How to Buy Mother’s Day Flowers

This is a simple article of do's and don'ts when buying flowers for Mother's Day (with a comic twist).

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Creativity
• Money
• Knowledge of someone who is a mom and desire to honor her.

1. Every Mother’s Day flowers are purchase for women to pay tribute to them and to make them feel special. In an attempt to show admiration for my wife the process of finding just the right method has evolved over the years with both victories and defeats.
   Early years of flower purchasing was done with a little less romantic and more practical mind. This was the first defeat. Do not purchase plants. As much as it seems practical it doesn’t truly honor a person. The individual wants to know that she is worth the expense even if the flowers die the next week. The acquisition of cut or arranged flowers shows it is all about the individual and not about your wallet or some other agenda such as replenishing the garden.

2. Building the ideal gift requires some thought and creativity. The first step is to determine the proper display form of the flowers. Do you send a flower arrangement or just a simple vase of cut flowers? How about a corsage? Is the corsage for the wrist or the lapel? The important consideration here is that you get the most exposure for the gift. The flowers are not only for personal enjoyment but are also for others to see. A flower arrangement can be the center piece for a party while a corsage works well for those who go to church on Mother’s Day or go out to restaurant for dinner.

3. Consider what types of flowers are important to the individual. Flowers can mean different things to different people. Gladiolus can represent funerals to some while lilies can represent death to the movie fanatic or maybe Easter to the religious.

4. The color of flowers that are selected can be an essential to personalizing the gift. Favorite colors or colors that represent feelings that you want to express add to the significance of the creation. Choose the appropriate colors.

5. Assign meaning to flowers based on type and/or color to customize each design. Your special description of the piece when it is presented can emotionally charge the situation to generate a memory that will last a lifetime.

6. When and how the flowers are presented should also be considered. Do you deliver them to her at work or at home prior to Mother’s Day? Do you surprise her at the party? Do you develop a tradition of giving them to her on Mother’s Day morning? Timing can be everything.

Tips & Warnings

• The ever-changing design that I have developed is a lapel corsage that is presented to my wife by my children on Mother’s Day morning so that she can where it to church. The design consists of five miniature pink roses that represent my five daughters. There are six un-opened buds that symbolize the six miscarriages that we have had. There is one blue flower that stands for my new son-in-law and one red rose that represents me. It sounds quite large but the florist has worked with a simple back ground of baby’s breath to impress each year. A few years ago the practical side of me got the best of me again. The florist I had always ordered from went out of business. Being a pastor who does many funerals and knowing that funeral homes offer florist services, I decided to call one of the funeral homes that I served. They told me who to call and that they would give me a discount. I order the flowers a week in advance knowing I would be teaching a seminar that week on the West Coast. I arrived back in town on the Friday before Mother’s Day. It was going to be a busy weekend. Besides recovering from traveling I had a funeral scheduled for Saturday morning. I did not want to travel downtown to pick up the flowers so I called the florist and asked if they were going to be delivering any flowers to the funeral service at this particular funeral home. They said that they would be and I asked if they would be willing to deliver my wife’s corsage on Saturday when they brought the flowers for “Mr. Smith’s” funeral. They said it would be no problem. Unfortunately there was a problem. I arrived Saturday morning to meet the family for the first time. The family was gathered around the casket as I entered the room. The deceased was a man his sixties and as I glanced at him I realized he had on a very beautiful corsage. I wondered. After leaving the funeral chapel, I went to the office of the funeral home and asked the director if my wife’s corsage had been delivered. His month drop and we proceeded to the flower room. There was an empty corsage box with my name on it. He felt bad and explained that He would try to get the flowers back. I assured him that my wife did not want a “corpse- sage”. He reordered it and I picked it up the next day.
• When purchasing flowers for Mother’s Day, the most important advice is to not try to be practical!

[nank712]

on 9/15/2009 Hmmm, now if I could just get my husband to read this ...! (Okay, admitted, my husband is fantastic, but the flowers would be fun.) Five stars and a recommend.

[pdadof5]

on 8/22/2009 Thank you for your encouragement!

[how2lady]

on 8/17/2009 Good tips on the flowers and the symbolism behind your wife's flowers was wonderful.