How much would you pay for this bouquet?

not to my taste.... so probably no more than 15/20 and if there were no other options. too few flowers and the quality of the flowers not the best

I would hope less than £30, not a lot there at all. Xx

It's a shame she's chucked stuff out as I would have complained, but you can't with stuff missing. Is there any chance she threw unopened flowers out with the greenery?

I'd try sending something else in future. Cake is usually a winner, chocolate, plants, wine. There are loads of postal options now.

I'd never order my mother/MIL flowers again if she did that!
Thankfully, mine can arrange flowers, choose the right vase, and... one of them lives in the Netherlands so flowers are about half the price

Next time contact a local florist and ask whether they'd do delivery for another fiver or so.

70 quid? You woz robbed
They have better than that at sainsburys for a tenner

3 pink roses, 3 sprays of white lisianthus, 2 chrysanthemums and 2 delphiniums surely no more than £30

Are you mixing up roses with lisianthus? The cream coloured flowers on long stems are lisianthus, with 3 peach roses.

Your MIL really butchered the display so it's hard to tell. Flowers are really overpriced these days though.

Looks as if it would have been lovely!

It really is needing the greenery that was chucked!

I’d be very disappointed with that bouquet. You were ripped off imo. Try M&S - they are usually good. I recently tried another company, called lovely Flora World, didn’t expect much, but was impressed, and the bouquet looked like the picture on the website.

I think you have come the wrong place for advice because there are clearly lots of people posting here who are clueless about flowers. I glad at least you recognise what you've got. I think many people have confused the white lisianthus with roses, hence all the posts you are getting about loads of roses. It sounds like the hydrangea was supposed to be the feature stem and will have cost quite a bit to include, so the bouquet will be underwhelming without that and the foliage. Flowers are expensive and with a good quality hydrangea and some more foliage for interest you could easily expect to pay £50+ for those flowers delivered. Prices have gone up a lot in recent years, and it has also become more difficult to get good quality fresh flowers thanks to recent changes in imports from the EU (thanks Brexit!) and I have noticed that the quality of Bloom and Wild who used to be quite reliable has slipped since that was introduced. I suspect these are letter box flowers and you do need a bit of skill to arrange them in a way that to get the most from them. Your Mum doesn't seem to have the skill or the interest to do that properly so in future I'd either stick to supermarket bouquets which you can still get relatively cheaply, or spend your money with a good local florist and ask for a hand tied arrangement.

35?

£70 is far too much for those.

I am very picky now about who I use as I've had some awful flowers myself - worse Appleyard - DH paid a lot for my 50th and they were an arrangement of peonies that arrived half dead and half opened - I took sone pics and complained and the customer service was really poor - awful to be fair

I bet that happens too!

So very true @SwingTheMonkey
I can grow stuff, I can help strip roses etc but I am not trusted with arranging and rightly so....

Do you really think your local florist is buying locally and not from the Dutch wholesalers? Really?? @CoffeeCantata

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I think people think florists just buy supermarket flowers and arrange them for free.

We once had someone come into the shop with flowers she freely said she'd just bought in the supermarket, & ask if someone would show her how to make them into a bouquet!

The answer was no.

I think people think florists just buy supermarket flowers and arrange them for free.

They don’t understand that if you’re a florist, quality flowers from a wholesaler are expensive. Your overheads are expensive and your time isn’t free.

I think people also think floristry is something anyone can do, with no training. I think op’s photograph proves that isn’t true.

You're paying for the complete arrangement though, not the individual flowers. The foliage is part of the look of it. By removing half of that, plus whatever flowers "didn't really go with the arrangement", your mum has changed the arrangement into something else. What your mum has messily displayed is not what she received.

I’m a florist and that price is probably about right, when making a bouquet the prices of each flower is added up too so it’ll be true to the price. The photo is awful and you can’t really slag off someone’s work after it’s been completely taken apart and you’ve removed the foliage and super expensive hydrangea’s, I don’t think that’s fair. Super markets can sell flowers for much lower prices because they can buy in enormous bulk, they buy whole Fields of flowers where as we ourselves have to pay per stem, adding on wages, VAT and everything else you can see why small businesses are in trouble.

So you removed over half of it, including the main focal point?

Well no one can tell you what its worth as you basically made a whole new, smaller, non professional bouquet yourselves.

Sounds like your mam just threw away most of your present because she assumed it was cheap, its ungrateful of her but not the florists fault.

Didn't realise hydrangeas are expensive, my plant in a tub in my back yard is covered with blooms and I do cut them for indoor display, feel posh now! As for the bouquet I reckon around the £55-£60 mark. I was sent some flowers fairly recently and initially they did look a bit disappointing but as the days went by they opened, began to look lovely and stayed that way for over a week

Probably £70. A lot of florists are a rip off.