Message Card Ideas – A Personal Touch

There are occasions when you will be ordering flowers and not be able to find the right words for your message card. This is especially the case with love or funerals. As a courtesy, I would search the web, print off several quotations, and had those near the order area for times of need. An indexed binder or folder would be ideal so that you can list several occasions. It was a useful reference when customers called in their order as well. It turned into a weekend project for me, but was much appreciated when someone was struggling with their message. This “extra” personal service is just the kind of thing your customers will remember.

Quotations can easily be found online. A simple search for quotations and/or poems on any search engine will lead you to many helpful sites. Brief meaningful quotes/messages are best because message cards only hold so much. One to three sentences is usually enough. If you really want to make a nice presentation, consider printing the quotations on a quality color specialty paper. If your paper is a heavier stock, it will hold up nicely without putting the pages in sleeves. I would create my pages on a word document and copy and paste any quotations that I wanted to use. Once I had filled a page, I tried to change each quotation to a different font as well as double spaced so that they stand on their own.

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Your friends will enjoy displaying these during the holidays. The Christmas Hologram Bauble, Holly and Berry Card or Golden Bell will brighten up a tree or table. With today’s multicultural society, Susan has included a series of cards designed to celebrate festivals of faith from the Muslim and Jewish calendars, as well as Easter and Kwanzaa.

Some people would be embarrassed to ask for help on their message card. You might just point out that you have a folder there with card ideas and then leave them to fill out their card.

With your experience, you can add messages of your own as well. Don’t forget to include humorous messages as well, not just the serious stuff. Message card suggestions are a special touch that your customers will appreciate.

Romantic Quotes

Sometimes is is difficult to find the right words to express your feelings. Here are some romantic quotations that you could use for the message card with the flowers you send.

• If there ever comes a day When can’t be together keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever. ~ Winnie the Pooh
• The greatest thing you ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. – Nat King Cole
• Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. – Charlie Brown
• Where there is great love, there are always miracles. – Willa Cather (1876-1947)
• Love is like a bed of roses, there are many thorns. The path to true happiness lies in learning to avoid the thorns, while enjoying the roses. – Lillian Carol Russell
• Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be. – Robert Browning
• “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Herman Hesse
• “Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.” – anonymous quotation
• “You’re nothing short of my everything.” – Ralph Block
• “Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.” – Sarah Bernhardt
• My love for you is a journey; Starting at forever, And ending at never. ~ by Anonymous ~
• “If could reach up and hold a star for everytime you made me smile, I would have the whole evening sky in the palm of my hand.” ~ Unknown
• To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. – David Viscott
• If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I’d walk through a garden forever. ~ Author Unknown
• “We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly embracing each other” – Luciano De Crescenzo
• “As I gaze upon your beauty, I think to myself, never have I seen an angel fly so low…” ~ Anonymous
• “When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
• “Real love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach
• A thousand angels dance around you. – Savage Garden, I Knew I Loved You
• Better than I was, more than I am. And all of this happened by taking your hand. – Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, “It’s Your Love” (song)
• All the love that history knows, is said to be in every rose. – Anonymous
• My best chosen friend, companion, guide, to walk through life, Linked hand-in-hand, two equal, loving friends, true husband and true wife. – Sir Charles Gavan Duffy (1816-1903)
• Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice. – Nora Roberts
• I would fly you to the moon and back if you’ll be… if you’ll be my baby. ~ From a song by Savage Garden
• Life began after I fell in love with you. – Unknown
• Within you I lose myself. Without you I find myself wanting to become lost again. – Unknown
• Everyone believes in something eternal, for me, it is my love for you. – Unknown
• With love and patience, nothing is impossible – Daisaku Ikeda

Sympathy Message Suggestions

The loss of a loved one. It is often difficult to find the right words to express your sympathy to someone during this time of sorrow. A floral tribute and supportive message can offer much support to those grieving such a loss. Here we list some suggestions, perhaps to inspire you as you offer your condolences with your floral tribute.

• Our deepest condolences
• With Sympathy
• Our thoughts are with you and your family.
• In Loving Memory
• You are in our thoughts and prayers.
• Fondest remembrances
• Thinking of you and offering you hope and comfort.
• May you find peace and love in the memories you cherish.

In the weeks after…

After the initial outpouring of support, even weeks after the service, encouraging words can provide continued comfort. Consider sending a floral arrangement, a green or blooming plant, or even a gourmet or fruit basket to the family’s home with a supportive message. Here are a few suggestions for you;

• Just wanted you to know you are in my thoughts
• I have been thinking of you
• Hope this brings sunshine to your day
• Let’s get together soon for lunch, give me a call.
• Just as you have been for us, we are always here for you.

Overall, an uplifting and sensitive message is most comforting. Avoid words like “sorry”, “sad” or “I know how you feel”. Messages offering your heartfelt support and friendship with your floral tribute will be appreciated. Your local florist can offer further suggestions about sending a floral tribute.

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