Question for women about sending flowers

[Anonymous]

Is there a difference in your mind between ordering them from a place where a local florist will assemble and deliver vs being sent in a FedEx box from a national place and you have to put the bouquet together?

I ask mostly because i am tired of ordering one thing on the website and the local florist interpreting it in a completely different way so it ends up looking way different. I feel like from a national place, you'll be more apt to get exactly what the picture looks like. It also ends up being cheaper.

I've just always thought that to a woman's mind, having a FedEx box on the step might be considered more impersonal and less thoughtful than receiving a ready-to-go bouquet hand delivered?

[Anonymous]

I’m not a normal woman. I prefer a box, I don’t want any more vases.

Interested to see what other women like.

Get to know your specific woman.

[Anonymous]

I don't mind getting a bouquet in a Fedex box, put it in a vase with minor arrangement, as long as the flowers are fresh.

Most of the arrangements are pedestrian anyway. Only a couple of places around DC has artistic or unique arrangements.

[Anonymous]

OMG. Yes, thank you for asking. DH bought me 2 dozen flowers from costco. Well, they were sent to in a box without a vase to my work, where personal packages are frowned upon.

By the time I was able to pick them up for the mailroom (where I got scolded for getting a package sent to me), then took them home that evening, found vases and trimmed the ends (after the numerous pricks from the thorns), i was not enjoying the flowers one bit. Of course I had to pretend I enjoyed them, otherwise I would be called an ungrateful b.

[Anonymous]

I think this depends on the person but I wouldn’t send a box unless you know she likes arranging flowers. Also it probably still won’t look like the picture. Better to find a local florist whose work you like and just give them your budget and a general idea.

[Anonymous]

Don't mind a box at all. I have about 6 vases, I don't need anymore. Heck, my preference is a bouquet that DH picks up when he's at the grocery store!

[Anonymous]

I don’t need any vases. I keep one at my work as well as nice ones at home.

[Anonymous]

Never order through a national website. Always call a local florist directly. Try to find an upscale florist who does elegant arrangements. Nobody wants a sad mix of carnations with a few roses thrown in.

[Anonymous]

From a daughter who ordered from a national place for years - there's no difference EXCEPT when it comes to customer service.

2 years ago 1-800-Flowers absolutely RUINED my mother day's gift and never sent my mom the $80 flowers I ordered weeks in advance. I was on the phone with them six days in a row to get them to re-deliver the flowers they had promised and even then they refused to refund my order.

If I had ordered from the local florist 10 minutes from my mom's home they would have gotten them out the same or next day. So I have only order local since then.

[Anonymous]

Much nicer to get delivered on a vase. It’s a gift. I don’t want to have to open the fedex box, but the flowers, find a vase or put them in vase etc. don’t be cheap. Do the local florist.

[Anonymous]

I prefer the grocery store as cheaper and often last longer.

[Anonymous]

Find a top notch local florist and use them regularly. You can specify what you want/don’t want. Don’t order from a National place. The quality isn’t even close.

[Anonymous]

I love getting flowers from urbanstems. So classy.

[Anonymous]

I prefer they come already arranged in a vase. I've never received flowers in a box. Even when DH was stationed overseas, he would send them in a vase. I would never send them in a box, either. A bouquet is fine, too.

[Anonymous]

No cut flowers. It's such a waste of plant life! Give me something alive in a pot that I can keep alive, or give me something entirely different, like tickets to the Philharmonic