For a hand-delivered arrangement in Raleigh, plan on about a hundred dollars for a smaller finished piece and 100 to 200 for a birthday or a thank-you. When the flowers have to hold the middle of a dining table, the number is 300 and up. That is roughly how much flowers should cost here. Our own shop sorts itself the same way, with a price filter that runs under 100, then 100 to 200, 200 to 300, and 300 and up. The cost of flower delivery sits on top of the arrangement and depends on the address it goes to. Enter your ZIP for the current delivery charge. What you see at checkout is what you pay.
If you have been comparing florist prices and the figure in your head is fifty, our shop starts higher, and it is better to know that now. The under-100 filter is a short list today, and most of it sits at 99.
A hundred dollars buys a finished piece for one spot
The most affordable designs are complete arrangements in their own container. Sunset Sonata is 99 dollars, warm orange with purple and bright green running through it, in a whitewashed wooden box sized for a desk or a kitchen counter. White Garden starts at 99 too. It is all white, in our twine-wrapped glass vase, soft and full at the base with lighter shapes reaching out from it.
That size suits the neighbor who fed your cat all of August. It sits where someone will pass it twenty times a day, and nobody has to clear the table first.
A 99-dollar order is handled like a 395-dollar one. It is made when you order, you get a photo of it before it leaves, and one of our drivers carries it to the door, with a text to the recipient before the driver arrives. Leslie Taylor's review of the 99-dollar Sunset Sonata opens with the line "The flowers from Hidden Door were exactly as pictured."
At the low end, then, about a hundred dollars with us buys a small arrangement made to order for one spot in the house.
The biggest part of the shop sits between one and two hundred
This is where sizes start to show. Many designs come in up to three sizes, Standard, Deluxe and Premium, and a listing that reads "Starting at" has more than one. Our FAQ describes the steps this way: "Each is the same design (same flowers, same composition) scaled up. A Deluxe is noticeably fuller and taller than a Standard; a Premium makes a real statement when it arrives." Palermo starts at 120 and comes in all three, soft pink with deep burgundy, and long dark green shapes arching out over the sides of the vase. Before you pick a size, compare the size options on the product page with the spot where it will sit.
Some pieces at this price are built tall. Eva is 145, soft coral and orange layered upward from a seven by seven inch wooden box, the kind that gets noticed from across an office. The shop's four-vase collection, at 165, spends the money another way. Four rustic vases come on a matching tray, bright with blue accents, and can stay together as one centerpiece or split up, one to the kitchen and one to the nightstand.
The FAQ has a rule of thumb we agree with. For a significant birthday, a wedding anniversary or a sympathy tribute, Deluxe or Premium is almost always the right choice. A Tuesday thank-you is well said at Standard.
Above three hundred, the flowers take over the table
Cannes, in the band just under it, starts at 229, orange and hot pink with burgundy accents in our Chelsea vase. Past 300, the pieces are sized for a table. French Country is 335, sunny yellow against dark purple and warm orange-red in a seven by seven inch cylinder vase, a generous piece that fills a room. Fortuna, at 349, is built for a different spot. It is low, bright orange and burgundy in a long wooden box about 20 by 8 inches, shaped to run along a dinner table or a conference table without blocking anyone's view across it. Fall Treasures is 395, a seasonal design in deep autumn reds and oranges, and its own page says to order it when you see it.
What you pay for up here is scale and material. The FAQ lists what moves a price, starting with the flowers themselves, since some varieties cost far more to source, and then the size, the season and how complex the design is. If you want a specific arrangement on a specific date, the FAQ's advice is to order a day or two early, which gives us the best chance to source exactly what you have in mind. Each shop card shows the earliest delivery day, so check it before you pick a date. The centerpiece for the fortieth anniversary dinner gets planned.
Prices also spike around Mother's Day, Valentine's Day and the winter holidays, when demand outpaces supply, and for the busy holidays the FAQ recommends ordering one to two weeks ahead.
When you have a number and no picture yet
If all you know is the number, the shop has Designer's Choice Custom Budget, which its shop card sums up as "Your budget, our design." You tell us your budget and the occasion, and our designer builds from what is freshest in the studio that day. The budget field on the page shows where it starts. Put any colors you want in the checkout note.
Get the address right, too. For an office, list the address as commercial and add the suite or floor. For a hospital, use the patient's full name.
The FAQ is plain about the total. There are no additional service fees or surprise charges. Nolan Hiett, on his third order with us, put it this way: "...Perfection every time. Gorgeous arrangements, flawless delivery, and completely fair pricing." Every order comes with a card of up to 300 characters that prints your words, and checkout reminds you to sign your name. One specific line about why you are sending them does the most work. The recipient never sees pricing, because the confirmation goes only to you and there is no price anywhere in the delivery. And because we are independent, the FAQ says, "The full value of what you spend goes into the flowers, the craft, and the delivery."
If you are still deciding, look at where the flowers will sit. A desk or a counter is well served under two hundred. A dining table or a milestone calls for a Deluxe or a Premium, or a look at the top band. Open the 100 to 200 filter, or the band that matches your number, and put in the recipient's ZIP to see the whole total before you pay.
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