Sending flowers
8 guides on Sending flowers, from choosing flowers to getting them placed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
BloomBridge News
BloomBridge and Find a Grave: The Flower Delivery Button on Every U.S. Memorial
Find a Grave added a Flower Delivery button to memorials for burials in the United States. It brings you to BloomBridge with the grave location already filled in. How the partnership came about and how it works.