Dear Queenie,
After my father’s funeral some of the guests picked up the flowers they had sent to take them home. When I asked what was going on they said the flowers belonged to them because they had paid for them.
Queenie, were they right or were they very very rude?—Floral Etty Ket
Dear Etty Ket,
They were so far out of line that I cannot think of an appropriate word to describe it.
When a person sends flowers to someone for any kind of special occasion, be it a birthday or a funeral or whatever, the flowers, like any other gift, become the property of the recipient. Period. End of story!
