1-800-Flowers.com Review

To tell you the truth, I didn't use 1-800-Flowers.com for Mother's Day but I have been using them for more than six years to send birthday flowers to my aunt in January and also a bouquet of white daisies in a basket trimmed with a red, white, and blue ribbon on July 4th.  I have never been there to see the flowers personally but she has always raved about how beautiful they are.  Especially, the roses which came from Guatemala thrilled her and she never seemed to mind having to clip the ends and arrange them in a vase (which usually was shipped along as an extra gift).  She said they lasted more than a week.  1-800-Flowers also sends beautiful plants and I have fallen into the habit of sending her a bright pink azalea instead of cut flowers in January.

Sometimes 1-800-Flowers.com uses a neighborhood florist to prepare and deliver the plant or flowers.  On two occasions, I have sent funeral flowers this way.  One of the arrangements was beautiful but the other one was a disappointment.  As our condo secretary, I had ordered a floral arrangement on behalf of our association to be sent to somebody's wake.  Alas, this event occurred on a Sunday when the local florist was closed.  When I got to the funeral parlor, I made it a point to check out the flowers we had sent and was rather disappointed to find that they looked like they had been refrigerated overnight. 

Perhaps this was a local issue involving the florist (or maybe even the funeral home!) instead of something 1-800-Flowers.com could have controlled but since then I have been careful about ordering anything to be delivered over a weekend and I had to take off a star because it was really upsetting to have something not right about a bouquet which I had ordered on behalf of other people in addition to myself.  As far as price is concerned, they have their share of sales and special deals and I think we have to accept that ordering flowers online is going to be more expensive than buying them in a store and hand-delivering them.