Fifty euro is the figure most people have in mind, and no flower site is built around it, because delivery is added after you have chosen. Here is what each service leaves for the flowers once its charge comes off the top.
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Who has real options under the line
Ordered by whether a bouquet and its delivery charge together still come in under fifty euro. Add the two money columns yourself: that sum is the whole exercise.
Online florist
Flowers Direct
Fits inside fifty euro, and you can prove it beforehand.
The company makes up and sends the order itself, so what arrives should match what you saw on the page.
From
€39.95
Delivery
€8.95
Standard 8.95 for same day, next day and scheduled; guaranteed AM or PM 15.95 in Dublin and Wicklow
Same day
16:00
Dublin, Wicklow, Kildare, Meath, Louth. Dublin by 4pm; Wicklow by 12pm; Kildare, Meath and Louth by 11am
Next day
15:30
Monday to Saturday
Delivers
Saturday and Sunday to Dublin; Saturday only in selected Wicklow, Kildare, Meath and Louth areas
6 days nationwide, 7 days in Dublin; deliveries between 9am and 7pm
Figures read from each service's own delivery pages. "Not published" means the service does not state a figure, so you only see it at checkout.
Where the fifty euro goes
Start at the ceiling and work down. A flat delivery charge takes roughly a fifth of a fifty euro budget before anyone buys a single stem. What is left has to cover the flowers, the wrapping, the card, the labour of making the thing up and the margin on all of it. Somewhere around twenty to twenty-five euro of actual flower is a realistic expectation, which is why a fifty euro bouquet looks like a good supermarket bunch with better wrapping and a better shape.
That is not a swindle. Someone arranged it, someone drove it, and both of those are real work. But it does explain the gap between the photograph and the doorstep, and it explains why the difference between a forty euro bouquet and a sixty euro one is larger than twenty euro of flowers would suggest: the fixed costs are the same, so the extra twenty goes almost entirely into stems.
Two services on this page dodge the arithmetic in opposite directions. One charges nothing to deliver, so the full budget goes into flowers, at the cost of them arriving flat and closed. The other leaves the widest gap under the ceiling but publishes no delivery charge at all, so you cannot do this sum until you are at checkout. Both are defensible. Neither is what the product page tells you.
The fair comparison nobody makes
For fifty euro you could also buy three supermarket bouquets across three weeks, or one very good bunch from a market stall with change for a bottle of wine. Roughly ninety-five percent of cut flowers sold in Ireland are imported, and the same growers supply both ends of the trade. The stems in a fifty euro delivered bouquet are usually better handled and more carefully chosen; they are not from a different world.
So the question is not which flowers are better. It is whether you need someone else to carry them. If you will see the person this week, buy the bunch yourself and spend the delivery charge on the flowers. If the address is three counties away and the day is fixed, fifty euro delivered is a reasonable price for solving a problem you cannot otherwise solve.
Making fifty euro go further
Worth doing
Order the day before. Express and guaranteed windows come straight out of the flower budget.
Pick a service that publishes its charge, so the whole fifty is visible before you commit.
Choose one flower in season rather than a mixed bouquet; it looks more expensive than it is.
Say what the occasion is in the notes. A florist filling a modest order will often place it better if they know.
Not worth doing
Adding a vase. It is usually the dearest few euro on the page.
Adding chocolates or a bear, which eat the flower budget for something bought better elsewhere.
Buying roses in the fortnight around Valentine’s Day, when the same money buys half as many.
Paying for a three hour window on a delivery to a house where somebody is in all day.
If fifty is a ceiling rather than a target, thecheapest delivered bouquets page ranks by total cost instead, and thefee table shows every published charge with the date it was read.
Questions people ask
Can you get flowers delivered in Ireland for under 50 euro?
Yes, but the list is shorter than the bouquet prices suggest. Four services publish a cheapest bouquet under fifty euro; only one of those still fits under fifty once its own published delivery charge is added, and two of them do not publish a delivery charge at all. The letterbox option fits comfortably because delivery is free on weekdays.
How much of a 50 euro order is the delivery?
Where a flat charge is published, roughly a fifth of it, before anyone has bought a stem. That is the single most important thing to know when you set a ceiling: fifty euro spent is not fifty euro of flowers, and comparing bouquet prices alone will mislead you every time.
Is a 50 euro delivered bouquet better than a 20 euro supermarket one?
It is bigger and it is arranged, and roughly half of what you paid went on service rather than stems. Around ninety-five percent of cut flowers sold in Ireland are imported, and supermarket and florist stock often pass through the same auctions. If you can hand the flowers over yourself, a supermarket bunch at five to twenty euro is not the poor relation people assume.
What should I expect for fifty euro?
A hand-tied bouquet of a dozen to twenty stems, wrapped and delivered, usually without a vase. Expect seasonal filler rather than a bouquet of one expensive flower. If you want roses specifically, fifty euro buys fewer of them than the photographs imply, and fewest of all in the fortnight around Valentine’s Day, when red roses cost the trade more than at any other point in the year.
Does a bigger budget buy better flowers or just more of them?
Mostly more of them, up to about seventy euro. Above that you start paying for the arranging rather than the stems, and for flowers that are harder to source. If the aim is to make an impression on a budget, order a smaller bouquet of one good flower rather than a large mixed one.