Funeral flowers - how do you send them?

[LadyWord]

FIL's funeral :( - sadly I can't go (tiny DC, school, long distance etc) so I want to send flowers. DP will be there but too busy to organise this. I know it matters to MIL that people do send flowers.

At other funerals I've been to there have been flowers in the churchyard or church with messages from various people. That's what I want but where do you send them to - directly to the church? Will they sort it out and put them in the right place etc.? Or do you send them somewhere else eg the undertaker?

Sorry I have no clue about this but hoping someone can help.

sorry you're having to do this, and that you can't go. Find out the details of the funeral directors and have them sent there. They will sort it out from there for you. You just tell the people in the flower shop its for X funeral directors, for the funeral of Y, and they'll do the rest.

You usually send them to the undertaker. Interflora do funeral type arrangements plus more general stuff. You write down what you want to say and they will do the card for you. I'm not sure how in advance you need to do this but you can do it all online I believe.
Sorry for your loss.

Normally if you go to the florist you give them the details of the funeral (time, place etc) and they make sure the flowers are there and delivered in good time. hope that helps, -sorry for your bad news

Thank you all v. much, just what I need. It is hard not being able to go and I've racked my brains, but I just don't think I can manage flights or huge train journey with DC (especially not my DC! - stroptastic baby and the most fidgety 5yo in the world :)).

I haven't had time to post on MN about FIL when we knew this was coming, but I may be back to ask more about how to support DP in the coming weeks/months. It has been v. sad.