Yelped!
My husband and I ordered the flowers for our August 2009 wedding reception through The Grower’s Box and couldn’t have been happier with how they turned out. All my fears about ordering flowers online have been blown out of the water. What a deal, and I will be proud for the rest of my life about how beautiful they were.
We ordered 200 bi-color yellow-red roses, 100 snapdragons, and the myrtle as filler, to be arranged in pitchers for the reception tables. They were delivered on a Tuesday morning, as promised, for our Friday evening wedding, which seemed early, but we trimmed the stems, kept them in air-conditioning and buckets of water as directed, and they continued to blossom right up to and through the reception, and even into the next day.
We did remove some browned or spotted outside petals from the roses on Friday morning as we were arranging them, but this is typical from the shipping and they really did just look fine afterward. Some of the snapdragons wilted, but because you have to order a minimum of 100 stems and we only need about 70, this was fine; we had a built-in buffer.
If you’re thinking about doing your own, I can only counsel: keep it simple when it comes to which flowers, and practice with a variety of vases and types of flowers from a deli or something before you decide on what you want, but it’s absolutely worth it. We received many compliments on how nice ours looked, and with absolutely NO prior experience in flower arranging!
The Grower’s Box customer service was exceedingly responsive and careful; I called three times and actually spoke with the same man each time. He was friendly and courteous and offered good advice. Throughout what could have been a very scary process, I never felt like we were on our own.
Can’t recommend this company more. They were great.
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