When people do go out, they go to a small and knowable set of places, and that makes the logistics simple rather than grand. Old Town's Main Street is the dinner district: the old McCrory's counter, where nine Friendship Junior College students were arrested in 1961 for sitting down to order, serves dinner again today, Legal Remedy Brewing is a few blocks away on Oakland Avenue, and The Pump House looks out over the Catawba from the Riverwalk side. Across the river in Fort Mill, the Anne Springs Close Greenway carries a couple of thousand acres of trail and water and hosts a great many weddings, so a fair number of Rock Hill anniversaries are anniversaries of a day spent there. Glencairn Garden, the azalea garden that the Come-See-Me Festival revolves around every April, is the other local marker couples date themselves by. None of those are places to have flowers delivered without asking first — a restaurant table drop needs the restaurant's agreement, and in a district this small the host will simply tell you yes or no on the phone. The more reliable version is to have the arrangement at the house in the afternoon and let it be waiting when you get back from dinner, which also means nobody carries a vase around Main Street for two hours.
The other half of this page is long marriages, and they change what you should send. Rock Hill and the surrounding York County countryside hold a lot of couples on their fortieth, fiftieth and sixtieth, and a golden-anniversary delivery is frequently going to a retirement community — Westminster Towers on India Hook Road being the one Rock Hill address that comes up most — or to a house in Newport, Ebenezer or out toward Lesslie where the couple has lived for decades. For those, height and scent are the wrong ambitions. A compact arrangement that fits a side table without being moved, or a planted piece that keeps going for months, beats a tall vase that has to be watered daily by somebody with arthritis. Independent-living and assisted-living buildings route deliveries through a front desk, so the apartment number and the resident's full name matter more than the building name. If adult children are ordering from out of state for parents' anniversary — and on this page they often are — the most useful thing you can add is a phone number for a neighbour or a sibling who is actually in town, because a delivery attempt to an empty house in the middle of a weekday is the commonest failure mode we see here.