same applys for Alliance with the cards, pledges and items for their major cities.

This just in from Blizzard, developer post from the forums:

"Kisirani
Blizzard Poster 338. Re: Bag of Candies, ACT 2! 02/13/2009 10:27:30 AM PST
The Bag of Candies had a fairly reasonable drop rate and was in no way bugged; however, due to the random aspect of the achievement, we discussed it and did hotfix an increase in last night. While I'm aware that some of you dislike the chance aspect of this achievement, it will remain in the meta.

And just to dispel all the superstition around it, no NPC has a greater chance of giving out candies. They're all equal. "

Folks have been complaining vociferously on the forums how difficult the Be Mine! achievement was.  Given the fickle nature of the RNG gods and the brevity of the event, this achievement looked to be the meta achievement killer for "What a Long Strange Trip It's Been."  My main is now sporting her Love Fool title.  WOOT!!