It's not just you. My heart sinks at the sight of those florist websites. (Although, I think bunches.co.uk is a bit better than the rest - still way spendy of course, and it has its share of ugly squat things, but it also has simple bunches of freesias, or lilies, or carnations, or similar. Aside - where do you stand on the carnation question? I love them. I think they're pretty, and the fact that they last so well can only be a plus. It saddens me that "everybody knows they're crap". Apparently flowers have to be expensive and last 5 minutes to be "good".
And I definitely love both getting and giving flowers. Armin sealed his fate by rocking up on my doorstep the first time he Paid a Call with a big bunch of sunflowers. Roses would have been presumptuous, but sunflowers were just *perfect*.
I like carnations. They're not my favourite flower, but I don't think they're crap; sometimes they can be very pretty. I particularly like the white ones when they are delicately edged with purple.
Your husband is well classy. Sunflowers are awesome.
My favourites are lilies of the valley. My mother always used to give them to me on my name day. I haven't seen them in a long time, actually, not even in Hungary where they are more common.
Carnations: definitely like. They're pretty and last a long time, stroking both my aesthetic and pragmatic sides. Tulips are nice, too.
Bouquets: agreed, typically pukesome. A couple of days before our wedding, it was impressed upon me that the groom _must_ buy the bride flowers or else the world would end through parental-in-law-war. We'd done everything else our way, so decided, unenthusiastically, to keep the peace with flowers. I went to the local florist and couldn't find a single bouquet that I could stomach. As per your experience, they were uniformly awful. And the shop actually expected people to buy them. I ended up getting a wreath, which at least had the quality of looking halfway decent and just averting war.
To your question: I rather like getting flowers, occasionally.
I always feel a bit silly about it, but I love getting flowers. :) And I give flowers to boys (and girls) as well. It's fun. But the best flowers are the ones that get picked in someone's garden, or picked up at a market. Interflora style bouquets are the Mcdonalds of flowers.
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And I definitely love both getting and giving flowers. Armin sealed his fate by rocking up on my doorstep the first time he Paid a Call with a big bunch of sunflowers. Roses would have been presumptuous, but sunflowers were just *perfect*.
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Your husband is well classy. Sunflowers are awesome.
My favourites are lilies of the valley. My mother always used to give them to me on my name day. I haven't seen them in a long time, actually, not even in Hungary where they are more common.
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Tulips are nice, too.
Bouquets: agreed, typically pukesome. A couple of days before our wedding, it was impressed upon me that the groom _must_ buy the bride flowers or else the world would end through parental-in-law-war. We'd done everything else our way, so decided, unenthusiastically, to keep the peace with flowers. I went to the local florist and couldn't find a single bouquet that I could stomach. As per your experience, they were uniformly awful. And the shop actually expected people to buy them. I ended up getting a wreath, which at least had the quality of looking halfway decent and just averting war.
To your question: I rather like getting flowers, occasionally.
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