You are probably deciding this with a phone in your hand, in a week you did not plan for, maybe from another city, and maybe with a sibling texting you a different opinion. Nobody has done this often enough to know what is right. So here is what the choice actually involves, what each option costs, and how it gets to the service on time.

What to send for a mother, in plain terms

There are three real decisions, and the rest is detail.

  • Where it will stand. A standing spray or a wreath is meant to be seen by the room, on an easel near the casket. An arrangement in a vase is meant to be close, on a table, and it goes home with the family afterward.
  • Who it is from. Immediate family usually sends the casket piece. Everyone else sends a standing piece or an arrangement, and there is no rule that says yours has to be the largest.
  • What she would have picked. This is the one that matters and the one nobody asks. White and ivory read as traditional and calm. Soft pink and lavender read as warm and personal. If she had a color she wore or grew in her garden, use that. It will mean more to the people who knew her than any convention.

The word on it is the whole piece

Most of what we build for a mother is a lettered wreath, and the word is what the room reads from the back row. MOM is the one people expect. It is not the only one we make. We letter ABU, ABUELA, ABUELITA, MAMI, MAMA, NANA and whatever the grandchildren actually called her, in English or in Spanish, because in Miami those are often two different words in the same family.

One order we built recently was two wreaths for the same service, sent by the grandson. One said MOM, from his mother. The other said ABU, from him. That is not unusual here and it is worth knowing before you decide, because each branch of a family often sends its own.

The pieces, and what each one is for

Every piece below is in stock and delivered by our own team in Miami-Dade. If you want a word on it that is not listed, ask, because the lettering is made to order.

There are around fifty pieces in the full funeral flowers collection if none of these is her.

If you saw one you liked, send us the picture

Losing a mother does not have a price, and we do not expect anyone to shop a list at a moment like this. If you saw a piece somewhere, in a photo, at another service, anywhere, send us the image and tell us what you can spend. We build you something in that spirit at that number. That conversation takes two minutes and it is the way most of these orders actually start.

Getting it there on time is the part that goes wrong

Services do not wait. We deliver to Miami funeral homes and we call the home first to confirm the viewing hours and where they want it set, because a piece that arrives during the service is a piece nobody sees. If you are handling this from out of state, you do not need to coordinate any of that. Tell us the funeral home and the time and we take it from there. More on how that works on our funeral home delivery page.

The ribbon, the lettering and the card

A sash on a standing piece usually says Mother, Mom, Abuela, or the name the grandchildren used. Send us the words exactly as you want them to read and we print them that way, in any language and with the right accents, because this is not a place where a spelling mistake can be fixed afterward. If you would rather it be handwritten, say so and it will be.

If you cannot be there

We photograph the piece when it is finished and send it to you before it leaves the studio, and again at the funeral home once it is placed. People who are grieving from another city tell us this is the part they did not know they needed.

Order it

Tell us the funeral home, the date and the time, or call (305) 562-4900 and a person will pick up. Same day delivery in Miami-Dade on weekday orders placed before 4 PM and Saturday before 1 PM. If you are not sure what to choose, say so on the phone, because we have this conversation every week and it is a reasonable thing not to know.