Florists are generally very professional when it comes to helping the customer with ordering flowers for funerals and are ready to help. They may have binders of designs to look through with pricing for your particular wants or needs.
You can purchase flowers for a funeral at your local florist shop. You can also purchase flowers for a funeral at teleflora. They have an online store where you can order flowers for a funeral.
Most local florists will provide the delivery of flowers to a funeral home for a funeral. If you do not live in the area where the funeral is being held, you can order flowers through 1-800-Flowers or through FTD and request delivery.
Funeral flowers can be ordered from nearly any florist. Search categories of "sympathy" or "funeral". You can also order funeral flowers from an overall flowers website such as: http://www.ftd.com/sympathy-funeral-ctg/occasion-sympathy/?noparent_bread=1. These websites deliver to nearly anywhere and work with local florists in the area of delivery. Here's the website for a local florist in Madison, WI: http://www.georgesflowers.net/madison-florist/sympathy-funeral-flowers-87c.asp?topnav=LeftNav
Italian traditional funeral flowers
Try local flower stores or online flower sites that do deliveries - any of the above will work for a funeral.
One can purchase appropriate flowers for a funeral from a local flower shop. Even if the funeral is in another area the florist can have the order done by a florist in that area. One can also order flowers from many different florists on line as well as through their toll free numbers.
Silk flowers or artificial flowers will be just fine. Not only can they be more expensive than fresh cut flowers or arrangements but will of course last longer.
That's always a personal decision. I sent flowers to my exs funeral.
The cast of Flowers for a Funeral - 2010 includes: Suelynn Gustafson as Lily
Funeral flowers are usually sent as a gift to the deceased's family. Most flower shops will understand when one mentions the flowers are for a funeral and perhaps provide some sort of discount.
Yes, unless the family requests otherwise, flowers are sent to the funeraL home where the wake service takes place. They are then brought to the cemetery after the Funeral Mass, and placed by the body.
Yes, flowers can be brought to a funeral for an AOG funeral service. I attend an AOG church and I've been to two or three funerals which have had flowers. There's no "religous reason" not to have them. Flowers look lovely and make the scene look more cheerful.