Anniversary flowers in Bala Cynwyd

The venue question comes up constantly here because the celebration itself usually happens outside the town. For a milestone party, the Merion Tribute House on Hazelhurst Avenue in Merion Station and Appleford over in Villanova are the two event houses closest at hand, with the Philadelphia Country Club in Gladwyne, the Cynwyd Club here in town and Bala Golf Club just over the line on Belmont Avenue handling the club version; for any of them, the flowers go to a banquet or events contact in the morning rather than to a guest, and larger table work is a direct quote. For a dinner, the reach is wide: the Bala Avenue block by the old Bala Theatre, Main Street in Manayunk over the Manayunk Bridge, the Lancaster Avenue restaurants through Ardmore and Wayne, and Center City fifteen to twenty-five minutes down the Schuylkill Expressway. Restaurants are the unreliable link — many have nowhere to put a vase mid-service — so confirm with the venue before sending, or send to the house that morning instead. Hotel rooms are easier and there are plenty inside the radius even though none are in town: the City Avenue frontage on the Philadelphia side, Conshohocken across the river, the Radnor Hotel in St. Davids and the Wayne Hotel further out the Main Line, and the Center City rooms — the Rittenhouse on the square, the Four Seasons at Comcast Center, the Logan, the Bellevue on Broad, the Ritz-Carlton on Avenue of the Arts, Loews on Market. For a room, the order needs the guest name exactly as the reservation reads, the check-in date and a mobile number; front desks will hold an arrangement, but they will not put it in a room that has not been checked into yet.