The big days, the small gestures, the just-because moments. Start with a bouquet that feels like them.
182 designs to explore.
Sympathy flower delivery in Reading, PA: 2 florists are listed for this area, with designs from $45.49. Choose a bouquet, enter the recipient's delivery ZIP and compare the available florist offers. Confirm the delivery date, address, fees and final total before payment.
Browse flower designs for Reading and open a bouquet to see the available florist offers.
Enter the recipient's address and delivery ZIP. Prices and available florists depend on the destination.
Choose an available date at checkout, review delivery fees and the final total, then confirm your order.
Three local realities decide most Reading sympathy orders, and none of them is the flowers. The first is that this is a majority-Hispanic city — roughly two-thirds of Reading's residents, the largest share of any city in Pennsylvania, predominantly Puerto Rican and Dominican with growing Mexican and Guatemalan communities. Many of those families are Catholic, many attend one of the Spanish-language Masses in the Diocese of Allentown's Reading parishes or one of the storefront Pentecostal congregations in the downtown wards, and a great many keep the novenario: nine nights of rosary prayed at the family's home after the burial. That practice changes the useful advice on this page entirely. An arrangement that arrives at the chapel competes with twenty others; a design sent to the apartment on the fourth or fifth night, when the folding chairs are still out and the crowd has thinned to the people who will still be there in a month, is the one that gets remembered. The second reality is Pennsylvania Dutch Berks County, where an enormous number of services still end at a churchyard attached to the congregation itself — the old Lutheran and Reformed union churches scattered through Oley, Alsace, Bern, Tulpehocken, Cumru and Exeter townships, where two congregations shared one building and one burial ground and some of the headstones are still cut in German. A graveside at one of those is not a cemetery office with a section map; it is a lawn beside a church on a township road, and a delivery there needs the church name, the township and the committal time. The third is the southern end of the county, out toward Morgantown and the Lancaster line, where Old Order Mennonite and Amish families hold plain funerals that use no floral tributes at all. If the family you are sending to is plain, the correct gesture is food, a card or a contribution — not an arrangement, however well meant. Knowing which of these three you are dealing with before you order is worth more than anything you can spend.
The Penn Avenue corridor through West Reading and Wyomissing carries several of the county's long-established funeral homes, Kuhn among them, and sits a short run over the Penn Street or Bingaman Street bridge from the city core — the busiest single chapel corridor in a Reading sympathy order
Perkiomen Avenue east through Mount Penn and Exeter, Lancaster Avenue toward Shillington and Kenhorst, and Kutztown Road north through Muhlenberg, Temple and Laureldale — the three radial corridors where the rest of the city's chapels sit, all inside Coloritgreen Florist's normal range
Reading's historic garden cemetery, laid out in 1846 along Centre Avenue at the north edge of the city and still the most-used ground for city services — graveside pieces are placed before the family arrives, so the order needs the committal hour
Aulenbach's Cemetery in Mount Penn for the eastern slope, Forest Hills Memorial Park in Reiffton for Exeter Township and the 19606 side — Coloritgreen's own neighborhood — and Gethsemane Cemetery in Laureldale for the north-side Catholic services
Pennsylvania Dutch Lutheran and Reformed congregations that shared one building and one burial ground, some headstones still cut in German — a committal here is a lawn beside a church on a township road, so the order needs the church name, the township and the hour rather than a section number
About fifty miles west and inside the 60-mile radius, this is where most Berks veterans' committals are held; services run in sequence with military honors on the cemetery's schedule, so place the order the day before and give the committal time and section
Reading Hospital on South Fifth Avenue in West Reading and Penn State Health St. Joseph on Bernville Road in Bern Township both restrict flowers in intensive care and on the cancer service — a vigil order should follow the relatives instead, to the waiting room they are sitting in or the house they return to at midnight
Sending flowers elsewhere? Choose the recipient's location to see its available arrangements and delivery options.
Updated