How much would you pay for this bouquet?

[Disappointedflowers]

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 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

£70 is far too much for those.

35?

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.

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.

Looks as if it would have been lovely!

It really is needing the greenery that was chucked!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

True, but can you imagine OP's mum with a cake?

"Well, I didn't like the decorations, so I threw those away. Then I scraped the icing off & smeared it over some fairy cakes Doris gave me, then I cut the cake in half because it was far too much for me to eat, & I put the other half out for the birds."

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The florist doesn't get the foliage for nothing. It costs them to buy it.

Haven't RTFT..£50 which is extortionate but 'normal'

Haha @ifIwerenotanandroid I think the op and I have the same mother.

That’s c£50 bunch

Just seen £70😮I would never ever give an online florist that amount of money unless it was a v v v special occasion!

What you received is very similar. Thr difference is that the website shows everything in full bloom. The flowers are delivered in bud so they will open up and last longer. If they delivered it as shown on the website it would last about half as long.

Blimey.

OP, I had a similar situation once. I bought a friend a beautiful bouquet with a nice bottle of bubbles as she had been having a tough time. She was so delighted (bless her 🥰), she took a photo to show me. The bunch of flowers looked like something you'd get from the supermarket... and a cheap bottle of plonk! I went fucking ballistic, mainly because I would never gift a friend a $5 bottle of bubbles! I spent the next week in the phone trying to get through to the florist. In the end they said they would resend another bunch of flowers and the (overpriced) bottle of bubbles they were supposed to send in the first place! Now I am very wary about sending flowers because I think this is more common than you think.

"Well, I didn't like the decorations, so I threw those away. Then I scraped the icing off & smeared it over some fairy cakes Doris gave me, then I cut the cake in half because it was far too much for me to eat, & I put the other half out for the birds."

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You are showing your ignorance here. Florists will pay more at the wholesalers for the flowers than the supermarkets sell them for. As with anything there are different grades of flowers. The flowers you buy in the supermarket are specifically grown for the supermarkets as cheaply as possible. A florist buying direct from the wholesaler or from the Dutch suppliers will be buying a higher grade product which comes at premium. Flowers are used in the supermarkets as a loss leader.