Should the flowers go to the restaurant or to the house?
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The house, almost always. Downtown Lafayette's rooms are small and busy — the Main Street dining rooms seat closely, and the Levee and Chauncey Hill places run full on a weekend night — so an arrangement delivered to a table becomes something to guard through dinner and carry out to a cold car. Send it home in the afternoon instead: it is there when you both leave, and there again when you come back. If you do want a table drop, the restaurant has to agree to it first, and a small low piece is the only thing that works; write the reservation name and hour in the notes and we will have the studio phone ahead rather than turning up unannounced.
Can you deliver to the Union Club Hotel or a hotel on Sagamore Parkway?
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Yes, and front-desk deliveries are the easy version of this occasion. The Union Club Hotel inside the Purdue Memorial Union hosts a lot of Purdue couples marking an anniversary on the campus where they met, especially on Homecoming and reunion weekends, and the hotels at Wabash Landing on the West Lafayette riverfront and along Sagamore Parkway near the interstate take the same handoff. Give us the guest surname as it appears on the booking and the check-in date. The one thing to avoid is a delivery that beats the guests by six hours on a busy weekend — mid-afternoon on the day of arrival is the sweet spot.
What does an anniversary arrangement cost in Lafayette?
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The listed arrangements in this selection start at $81.89. Delivery charges, taxes and optional extras are confirmed for the selected florist and recipient before payment.
It is our fiftieth and my wife has lived in this house since 1971. Any advice on the delivery?
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Yes, and it is all about the door. In the Ninth Street Hill, Centennial and Highland Park blocks the front porch is often ceremonial and the side or kitchen entrance off the driveway is the one in daily use, so tell us which one to knock on. Steep steps and an uneven walk are worth mentioning too, especially between November and March. If the arrangement is a surprise, do not put the recipient's own mobile on the order — use yours, and let the driver text you on arrival. For an open house at a church hall or a Columbian Park shelter, give us the room or shelter name and the hour the doors open.
Can you get flowers to an anniversary dinner across the river the same afternoon?
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Yes. The shop sits five blocks up Main from the courthouse, so a West Lafayette run is a bridge and ten minutes — but it is the same bridge everyone else uses. State Street at class change and the Main Street Bridge at five o'clock are the two chokepoints, so a delivery wanted before a seven o'clock reservation should be ordered in the morning and scheduled for early afternoon. On a Purdue home-game Saturday, plan on the day before instead: the traffic pattern around Ross-Ade and Northwestern Avenue rewrites every route on that side of the water. Commencement weekend in May behaves the same way, with the added problem that every table downtown is already promised to somebody's graduating family.
We are celebrating out in the county. Does that work?
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It works with a longer lead. Dayton, Battle Ground, Romney, Clarks Hill, Stockwell, Shadeland and the section roads between them are all inside the radius, along with Delphi, Brookston, Otterbein and Attica further out, and a farm anniversary is one of the nicer deliveries there is. What complicates it is addressing rather than distance: gravel drives set well back, mailboxes numbered for a rural route, no doorbell, and a dog. Give us a landmark, the road name, and a phone number someone answers. Order by noon rather than at the cutoff, since a county run is scheduled around the in-town stops. A farmhouse kitchen table is also one of the few places a genuinely large arrangement fits properly, so it is a good address to spend the top of the band on.
Can I schedule an anniversary delivery for a specific date next month?
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Yes, and for this occasion you should. Scheduling ahead is the single best way to work with a one-shop market: the date goes into the studio's book rather than into the same-day queue, which is where the risk lives. Two calendar weeks are worth avoiding for a flexible date if you can — the week before Valentine's Day and the week before Mother's Day are when a single bench is at its busiest. If your anniversary falls inside one of those weeks, order several days out and say in the notes that the date is fixed, so it is built into the plan rather than squeezed into it. Holding a booked date for three weeks is easier on everyone than taking a same-day order on the morning of your fortieth.
What should I ask for if I want something that looks like Lafayette rather than a wire-service box?
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Ask for seasonal stems and let the designer choose the supporting material. This is a local studio working from what arrived that week, which is the whole advantage over a national relay site: in autumn that means the colours you see along the Wabash Heritage Trail, in spring the first field-grown material out of Indiana growers, in midwinter more greenhouse roses and fewer garden stems. Say the height that suits the room — a low, wide arrangement for a dining table, something taller for an entry hall — and name the colour you do not want. Descriptions matter more than product names when one studio is designing it.