Can sympathy flowers reach a Highland Park service the same day?
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Same-day options depend on the delivery ZIP, requested date, florist availability and that florist's local cutoff. Check the available options before paying; a city listing does not guarantee delivery today.
Which funeral homes and chapels do you deliver to?
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Kelley & Spalding Funeral Home at 1787 Deerfield Road in Highland Park, Wenban Funeral Home at 320 East Vine Avenue in Lake Forest, and the congregations where services are held here: North Suburban Synagogue Beth El at 1175 Sheridan Road, Congregation Solel at 1301 Clavey Road, Immaculate Conception on Deerfield Road and Trinity Episcopal at 425 Laurel Avenue. Chapels and houses of worship in Deerfield, Northbrook, Glencoe, Highwood, Glenview and Skokie are also inside the eighteen-mile radius. Give us the venue name and the name of the deceased; that pairing is how every one of these places routes a delivery.
Can you deliver to a cemetery for a graveside service?
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Yes, with a caution. Memorial Park Cemetery on Gross Point Road in Skokie, Ascension Cemetery in Libertyville, Shalom Memorial Park in Arlington Heights and the post cemetery at Fort Sheridan are all reachable from this radius, and the nearest shop takes the run — Skokie Florist and Two Flower Girlschicago on Main Street for Memorial Park, Petalpeddlers on Peterson Road for Ascension, Love Flower in Palatine toward Arlington Heights. Cemeteries set their own rules about what may be placed at a grave and how long it remains. Tell us the section if you have it, and consider sending to the funeral home instead so the piece travels with the family.
The notice asked for donations instead of flowers. What should I do?
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Honor it, and send something separate to the house rather than to the chapel. That request is common among Highland Park families, particularly those whose services run through Beth El on Sheridan Road or Solel on Clavey Road, and it is meant sincerely. Make the contribution to the fund named in the notice, then, if you want a physical gesture, have a plant delivered to the home address during the week after the burial. A plant asks nothing of anyone, needs no vase found in a cupboard at the wrong moment, and is still alive when the house empties out.
I am sending from out of state. What do I need to have ready?
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Three things. The venue — a funeral home, a congregation or a home address; the name of the deceased or the family surname, because that is what the chapel or the house routes by; and the time of the service or visitation. Enter the Highland Park ZIP, 60035, or the venue's own ZIP, and the network assigns the closest shop. You will get a delivery confirmation by email. A hand-written card in your words goes with the arrangement, which matters more than people expect when the sender cannot be in the room.
What should go to the family's house instead of the chapel?
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A plant, or a compact arrangement in a container that does not need to be unwrapped and dealt with. The week after a death in this town means people coming and going through a front hall, often at a house on the bluff where the entrance is round a curved drive, and the last thing anyone needs is a tall piece that has to be found a home. Something quiet in a ceramic or glass vessel, no strong fragrance, is right. Add the recipient's phone number: after a service, a house is full and then suddenly empty, and a driver may need to ring.
What do I write on the card?
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Short and specific beats formal. Name the person who died, say one true thing about them, and sign with your full name and how you knew them, because a grieving family reads dozens of cards and often cannot place a first name alone. If you are sending on behalf of a group — a department at Walgreens or Baxter, a Highland Park High School class, a congregation committee — say which group. The shop writes the card by hand at no charge, so the length is limited by the card, not by a form field.