If you have a cascading bouquet (flowers in a holder with green floral foam) make sure you rehydrate the foam before putting in the refrigerator. This can be done by gently pushing your flowers aside so you can see the foam and placing them under the faucet on a slow stream. Do this until the foam has been rehydrated. If you have a bouquet in floral foam you will not have to deconstruct your bouquet and can skip to step 4.
STEP 1:
If you can, deconstruct your bouquet by taking the ribbon and floral tape off of bouquet. Place flowers as flat as possible. Cut just a small amount off of the ends of your flowers (just a couple centimeters is best) at a diagonal with sharp scissors. (Important: Include ALL of your bouquet. The more flowers we have to work with, the better.)
STEP 2:
Wrap a wet paper towel around the stems.
STEP 3:
Wrap the wet paper towel in plastic wrap (or plastic bag) and secure with a rubber band.
STEP 4:
Gather a box, bubble wrap*, packing peanuts*, packing tape, ice pack.
STEP 5:
Tape your ice pack down to the bottom of the box. Placing your ice pack in a plastic Ziploc bag and then taping it should make it easier to tape as well as provide extra protection from leaking. Fill up box half way with packing peanuts (or crumpled newspaper). Loosely wrap your bouquet (or deconstructed bouquet) in bubble wrap (or newspaper) and place on top of peanuts, making sure all your flowers and petals are facing upwards towards the top of your bouquet.
STEP 6:
Fill rest of box with packing peanuts (or newspaper). Make sure box is filled as much as possible so not much movement can occur, but not too much that you’re crushing the flowers when shutting the box. You want to be able to shake the box and not feel your flowers moving around.
STEP 7:
Place “fragile” stickers or stamps around the box. You can also write fragile all over your box as well. Stickers can be found at any office supplies store. We will provide an address via email to send the flowers to the same day the order is made. If for some reason you do not receive this email, please reach out to us and we will provide it.
A few more tips:
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to us via Facebook messenger, email or text.
Thank you,
G’s Bath & Crafts
Text ONLY: 443-272-1086
Email: gsbathandcrafts@gmail.com
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