Anniversary flowers in Richmond

An anniversary order in Richmond is a logistics problem disguised as a romantic one, because almost every one of them has a hard arrival time attached. Three patterns cover nearly all of it. The first is the hotel drop. Richmond's anniversary hotel circuit is small, historic and walkable: The Jefferson Hotel at 101 West Franklin Street, the 1895 landmark with the grand staircase and the Rotunda and Lemaire off the lobby, is where most Richmond couples mark the big ones; Quirk Hotel on West Broad in the arts district and The Commonwealth on Bank Street across from Capitol Square handle the design-forward end; Linden Row Inn on East Franklin occupies a row of Greek Revival houses; the Omni Richmond on South 12th and The Berkeley Hotel on East Cary anchor Shockoe Slip; the Richmond Marriott on East Broad sits beside the convention center, the Delta Hotels by Marriott Richmond Downtown faces the canal on East Canal Street, Graduate Richmond on West Franklin sits at the edge of VCU, and out west The Westin Richmond and the Hilton Richmond Hotel and Spa at Short Pump on West Broad carry the suburban side. Hotels take flowers at the front desk, hold them, and place or hand them at check-in — which means the delivery has to land before the guest arrives, not after. The second pattern is the restaurant table. The third is the home drop, which is the quietest and the most common: a bouquet on the porch or inside the front door before the other person gets home from work.