To pack and ship your flowers, you will need:
- A styrofoam cooler larger than your bouquet
- Large plastic trash bag
- Packaging material. Newspaper, tissue paper, or styrofoam
packing peanuts
- Packaging tape
- A frozen coolant block or coolant gel pack (similar to
ones that keep items cool in lunch boxes)
If a coolant block is not available, you
can make a cool pack.
Take two large zip lock bags and put one inside the other.
Fill the inside bag with ice cubes and seal. Take paper towels
and add to the sides of the second bag and seal. Put these in
the freezer until you are ready to pack your flowers for shipment.
- Tape your coolant block, gel bag, or ice cube bags to the
bottom of the styrofoam cooler with packaging tape. Make sure
they are secure.
- Now make a "nest" the size of your bouquet on
top of the refrigerant using crumpled newspaper or tissue
paper.
- Remove the bouquet from the refrigerator, keeping it inside
of the plastic bag and place it in the nest with the flowers
facing up.
- Fill the styrofoam cooler to the top with the packing peanuts
or more crumpled newspaper or tissue paper.
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Important - make sure you provide your name, address,
and telephone number on a piece of paper and tape it to the inside
of the styrofoam cooler. If you have not already provided a deposit
by phone you must include check, money order, or credit card information
with your flowers. Checks should be made out to Preserved Petals.
We can not begin the preservation process without the required
deposit amount of $125.
Close the cooler and seal it with packaging tape. Write "THIS
SIDE UP" on top of the box and "FRAGILE" on each
side with a marking pen as large as possible. The shipping address
is:
Preserved Petals
600 Kenrick Drive
Suite A10
Houston, Texas 77060
If you have not already done so, call us to let us know your
flowers are on the way.
Priority Shipping
It is imperative that you overnight your bouquet to Preserved
Petals. We recommend overnight express mail from the U.S. Post Office,
but you may use UPS, FedEx, or any priority overnight shipper as
long as they guarantee delivery no later than 2pm the next day.
Selection of Display and Final Payment
Once your bouquet is on it's way to us, you have four weeks to make
your decision on the display. We will be happy to advise you on
what will work best with your flowers. Once a display decision is
made the balance is due on your order.
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