Love Romance flowers in Dumont

The address is the other half of the decision, and Dumont has three kinds. Most of the borough is detached houses on small lots, a front step a few paces from the sidewalk with no vestibule and nobody to sign — which means a delivery at noon on a weekday sits outside until someone gets home from the bridge run or the Route 4 corridor, and in February that is four hours of cold on an exposed step. There are also small apartment buildings on and off Washington Avenue, where the outer door is often locked and the arrangement ends up in a vestibule if there is one or back on the truck if there is not, so a phone number in the notes is not optional. And there is the case where the recipient is at work — the Englewood Cliffs offices on Sylvan Avenue, Glenpointe down in Teaneck, the Hackensack courthouse and hospital blocks, the Paramus stores on Routes 4 and 17, Challenger Road in Ridgefield Park. Work is the reliable address, with one caveat that belongs specifically to this occasion: if the relationship is new or private, roses on a reception desk is a public announcement made on somebody else's behalf. Ask first, or send to the house.

Two Dumont-shaped scenarios worth planning for. If the evening is in Manhattan — and from this borough that means the bus toward the Port Authority or the drive down to the George Washington Bridge about ten miles south — do not have flowers delivered to the restaurant. A room an hour before service has nobody free to receive anything and nowhere to keep it, and you will carry a bouquet on a bus for an hour. Have it at home in the morning instead, so the day opens with it and the house is not empty when you get back. And if the evening is the point rather than the gift, the hotel route exists close by: the Clinton Inn in Tenafly a few minutes east, the Teaneck Marriott at Glenpointe, the DoubleTree at the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee for a city night, the Hilton in Hasbrouck Heights down by the Route 17 interchange. Front desks generally hold deliveries for named guests, but that is their rule and not our guarantee — put the reservation name, the date and a mobile number on the order. For picking a shop: Flowers Bycandlelight in Yonkers holds the deepest record at 4.6 from 178 ratings, Height's Flower Shoppe 4.7 from 155 at 7.2 miles, Perry's Florist 4.7 from 147 at 6.7, Tappanzee Florist 4.9 from 110 in Nyack. Closter's Thealpine Florist is the nearest at 2.6 miles and scores 1.4 from 8, printed rather than hidden.