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How it works

10 guides on How it works, from choosing flowers to getting them placed.

Remembering From Afar

The First Year After a Death: The Dates That Will Hurt, and What to Do at Each

A calendar for the first year of grief: the birthday, the holidays, the first visit, the anniversary. What each date tends to feel like and one concrete thing to do at the grave for each.

September 24, 2026

How it works

Who Places the Flowers? How BloomBridge Runners Are Vetted

A stranger will walk up to your family's grave with the flowers. Here is who that person is, what they go through before their first delivery, and what happens on the day.

September 24, 2026

Planning & How-To

One Delivery or a Plan? How to Choose Dates for Flowers at a Grave

Single delivery, one a year, or a seasonal schedule: how families decide, which dates they pick, and how to build a year of flowers at a grave that runs without anyone remembering.

September 24, 2026

How it works

The Memorial Page: Where Every Delivery Photo Lives, and How Families Use It

Every BloomBridge delivery adds a photo to a memorial page for the grave. What is on it, who can see it, how to share it with family who cannot travel, and how it works alongside Find a Grave.

September 24, 2026

What to Put on a Grave

What to Write on the Card With Flowers for a Grave

Short, specific and in your own voice. Messages for a parent, a spouse, a child, a friend's loved one, a birthday, an anniversary and the holidays, with examples you can use as they are or change.

September 24, 2026

Remembering From Afar

Sending Flowers to a Grave for a Friend: When Their Loved One's Grave Is Far From You Both

How to send flowers to the grave of a friend's parent, spouse or child, what information you need, what to write, and why the delivery photo should go to your friend.

September 23, 2026

Remembering From Afar

What to Do With Funeral Flowers After the Service

What to do with funeral flowers after the service: the casket spray, what to leave at the grave, how to dry or press them, and where to give the rest.

September 23, 2026

Remembering From Afar

When You Can't Visit a Grave: Seven Ways to Care for It From Far Away

Distance, health, cost or time keep many people from the graves they care about. Practical ways to tend a grave you cannot get to, from remote flower placement to photos, records and cleaning.

September 22, 2026

Remembering From Afar

A Sympathy Gift After the Funeral: What to Send When the Flowers Have Stopped

The hardest weeks of grief come after the funeral, when the support fades. Thoughtful sympathy gifts for a month, three months or a year later, including flowers placed at the grave.

September 22, 2026

Planning & How-To

Can You Have Flowers Delivered to a Grave?

Yes. Here is how graveside flower delivery works, who actually places the flowers, what it costs compared with a florist, and how you know they arrived.

September 21, 2026