An anniversary is the one occasion where the sender and the recipient are usually the same household, and in Fort Lee that turns a simple delivery into a small operation. The building has a staffed lobby. The attendant's instinct, the moment anything arrives, is to phone upstairs — which is exactly the service you want on any other day of the year and exactly the wrong service today. So the note in the order does real work here: ask the desk to hold without announcing, name the hour you want it released or collected, and put only the recipient's name on the card. If you both appear on the building's resident list, say which of you is being surprised, because a package tagged with a shared surname gets called through to whoever answers first. Most Fort Lee desks along Palisade Avenue, Center Avenue, Horizon Road and the Park Avenue towers will do this without blinking; they field the request constantly. They cannot do it if nobody asks.
The second Fort Lee peculiarity is that the celebration itself often happens somewhere the flowers should not go. This borough sits ten minutes from Manhattan by bridge, and a great many anniversary dinners booked from a Fort Lee kitchen are on the other bank. A bouquet carried through a restaurant door at eight o'clock has to be carried home again on a lap. Send it to the apartment in the late morning instead, so it is waiting when the two of you come back, and spend the evening unencumbered. The same reasoning applies closer to home: the restaurants along Main Street, the Hudson Lights block, and the River Road strip down in Edgewater below the cliff will accept an arrangement in a guest's name if the reservation holder is named too, but the piece then spends two hours behind a host stand. If the dinner is the event, make the flowers the morning; if the flowers are the event, make them the door.
Anniversaries that involve a hotel are their own category, and Fort Lee's are mostly not romantic weekends — they are relatives arriving for a party. The desks in range that take deliveries routinely are the DoubleTree on Route 4 East in Fort Lee itself, the Marriott at Glenpointe just off the Teaneck interchange of I-95, and the Hilton at Hasbrouck Heights out by Route 17. Every one of them needs the guest's surname, and every one of them needs the checkout date, because a hotel desk will hold an arrangement as long as the reservation runs and no longer. For a milestone party — the fortieth, the fiftieth — the venue is usually a ballroom or a catering room out along the Route 4 and Route 17 corridors rather than anywhere in the borough, and those want a delivery window from the event coordinator, not from you. Ask them what hour the room opens to vendors and put that hour in the order. Flowers that arrive while the room is still being set get moved twice; flowers that arrive after the guests do get moved in front of them.