About Bouquets.ie

Ireland has plenty of flower shops and no independent record of what they charge to deliver. Ask a simple question, such as which services can still get flowers to a Cork address this afternoon and what that costs, and the answer is spread across eight delivery pages, several of which decline to give a figure at all. This site exists to sit down with those pages, read them properly, and write down what they say.

What we do and do not do

We are not a florist. We do not take orders, hold stock, arrange anything or have any part in a delivery. If flowers you ordered have not arrived, the service you bought from is who to contact, and their number is on their own site.

We compare the eight national services that deliver to addresses in the Republic of Ireland, and we write about the surrounding subjects that Irish readers actually search for: sympathy etiquette, the Irish date for Mother's Day, what flowers cost at a wedding, how to keep a bouquet alive for a fortnight. We also point at local florists by name where a local florist is plainly the better answer, which happens more often than a comparison site is supposed to admit.

How the figures are checked

Every delivery charge, cutoff time and starting price on this site is read by hand off the service's own published pages: their delivery information, their FAQ, their checkout information page. Nothing is scraped. Nothing is copied from another comparison site. Nothing is averaged from a sample.

Three rules follow from that, and they are worth stating because they are what makes the tables usable:

• Every figure carries a date. The day a person last read that page is printed beside the number, not hidden in a footer. A charge without a date is a rumour.
• Not published means not published. Where a service states no figure, the cell says so. It never carries a typical amount, an estimate or a competitor's number. That gap is itself a finding: three of the eight services we compare publish no standard delivery charge anywhere before checkout.
• We say what we do not know. Where a service is silent on something, or where the published wording is ambiguous, the site says the wording is ambiguous rather than resolving it in anyone's favour.

Figures are re-read on a cycle, and the site warns us in its own build log once a record passes two months old. If you spot a charge that has moved, the fastest way to get it fixed is to tell us. Corrections to figures are the most useful email we get.

How rankings are decided

Order on a comparison page is editorial, it is argued for in the prose beside it, and it is built from published facts: reach, cutoff time, whether a charge exists before checkout, what the cheapest bouquet costs. No service pays to appear, to move up, or to be described a particular way. None of them see a page before it goes up. Where a service does something badly, the page says so, including the ones we link to. How this site makes money sets out the commercial position in full.

Who this is for

Someone in Ireland who needs flowers to arrive somewhere, and who would rather spend five minutes than fifty euro finding out how. Someone dealing with a death notice on RIP.ie who is not sure what is appropriate to send, or whether to send anything. Someone who wants to know whether the delivery charge is worth paying at all, and is willing to be told that sometimes it is not.

If that is you and something here is wrong, unclear, or missing, write to us atthe contact page. The figures are only worth anything if they are right.