Sending Flowers

I've gotten flowers from Proflowers several times from family across the country. Each time they were lovely, and longlasting.

I always google flower stores in the town I am sending to. I think supporting local stores is always good. I had a family member pass away in a small town hours and hours from me and I called the funeral home, they gave me a list but it was also on their website under helpful links.

Your local library might have a phone book for the town you are needing to send flowers too also. Use a credit card, give them a tip if you want to for the helpfulness, then ask for the family to send you a pic if it's a happy occasion. If it's a funeral then perhaps the florist would send you a snapshot from their phone.

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I've used both FTD and 1800-flowers with success. You can also look online for local florists in the town where they live and place an order over the phone. Yelp will give you both listings and reviews.
Sorry for your loss.

I suggest what the others have mentioned, call a local florist in that area. When my hubby has sent me flowers through ProFlowers, I had to put the flowers in the vase and cut them. Kind of a pain because I was teaching then.

You might also consider getting a live plant to send. When my mother passed we got two live plants and we still have one of them (8 years later). When I look at it or water it it reminds me of her and of the sweet person who sent it.

I am so sorry for your loss and his family's.

I use the online phone book to find a florist near where I'm sending the flowers and call them directly. Most likely they will take a credit card over the phone. They'll know the area where they're delivering and they frankly do a much nicer arrangement for your money. I trust them more than I trust places like 1-800 flowers. Plus you get the benefit of talking to an actual human being.

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I'm sorry for your family's loss. I hope they have many happy memories of their loved one.

I would google florists in the zip code that you need to send to and do that.

I was VERY disappointed with the 800Flowers that I used for my mom for Mother's Day - although the customer service was great - the bouquet was not what I paid $80 for. I got my money back and googled my mom's zip code for florists...

The flowers will be then be local and you know they know the area!

Good luck!

1800 flowers called a local florist who called me to tell me "We can't deliver to your house outside of the city. We had to give them half the fee." And they gave us OLD flowers when I picked them up. I called 800 and could NOT get a refund because I had accepted the flowers.

I am a florist and here is what I recomend. Call your local florist in your town. Have them wire out the order for you. You will pay a fee $5-$8 but then you have the peace of mind knowing it will be handled as you wish. They will then contact a local florist who is in their network.

HONESTLY... I've had a bad go with the nationwide services as well.

What I do is

Hospital: Call the hospital and ask (so far, every one has had a florist list or 2-5 options).

Funeral: Funeral Home (who also has a list of local vendors who deliver to them frequently).

As yet, most of those florists have a website. So I go to the individual florists website, and then PHONE them (to make sure they'll be able to do the order) and usually order online (although sometimes the florist just has me tell them what I'm looking at, and they do the order over the phone.

It's a bit of a pain (2 extra phone calls), but a lot less than the flowers not arriving, or worse, arriving NOT in the way I'd asked (wrong flowers, wrong place, calling for the bereaved to schlep them themselves, etc.)