time is of the essence!

Detailed shipping information for your fresh flowers.

Be prepared well in advance of your wedding day! The last thing we want is for you to be stressed about your flowers arriving to us in usable shape.

What you’ll need:

  1. Cardboard Box

    • Larger than your bouquet (at least 4” on each side).

  2. Packing material

    • We recommend either crumpled newspaper, crumpled wrapping paper or Styrofoam packing peanuts. Please don’t use bubble wrap, plastic bags or plastic products to package your flowers.

  3. Packing Tape

    • Ordinary packing taped you’d use to seal and ship any other package.

  4. An ice pack

    • A coolant block like the Blue Ice or gel refrigerant coolants that you’d use in a picnic cooler or lunch box will work great.

      If you don’t have one of these coolants readily available, you can “make” one with 2 large ziplock bags, ice and paper towels. Simply fill one ziplock bag with several handfuls of ice as well as handfuls of paper towels. The paper towels will soak up the ice-water when the cubes melt and prevent leaking inside the shipping box. Zip bag 1 shut. Then put the filled zip lock bag inside a second ziplock bag to prevent further leaking and zip that bag shut as well. Voila! Instant ice pack!

      Make sure to put your coolant block in the freezer at least 8 hours before you plan to ship.

  5. Your contact information

    • Please write your name, address, telephone numbers and email address on a piece of paper so we know who your flowers belong to when they arrive. A printout of your purchase confirmation is great!

  6. Any additional items we’ll be using in your preservation

    • Please include any mementoes, photos, invitation(s), program, favors or other special items you’d like included in your keepsake. Make sure you protect these items with cardboard cushioning if necessary and within a plastic bag to keep them dry. These items can also be mailed to us separately.

  7. A DIY packing slip

    • A list all of the items you are enclosing. This way when we receive your items, wewill know exactly what to look for inside the box, upon its arrival, without missing anything. This is VERY IMPORTANT!

Packing your flowers:

It will be necessary for you to overnight ship your bouquet or special flowers to us. We recommend contacting your local shipping carrier to learn when their carriers pick up deliveries, and plan to bring your box as close to deliveries going out as possible. We ask you do this right after you’ve placed the bouquet and coolant block into the shipping box in order to ensure the flowers and coolant block don’t have to remain cool any longer than necessary.

  1. Remove the coolant block from the freezer (or assemble your ziplock bags of ice & paper towels) and tape the coolant securely to the bottom of the empty shipping box with packing tape.

  2. Make a nest for your flowers in the bottom of the box (right on top of and around the coolant) with your crumpled newspaper or packing peanuts.

  3. Remove the flowers from the fridge and place them in that nest. Fill the box to the top with the remainder of packing peanuts or crumpled newspaper, making sure you fill the sides of the box with packing material as well. Just as you would package a gift to send to your friend across the country, the goal is to make sure the bouquet inside the box doesn’t bump around in the box, causing damage. The key is to stabilize the bouquet as much as possible so it will not shift during shipment.

  4. Tape your identification information (name, address, telephone numbers, email address, your DIY packing slip or online receipt INSIDE THE SIDE OF THE BOX.

  5. Close the box and seal it with your packing tape.

OVERNIGHT SHIP Your Bouquet to Our Facility

We recommend that clients take their studio-bound packages to the US Post Office, as the post office has branches convenient to most everyone and their prices are the most reasonable. The post office usually charges around $60-80 to have a standard-sized arrangement or bouquet overnighted to our facility.

Our overnight shipping address (Monday – Friday delivery only) is:

Where the Flowers Are Pressed
1692 Tucker Ave.

Muscatine, IA 52761

Phone number: 1.563.343.1198

Additional important notes regarding shipping: 

  • When selecting priority, overnight shipping – be sure your carrier guarantees delivery by 2:00 pm the next day.

  • If you will be overnighting your flowers for a Saturday or Sunday delivery, please notify us FIRST to ensure someone is here to receive your delivery.

Please call or text us at 1.563.343.1198 if you have ANY questions about the bouquet packing and shipping instructions!