7 Best Flower Delivery Services of 2025, Tested and Reviewed
- Urban Stems The Sanctuary
UrbanStems is the kind of flower delivery service that makes you want to gift yourself bouquets more often. I first received one as a gift and loved it so much that I started using it myself. The Mother's Day Collection is designed with elegance, like the Sanctuary, a sand-toned bouquet of white roses, mini hydrangea, and snapdragon flowers. I'm also a fan of the company’s collaboration with Vogue: The Flora is a rainbow arrangement of roses, ranunculus, and anemone flowers, in a striped ceramic vase. The Brillance is a sunshine garden, and the Hope leans into monochromatic white, accented with greenery.
Most bouquets arrive in bud form and should last well over a week. UrbanStems also lets you add “thoughtful extras” like chocolate truffle boxes, candles, and organic lube. They offer same-day delivery in DC, NYC, LA, Chicago, Miami, Dallas, and Boston on orders placed before noon local time; and their subscriptions (weekly, biweekly, or monthly) start at $60 per delivery.
- 1-800 Flowers & Magnificent Roses
1-800-Flowers is the Amazon of flower delivery—in the sense that there’s almost nothing they don’t offer, including gift sets that aren’t flowers: food baskets, puzzles, and apparel (to name a few). The search filters are fun to browse; I like how they categorize their inventory by interests and hobbies. Is your partner a Disney adult? Disney’s Belle Red Roses ($70) might be the move. Are they obsessed with the late Betty White? There’s a bouquet for that.
In terms of actual flowers, my Contemporary Hot Pink Roses arrived vibrant but … leaking. This is an obvious downside of flowers shipped in water. While the variety here is unmatched, the quality is decent at best. That said, they’re one of the few services that let you personalize vases, and that’s fun. 1-800 Flowers also sells preserved Magnificent Roses, which last about a year with proper care.
Side note: A few years ago, I sent my boyfriend the Valentine’s Love Explosion Cake Gift Box. It comes with a mini red velvet cake and a pop-up of fake roses that quite literally explode out of the box. He still has the box, and you get to have some pretty solid cake.
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