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Congratulations flowers are bought in a hurry, usually on the day the news lands — an offer accepted, results out, a baby born, a first flat. This section holds more than two hundred designs made for exactly that: hand-tied bouquets from £39, congratulations roses, balloon sets from £15, gift baskets and orchids, all of it available for same-day delivery across London when the order is placed by 22:00.
Congratulations Roses, and What Colour to Choose
Roses are what most people type when they go looking for this, and it is the largest single group in the section — around fifty rose designs, from a modest hand-tie to hundred-stem work, starting at £47. The reason roses hold this job is that they read as effort. A rose bouquet says the sender stopped and chose something rather than sending the first thing on the page.
Colour is where people hesitate, so here is the plain version. Red reads as romance in Britain almost regardless of context, so it belongs to an engagement and rarely to a promotion. Pink is the safe congratulations colour — warm, celebratory, no second meaning. Peach and coral are the ones florists reach for when the good news is professional: they photograph beautifully on a desk and nobody misreads them. White and ivory suit a new home or a christening, and mixed brights suit exam results and anything to do with children.
Stem count matters less than people think, and size matters more. A dozen roses on a small kitchen table is a bigger gesture than fifty crammed into an office kitchen with one vase. If the flowers are going to a workplace, choose the medium size and let the design carry it. The full rose range, including single-colour and mixed bouquets, sits in rose bouquets.
Flowers and Balloons in One Delivery
Congratulations is the one occasion where a balloon is not childish. Roughly sixty balloon items sit in this section alongside the flowers — helium number balloons, foil sets, chrome and latex bouquets — and they can travel with a bouquet in the same delivery rather than as a second order.
Two things worth knowing before you combine them. Helium sets are inflated in the studio on the morning of delivery, so they need to be ordered with the flowers rather than added afterwards; and number balloons only make sense when there is a number in the news — a first anniversary at a company, a twenty-first, a hundredth customer. For a new job or a degree result, a plain foil set in one or two colours does more than a numeral.
Sets aimed at children, including character and animal designs, live separately in kids and fun balloons; the grown-up range is in balloon bouquets. Chocolate, a bottle or a vase can be added to any bouquet at the basket and wrapped as one gift — that is what hampers does.
What to Send for Each Kind of Good News
The occasion changes the right answer more than budget does.
A new job or a promotion. Sent to the office in most cases, which means the recipient has to carry it home on a train. Choose a compact hand-tie or an arrangement in a basket rather than a tall wrapped sheaf, and skip the heavily scented flowers — lilies and hyacinths are unkind in an open-plan room. Peach, coral and soft yellow do the job.
Exam results and graduation. Bright, cheerful and not too formal — gerberas, mixed seasonal colour, sunflowers in season. If the graduation itself is the event rather than the results day, the dedicated graduation flowers collection is built around ceremony timings and photographs.
An engagement. This is the exception to the red-rose rule above: red is welcome here, and so are peonies and garden roses. Something with weight to it. Our peony bouquets are in this section too, and they are the flower people photograph.
A new baby. Soft colours, low scent, and nothing that needs immediate arranging — new parents do not have a free hand. A bouquet in a box or a basket sits on a surface as it arrives. The new baby flowers collection is put together on exactly that principle.
A new home. Consider a plant or an orchid instead of cut flowers: a house move usually means the vases are still in a box somewhere. Hydrangeas are the other good answer — they fill a room quickly and forgive being left alone for a day. See hydrangea bouquets.
A business milestone. Reception-desk work needs to look right for a week, not a day, which points to an arrangement in a basket or a container rather than a wrapped bouquet. Flower baskets arrive already arranged in water.
Orchids and Plants When You Want It to Last
A bouquet is a moment; a plant is a reminder. For a new office, a new home or a colleague who is unlikely to find a vase, a potted orchid outlives cut flowers many times over — ours start at £25 for a single-stem orchid in a pot, with a peace lily at £19 and larger planted baskets and anthurium designs above that.
Orchids also solve the office problem completely: no water to change, no petals to clear off a desk, nothing to throw away on Friday. A phalaenopsis orchid flowers for two to three months indoors and will do it again the following year if it is left alone in bright indirect light. The full range is in plants and orchids, and there is a section on keeping a potted orchid alive in our flower care guide.
Same-Day Congratulations Delivery Across London
Good news does not wait for a delivery slot, and this is the section where that matters most. Orders placed by 22:00 are delivered the same day across London, seven days a week — Saturdays, Sundays and bank holidays included, with the same range and no weekend surcharge. In central London a three-hour delivery is available, which is what you want when the offer email arrived an hour ago.
Checkout asks for the delivery date rather than a time window. A specific hour, an out-of-hours delivery or a workplace with a fixed post-room time can be arranged — leave it in the order comment or send it on WhatsApp, and we will work to it. Outside London we send hand-tied bouquets by courier across mainland Britain in two to three working days; the designs that travel well are listed on our UK flower delivery page, and balloons and planted baskets are London-only. The delivery rate and the free-delivery threshold are shown in your basket.
Everything in this section is made in our own studio in Bermondsey on the day it goes out, and comes with our freshness promise: if the flowers do not stay fresh for at least three days when the care instructions are followed, send us a photo within those three days and we will replace the bouquet.
Congratulations Flowers — Questions We Get Asked
What flowers say congratulations?
There is no single flower for it in British custom, which is why the choice is open. Pink and peach roses, gerberas, hydrangeas and mixed seasonal bouquets all read as celebration. The two to be careful with are red roses, which read as romance unless the news is an engagement, and white lilies, which most people in Britain associate with funerals and sympathy.
Are congratulations roses always red?
No, and red is usually the wrong choice. Pink, peach and coral roses are the congratulations colours; red belongs to romance and to engagements. If you want the drama of red without the message, a mixed bouquet with red as one colour among several does it safely.
Can I send flowers and balloons together?
Yes — add both to the same order and they arrive as one delivery, with the helium inflated on the morning of delivery. Balloons are a London-only item; they cannot go by courier to the rest of the UK.
How much should I spend on congratulations flowers?
Bouquets in this section start at £39, and most people sending congratulations to a friend or a colleague land between £50 and £100. Larger celebration pieces — peony work, hundred-stem bouquets, planted baskets for a reception desk — run into the hundreds. Spending more on size rarely helps if the flowers are going to an office; spend it on the quality of the design instead.
Can you deliver congratulations flowers to an office?
Yes, and it is one of the most common deliveries we make. Give the company name and the floor or department in the address, and add a phone number for the recipient if you have one. If the building has a post room with fixed hours, say so in the order comment and we will deliver inside them.
How late can I order for delivery today?
Until 22:00, seven days a week, for London addresses — including Sundays and bank holidays. For a delivery within about three hours, order in the morning or early afternoon and choose the central London express option.
Do you deliver congratulations flowers outside London?
Yes, across mainland Britain by courier, in two to three working days. Hand-tied bouquets travel well; balloon sets, planted baskets and anything with wide-open heavy heads stay in London. Order a couple of days ahead if the news has a date attached to it.
How long will the flowers last?
At least three days, guaranteed, and in practice a week or more with the water changed every two days and the stems cut at an angle. A potted orchid flowers for two to three months. Our flower care guide covers each flower type in this section separately.
