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Bloody hell, price of florists nowadays

45 replies

Tonight1 · 30/08/2023 15:08

£50 for flowers and chocolate!

I am povvo so would notice this more. It's important as it's birthday and operation combined but £50!!!

The Christmas present is now getting firmly held back for Christmas

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Crinkle77 · 30/08/2023 15:35

My sister got married recently and had a very small wedding. Two table decorations, bouquet and a handful of buttonholes was about £250. Dread to think what full wedding flowers would be.

RicherThanYews · 30/08/2023 15:36

I paid £180 for one bouquet, one buttonhole and one bridesmaids mini flower thingy. That was 13 years back, think I was robbed.

SleepingisanArt · 30/08/2023 15:41

Flowers are expensive - they have to be grown so time and labour. The florist has to be paid and also has overheads (which surprise surprise have gone up). Supermarkets mostly sell their flowers at a loss..... I love being able to support my local florist who can work wonders with flowers and greenery.

OneRingToRuleThemAll · 30/08/2023 15:42

Sounds about right. I paid £30 for a well packaged single stem recently from a well known company.

FlorenceTheFerocious · 30/08/2023 15:43

That's about what I'd expect tbh. They've always been an expensive option where I live.

Bloom and wild and the like are cheaper or have cheaper options anyway I think

Beamur · 30/08/2023 15:45

Those prices for wedding flowers are a rip off. They do often use expensive flowers and are beautifully presented but that's ridiculous.
There's a lovely florist near me - I asked for a bunch of flowers costing £20, she picked out blooms and foliage to my budget, tied it and wrapped it.

andjustlikethat1 · 30/08/2023 15:45

I bought from interflora and I nearly died what they sent for 70 quid - NEVER AGAIN

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Tonight1 · 30/08/2023 15:46

🤣 glad it's not just me who has noticed the cost!

Back in the old days [waves zimmerframe] you just used to go into local flowershop but because we're more geographically spread out now it's a nightmare.

I hope they look nice, anyway.

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Mindymomo · 30/08/2023 15:46

I ordered some flowers for a relative, thought £30 she would get a lovely bouquet, but when I saw them a couple of days later I was embarrassed, there was only 5 flower stems and some foliage.

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Tonight1 · 30/08/2023 15:52

@Mindymomo I was expecting about £35.

It ruffled my (bank account) feathers a little but it was important as elderly relative.

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buzzlightyearsgloves · 30/08/2023 16:04

It's ridiculous and I've never received a really nice bunch of delivered flowers either. I think companies rely on people receiving gifts not complaining as it's rude.

cruffinsmuffin · 30/08/2023 16:06

My local florist charges similarly, but the flowers are fantastic, handmade and such good good quality! Interflora is so hit and miss imo, they seem to use anyone for delivery and they definitely get bashed about a bit.

Anneta · 30/08/2023 16:07

One spray (booked through the undertaker) for the top of the coffin for my late husband’s funeral was £120…eighteen months ago.

TheYearOfSmallThings · 30/08/2023 16:13

buzzlightyearsgloves · 30/08/2023 16:04

It's ridiculous and I've never received a really nice bunch of delivered flowers either. I think companies rely on people receiving gifts not complaining as it's rude.

YES! This is what I think too.

I've received some pretty tragic offerings, and I know they cost the sender's way more than they were worth. And with some nasty chocolates and bad, bad wine.

Phos · 30/08/2023 16:13

Beamur · 30/08/2023 15:45

Those prices for wedding flowers are a rip off. They do often use expensive flowers and are beautifully presented but that's ridiculous.
There's a lovely florist near me - I asked for a bunch of flowers costing £20, she picked out blooms and foliage to my budget, tied it and wrapped it.

It seems like anything as soon as you add "wedding" to it gets a premium added on for much the same product. For example we got married abroad and the photographer wanted £400. For a family photo shoot, which took the same amount of time and similar photos with different clothes it would have been about £100.

InOffice · 30/08/2023 16:15

I was paying £30 for a bouquet when I was ordering regularly for work c. 10 years ago, so £50 including chocolates doesn't seem too bad.

I'd only buy them for someone I know really loves flowers though. They'd be wasted on me.

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Tonight1 · 30/08/2023 16:16

Anneta · 30/08/2023 16:07

One spray (booked through the undertaker) for the top of the coffin for my late husband’s funeral was £120…eighteen months ago.

I'm sorry about your husband.

I'm on tenterhooks now wondering if relative will receive a nice gift and not 2 dandelions or whatever.

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WinterFireJanuaryEmbers · 30/08/2023 16:20

Yep - have stopped buying flowers for my own home. Instead I grow for cutting on the allotment, but appreciate not everyone has the chance, time or even inclination to do that.

Still hard to avoid buying them as a way of showing care for someone else, though.

lorn195 · 30/08/2023 16:24

Mindymomo · 30/08/2023 15:46

I ordered some flowers for a relative, thought £30 she would get a lovely bouquet, but when I saw them a couple of days later I was embarrassed, there was only 5 flower stems and some foliage.

Same here. I bought some lovely flowers for MILs birthday last week, £40. They were delivered and looked absolutely nothing like the picture.

DelilahBucket · 30/08/2023 16:24

I use a local florist and tell them my budget, knowing they will give me the best bouquet for my money. Sometimes I have a specific colour requirement or a definite flower I do or do not want but usually they have free rein based on the best value they can offer. They did our wedding flowers and we just had a colour palette rather than specific flowers. They did an amazing job.

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Tonight1 · 30/08/2023 16:31

Umm...I think I'm going to have to phone them and ask for pics before they're delivered. I ordered it for a week's time so there's enough time to plead gently that they'll be nice.

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Blackbyrd · 30/08/2023 16:38

Lovely of you to be so thoughtful OP, but agree that mail-order flowers are exorbitant. I sometimes do parcel deliveries for Royal Mail and the endless Moonpig and the cheap pink-boxed flowers always look a bit crap. What I do now is an Ocado delivery as a gift, always a voucher floating around and you can get a hell of lot of nice stuff for £50 odd including a bouquet from Marks. Delivered in bags by pleasant drivers so no drama

Ilovemydog2 · 30/08/2023 16:40

Yep, nearly collapsed when our wedding florist sent us a quote. No arches or anything like that but thousands. 🙈

SadCelticBunny · 30/08/2023 16:42

I would love dandelions, they are my favourite flower!!
Though I would think it was odd that you posted them to me... at the right time of year the little beauties are always appearing in my flowerbeds because I can't bear to pull them up!

I have this picture on the wall ☺️



SadCelticBunny · 30/08/2023 16:43

Oops!

Bloody hell, price of florists nowadays