Some people think it is more expensive to buy flowers online. Not so! If you are ordering an arrangement to be delivered anywhere but your local city, you have to pay FTD charges if you go into your local flower shop and order the arrangement there. The good thing about buying online is that all the fees are included in the price you see.

Say you want to send flowers to your Aunt Matilda in Omaha. You would normally do one of two things:

1. Go to your local florist and look through a stack of books to pick out a bouquet that is “similar” to the one they will send via an FTD partner in Omaha. Then you give them all the information about Aunt ‘Tildy, and hope they write it down and spell everything correctly. Or,

2. Call information to find flower shops in Omaha, hopefully near ‘Tildy’s house so you do not have to pay the FTD fees. However, you are on hold long distance while they serve customers that are in the shop, and then you have to pick a bouquet without seeing any samples. Once again, you have to hope the person on the phone understood you correctly, wrote everything down, and spelled it correctly, so it actually arrives at the right house with the right name on it!

The much easier answer is to buy your flowers online. You can search by “order flowers online,” or you can use the well-known standards of www.800flowers.com or www.ftd.com. Then, you simply choose to look at arrangements by price or by theme (occasion). Once you pick the arrangement you want to send, you enter your billing informational and Aunt Matilda’s address and phone number. Since you are typing in the information, there is no “middle man” who is writing the information, and there is less chance of an error. If there is an error, it is likely a typing mistake on your part! You can also type in exactly how you want the gift card to read.

Any flower-ordering web site will take you step by step through the process of ordering. You will even find out right then and there is a certain arrangement is not available on the day you want the flowers to arrive. That way there are no surprises, and your Aunt ‘Tildy gets exactly what you sent her!