Anniversary flowers in Wichita

If a restaurant is in the plan, understand what Wichita restaurants are. These are independents and local rooms, not hotel operations with a bell desk and a staging closet. Larkspur and Public at the Brickyard in Old Town, The Anchor and Old Mill Tasty Shop on East Douglas, Georges French Bistro on East Central, Chester's Chophouse & Wine Bar on North Webb, Newport Grill at Bradley Fair and Scotch & Sirloin on East Kellogg will all generally accept a bouquet on the host stand if it arrives in the quiet window between lunch and dinner service, roughly three to five in the afternoon, and if someone has called first. What they cannot reliably do is hold an arrangement through a busy Friday service and produce it at the right table at the right moment. The plan that never fails in this city is simpler: send the flowers to the house in the morning. The recipient sees them before they get dressed, the vase is already in water, and nobody spends dinner watching the door. Hotels are the exception. The Ambassador Hotel on South Broadway in the old Union National Bank building, the Drury Plaza Hotel Broadview on West Douglas overlooking the river, the Hyatt Regency by Century II, the Hotel at WaterWalk, the Courtyard on the Old Town side and the Wichita Marriott off East Kellogg all have a front desk that takes deliveries — but the guest name must match the reservation exactly, and the delivery should land on the check-in day rather than the night before.