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? 🙏🏻

I get hand tied bouquets that don't have to be arranged because I'm also a crap flower arranger. You could get a lush one for £70!

Wow.

Absolutely not!

Granted, she's thrown some foliage away, plus the hydrangea, but 70 quid?!

Absolute joke.

Looks to me as though a hand tied bouquet has been untied and things taken out. I used to be a florist. On these kinds of threads someone always says it's a rip off and they could get x from Y Supermarket for £5. There's a huge difference in the both the products, the flowers and foliage, and the skill in arranging them.

Don't ever buy flowers on to be delivered what you get for the money you pay is ridiculous.

Foliage is what makes the bouquet and it can be expensive.

It can also look lovely arranged on its own if there really is too much of it but, to be honest, it looks as if there was space in the vase-it would have made it all look so much more luxurious and she should not have chucked it in the bin,.

Your mum could have used the single hydrangea surrounded by foliage to make a very pretty arrangement.

A more gifted arranger could have made those blooms look magnificent, so part of the fact that they do look substandard isn't the florist's fault.

It is sometimes better, if you're not confident, to split the bouquet and make smaller arrangements.

£70?!! You’re honestly better off buying flowers from MoonPig! They look better than the ones in the photo that’s for sure

We don’t know this wasn’t hand tied - before op’s DM modified it.

Edited to say I see now they were delivered as stems. That makes the resulting “ bouquet” slightly less of a mystery. But I’d get her hand tied in future OP: I don’t think flower arranging is her vocation.

True! If it's hand tied you definitely can't judge it once it's taken apart.

£70 is too much even allowing for the removal of sone greenery and a flower. There are not many flowers there. This bouquet should have been no more than £40.

Foliage costs a lot as do hydrangeas. However, I think £70 is steep.

They seem like good quality flowers at least - sometimes when they arrive they look horribly wilted and half-dead. But yes, difficult to estimate a fair price without seeing how they were originally arranged. Based on what you'd posted I guessed £55+

Your mum has basically murdered the whole present, taking out the main feature and fillings and then commenting negatively that it wasn't much. Sorry flower sender's mum, you mucked up here.

Also there's about 26 flowers which haven't bloomed yet and going to look daft without the padding.

£70! No

Use bunches next time, I paid £30 for a similar selection and included chocolates too

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Hi hairdressers… I’ve just bought a pair of kitchen scissors- can someone just quickly teach me how to cut my hair into a bob?

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

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

I bet that happens too!