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Goin to a funeral tommorow?

I need help guys. Im going to a funeral tommorow and I would like to buy some flowers to show my condolences to the family. What color flowers should I get? your help is greatly appreciated

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  • WC
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    Ask the florist, they can guide you.

  • Serena
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Color won't matter as much as type. Most people get mums and carnations. Your florist will have a catalog of appropriate arrangements for you to choose from. I'm going to link you to some floral sites so you can look and see if there is a special arrangement you might prefer. Floral arrangements can be very expensive. When we have a relative or friend of the family who passes away, we usually contribute equally to purchase a nicer arrangement. You might also want to call the funeral home. Sometimes family of the deceased request donations be made to charity in their loved ones name instead of flowers.

  • 1 decade ago

    If you knew the person who is deceased, perhaps they had a favorite flower? As stated numerous times above, asking the professionals at a florists shop is a great way to choose an appropriate arrangement. Give them a price range and a brief explaination of how you knew the deceased and they can point you in the right direction.

    Traditionally, orchids or calalilys are displayed.

  • 1 decade ago

    Find out what their favorite color was or favorite flower and find an arrangement either with that color ar that flower in it.

    If you are not comfortable asking those questions, buy an arrangement - for a man with mainly dark colors - like orange, dark blue, red, bright yellow , and so on and so forth. And for a woman with mainly pastel colors like pink, light blue, white, lilac, and so on and so forth.

    If you aren't sure than a green plant in a nice dish garden or a nice garden basket is always nice.

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  • Kat
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    For a female - pink and white carnations are very with some lilac mixes.

    For a man i would suggest white flowers with some blues and greens mixed in.

    This is what ive seen at funerals anyway.

  • 1 decade ago

    Just call the funeral home and ask them to pick out a funeral arrangement. Tell them your relationship to the deceased and they will help you with the size of the arrangement.

  • 1 decade ago

    You need to go to the Flower shop and they will help you pick out a flower arrangement (by size) that suits how close you were to the deceased.

  • 1 decade ago

    My thought on this one is this: Buy a living plant, or bush or tree of some sort. This is something that the family can bring home and plant in honor of the lost one. When you buy cut flowers, they only shrivel up and die. Just a thought.

  • 5 years ago

    visit a florist and ask for his or her advice. That advice would be based on the age and gender of the guy who died. If a fifteen year boy dies, you do no longer desire to deliver a team of purple carnations. you will in all danger desire to deliver flower that are the colour blue or something like that. In any experience, have the vegetation delievered to the funeral abode, do no longer take them there your self. That way the funeral abode will placed them on show and the relatives will see them devoid of having to tackle the transport. it is the right thank you to do it, no rely form of vegetation or affiliation you go with for. evaluate additionally sending a plant, vs. decrease vegetation. decrease vegetation will fade in a pair of days, yet a plant the relatives can take abode and revel in for months to come again. If no longer years. of course you're able to need to p.c.. a plant whose vegetation are in bloom now. Pastor paintings

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Something pretty, but neither morbid nor flamboyant. Don't buy them as if you were going to for a girl, simply get something classy. Just ask the florist at the store and they'll know exactly what you should get.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    ****Ive seen all kinds of colors at every funeral ive been to****

    ***Just choose a nice arrangement***

    **I dont think colors really matter too much**

    *Unless maybe you knoe the deceased favorite color or flower, then definately go for those*

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