How much would you pay for this bouquet?

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I ordered a bouquet online to be sent to my DP's and my DM sent me a picture of them to say thank you.
I was extremely disappointed considering what I had spent and said so. Only then did my DM say that she hadn't thought they weren't all that thinking I had probably spent £x amount to which I then said I spent considerably more.
She did say that there was also a hydrangea head that didn't really go with the rest of the arrangement, so she put that elsewhere, and a ridiculous amount of foliage, some of which she used in another bunch of flowers she received and the rest ended up in the green bin as it was too much.
I'd really appreciate some thoughts from you lovely bunch (see what I did there! 😜) as to what you think I should have been charged for these flowers? 🙏🏻

£70 is nuts! I'd have said double what a supermarket charges. For that arrangement, I'd say £20 in a supermarket, so £40 from Interflora, plus postage, so at most £50?

I mean, you can go on eFlorist and get 50 roses for £30!

A similar number and selection of flowers loose in a box from somewhere like Freddies Flowers costs £29 (you arrange them yourself with instructions). If you bought them online from a florist/Interflora and they were tied/wrapped, I would expect they would cost about £70.

I think it’s always a bit of a lottery buying flowers online unless you know the florist. At least with M&S, Next etc, what you see is what you get.

Personally, I am a fan of Freddies Flowers for value and quality because the money you spend goes on the flowers, not the florist’s time and skill, but not everyone wants to arrange flowers themselves and it’s not so impressive a gift to receive a box of flowers rather than a bouquet.

I've given up sending people flowers, they have definitely got a lot more expensive recently. I'm guessing it's going to make it harder for florists to make a living but there's psychological barrier for me at about £45 beyond which I'm just - HOW much???

That's a fireplace behind them, right? So that's actually very big bouquet, and you said she's taken out a hydrangea head and some foliage, and also, it looks like a lot of the flowers are still in bud (which is a good thing because means the bouquet will last longer). So I'd expect to pay £60 for that. The issue here isn't the bouquet itself, it's the fact that half of it's been chucked away so it now looks straggly, and that you haven't considered that some of the flowers haven't opened yet.

My guess is that, if you'd shown us a photo of the bouquet before it got put in a vase that's too small and half of it got put in the bin, people would be giving you much higher estimates.

@Bonbon21 those are lovely and a great price!

Plus hydrangea and foliage that will be a £50 plus bouquet. Flowers are expensive anyway and you have roses and Delphs in there. Plus the hydrangea.

I always order from Bloom and Wild now they are really good value, even the hand tied bouquets they do for £45 are really nice

As others have said, it sounds like your mum chucked away half the bouquet! So it might have been value for money after all. At the moment it does look a bit like a standard £10 supermarket bouquet, but at least half of it is missing!

£20

I'm not much at flower arranging, but I do comprehend that the foliage often makes or breaks the arrangement. Very odd to see it as dispensable or a cheap filler.

Why do you think foliage is cheap? It takes time to cut, it's harder to condition and takes longer to grow. It's a premium product.

If you just wanted a mass of flowers, you should have got a few cheap Tesco bouquets.

An artisan bouquet will have lot's of greens.

She ripped it apart and arranged it badly.

That is a shocker, OP. I agree it's a pathetic offering for that price.

Personally I don't like fancy florists' bouquets and I've trained my family about this! I hate:

loads of scratchy, irrelevant greenery
acres of cellophane
rafia or ribbon
showy but not particularly attractive flowers (those South African orange things, for eg)
Out-of-season flowers flown in from Kenya etc

I hate it when the detritus fills half my bin before I've even put them in water. Yes, I'm an ungrateful cow about poncey bouquets!

I go to M & S or similar, or a local florist, and buy a bunch of the same flowers in season. daffs, narciss, hyacinths, tulips, anemones, ranunculus, dahlias, larkspur etc etc. Much nicer and a fraction of the price. You can keep the lilies and tight, scentless roses.

There are 3 large pale pink rises plus at least 12 , of what I think are, smaller cream roses plus carnations and chrysanthemums (such serviceable flowers) plus the hydrangea and all the greenery. I don't like them but would bet they were at least £60.

£50 I think.

Sorry, just read they are Lisianthus not cream roses so in that case I would have thought £40 maximum. They are pretty crap for £70.

You're not going to get any sensible answers.
Its like posting a plate of half eaten food and asking what it should cost.
As a pp said your mums at fault not the florist.

I think ALL flower deliveries are a rip off.
(the only ones I've ever received that were nice were Bloom & Wild, still £££££)
So if I were local I would go to Morrisons (who have good bouquets for £25)
If not, I'd send a plant or bulbs (or a tea & biscuits hamper tbh)

That's a pretty and small bunch of flowers. Lisianthus seems to make up most of it and they're cheap - a bunch is about £5. Three roses, two dahlias and three blue things (not sure that they are, but they don't look expensive). I'd say anything more than £20 with delivery is a rip-off tbh.

£70! That's terrible. I would have said 1/2 that price.

I've been sent flowers twice recently. The first lot were appalling. They were from either M&S or John Lewis, can't quite remember which, and were really poor value for money. Not a very big bunch, too much foliage and not enough blooms. Didn't last long either.

The second lot apparently cost roughly the same and they were absolutely fantastic. They were from Bloom and Wild. My opinion is based on one experience only, admittedly, but I can't recommend them highly enough.

However I'm sure there will be people who will say B&W are rubbish and M&S are great and I think it's often down to luck of the draw on the day. If at all possible I'd always rather go into a local florist and get it made to order because they are unlikely to give you something shoddy if you are collecting it in person.

£70? Bloody hell! I'd be complaining. Those flowers cost no more than a tenner and probably to a florist a hell of a lot less than that.

Shit vase, badly arranged with a centre piece flower and foliage missing. Of course they're gonna look crap

I was going to say this as well, if there was alot of other stuff and foliage.

Where are you getting flowers from where you can get approx 24 for a tenner? Plus the foliage (lots of which has been thrown away) plus delivery, I wouldn't be complaining.

She’s taken out the hydrangea and some greenery? I reckon £65.

It probably has potential to have been lovely but the arrangement and vase and removal of the best but has made it look naff.

If I buy my mother in law flowers, I arrange them and use one of my vases because she’ll arrange them exactly like this.