{"id":5855,"date":"2025-09-22T09:28:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T09:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/?p=5855"},"modified":"2025-09-22T09:28:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T09:28:47","slug":"best-kisses-in-celebration-of-international-kiss-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/22\/best-kisses-in-celebration-of-international-kiss-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Kisses In Celebration of International Kiss Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some of the best kisses around.<\/p><div id=\"vanes-44414783\" class=\"vanes-content vanes-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-top: 2px;margin-right: 2px;margin-bottom: 2px;margin-left: 2px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/fireswordandsea.htm\" aria-label=\"Fire Sword &amp; Sea\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?fit=1706%2C2560&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Fire Sword &amp; Sea\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?w=1706&ssl=1 1706w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?resize=200%2C300&ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C1536&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?resize=1365%2C2048&ssl=1 1365w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?w=1280&ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" width=\"569\" height=\"853\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>#InternationalKissingDay&nbsp; Well let&#8217;s start with one of my favorite International Kissers. #RemingtonSteele The look, the motion, the follow through. Sigh.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanessariley.com\/gotool\/image\/data\/RemingtonSteele.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 390px;\"><\/p>\n<p>Ok, you know we were waiting for this one, Mark and Bridgette. Yes nice boys do kiss great. #InternationalKissingDay<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanessariley.com\/gotool\/image\/data\/Bridget_Mark.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 213px;\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nKyle, was always international to me. I love a good enemy to lovers story.&nbsp; Kyle and Maxine brought the heat and to me there is a sweet vulnerability to this one as guards lowered. #InternationalKissingDay<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanessariley.com\/gotool\/image\/data\/KyleandMaxine.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 376px;\"><\/p>\n<p>Monica and Chandler #friendstolovers hooked up Internationally. #InternationalKissingDay&nbsp; These two&#8230; Their #romance made the show for me.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanessariley.com\/gotool\/image\/data\/ChandlerMonica.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 281px;\"><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wasn&#8217;t Whitley studying International Art? One of the best friends to lovers, unrequited love love stories ever. #InternationalKissingDay<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanessariley.com\/gotool\/image\/data\/whitleyandJamal.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 373px;\"><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Burke and Christina. This was definitely a #frenchkiss. Their romance made the show Grey&#8217;s Anatomy for me.&nbsp;&nbsp; #InternationalKissingDay<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanessariley.com\/gotool\/image\/data\/ChristinaBurke.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 250px;\"><\/p>\n<p>Rick and Michonne. Ok, I didn&#8217;t see this one coming, but yeah. Who knew Walking Dead with Zombies could make toes curl.&nbsp; #ZombieThreatIsInternational #InternationalKissingDay<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanessariley.com\/gotool\/image\/data\/RickMIchhone.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 500px;\"><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One for my Irish Peeps. See cleaning a man&#8217;s house leads to no good.&nbsp; John Wayne and Maureen O&#8217;Hara&nbsp; &#8211; The Quiet Man&nbsp; #InternationalKissingDay<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanessariley.com\/gotool\/image\/data\/quietman.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 363px;\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;North and South with Richard Armitage and Daniella Denby-Ashe. #InternationalKissingDay&nbsp; Swoon.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanessariley.com\/gotool\/image\/data\/North-and-Southkiss.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 276px;\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rhett and Scarlett.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanessariley.com\/gotool\/image\/data\/Gone%20With%20the%20Wind%20Kiss.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 366px;\"><\/p>\n<p>Outlander.&nbsp; For you Denny.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanessariley.com\/gotool\/image\/data\/outlander2.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 219px;\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Victoria and Albert after she proposes. Who can forget the cut-my-shirt scene? #intense #InternationalKissingDay<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanessariley.com\/gotool\/image\/data\/VictoriaAlbert_400.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 282px;\"><\/p>\n<p>Still love this almost kiss here:<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanessariley.com\/gotool\/image\/data\/vicalber2.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 500px;\"><\/p>\n<p>Mindy and Danny in the rain. Enemies to Friends to Lovers to HEA&#8230; for now.&nbsp; It&#8217;s complicated, so international.&nbsp; #InternationalKissingDay<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanessariley.com\/gotool\/image\/data\/Mindyproject.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 344px;\"><\/p>\n<p>Iris West And Barry Allen&nbsp; Superhero love is international. This kiss is no flash in the pan. #InternationalKissingDay #firstkiss<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanessariley.com\/gotool\/image\/data\/WestAllen-Kiss-1.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 282px;\"><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s not forget this one: 22 November 1968, the very first televised interracial kiss. It was between Kirk and Uhura #paranormalkiss #InternationalKissingDay Kirk, I wish you were a little more into it. Uhuru, you are slaying with those nails.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanessariley.com\/gotool\/image\/data\/kirkanduhura.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 374px;\"><\/p>\n<p>For the record, I&#8217;m firmly in the A&amp;E version camp on Pride &amp; Prejudice Movies, but no one can deny the beauty of this Darcy and Lizzy kiss. Oooh Mrs. Darcy.&nbsp;&nbsp; #InternationalKissingDay<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanessariley.com\/gotool\/image\/data\/darcyElizabeth.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 384px;\"><\/p>\n<p>Last but not least (for me at least, please add to this thread) Meghan and Harry. #MeghanAndHarry #InternationalKissingDay #romance&nbsp; This is why I write romance and love these kissing scenes.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanessariley.com\/gotool\/image\/data\/meghanharrykiss.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 331px;\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"rop\"><small>Originally posted 2019-08-10 13:54:03. <\/small><\/p><div id=\"vanes-3410055098\" class=\"vanes-after-content vanes-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-top: 3px;margin-right: 3px;margin-bottom: 3px;margin-left: 3px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SubstackAd.png?fit=1080%2C1350&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Listen to the Write of Passage Weekly Podcast\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SubstackAd.png?w=1080&ssl=1 1080w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SubstackAd.png?resize=240%2C300&ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SubstackAd.png?resize=819%2C1024&ssl=1 819w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SubstackAd.png?resize=768%2C960&ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" width=\"540\" height=\"675\"   \/><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some of the best kisses around. #InternationalKissingDay&nbsp; Well let&#8217;s start with one of my favorite International Kissers. #RemingtonSteele The look, the motion, the follow through. Sigh. Ok, you know we were waiting for this one, Mark and Bridgette. Yes nice boys do kiss great. #InternationalKissingDay &nbsp; Kyle, was always international to me. 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