Flowers by RENI

My fiancé was staying at The Garrison the night before our wedding, and I wanted to have flowers delivered to her the morning of the big day. Despite it being a last minute request, Laura was super helpful. All it took was a simple phone call and she had a beautiful vase of flowers to surprise my fiancé the next morning. It was exactly what I wanted on the biggest day of our lives.

Flowers By Reni designed the bridal bouquets for our May 24^th, 2015 wedding. The bouquets consisted of fresh, beautiful Hydrangeas, roses, and other good stuff. My wife was extremely pleased with the bouquets, and primarily her bouquet, which was the subject of much compliments on our wedding day. From the consultation in February, to the delivery of the bouquets, the Flowers By Reni staff was incredibly helpful, knowledgeable, and kind in making proper design suggestions to not only fit our budget, but also meet our floral needs. I would highly recommend this cute, quaint flower shop in Fishkill. Manager/​designer Caroline McCloskey is such an incredibly kind and sweet lady, with a talented staff. They will go above and beyond to meet your needs.

Flower shop is great. The best flowers and friendliest staff and nice on the eyes too! they really go put of the way to help you pick out the right flowers for the right occasion. love the!

They recently handled my wedding flowers, and I was so pleased! I live out of state, so it was challenging to order flowers by phone/​email. I sent them a picture of the bouquet I wanted, and they were able to create something beautiful and exactly what I wanted. Our center pieces were much more beautiful in person than what the website showed. No complaints!

Last week my boyfriend and I had a Housewarming party and I wanted to add some color to the new place and thought flowers would be a nice touch. I went on Unilocal and look for the nearest florist, which brought me here. The woman who help me was so nice, friendly and beyond helpful. I told the woman i wanted to spend $ 30 on flowers. I told her the colors of the living room and she took 5 minutes and made a gorgeous arrangement of flowers. Jenn, (my personal fruit fly) and I thought the flower arangment was going to be around $ 45. When i asked how much it would come out to be the woman replied, «$ 19.»
I was amazed. I will be using them every other week to keep nice fresh flowers in our home.

I used Flowers By Reni yesterday for Valentine’s Day and they really did a great job with the arrangement that I had sent to my wife. The flowers were big and fresh and they went the extra mile by adding touches that were not shown on the website. I would highly recommend them and use them again.

Expensive, limited selection — works only off the designs on Proflowers per their statement.- will not work with you or create something original PLUS they are owned by the same funeral homes that send you to them for service, so they have no incentive to please. If they do a lousy job, they will not lose business a told to me BY the Funeral Director at Allen in Millbrook. My personal experiences is as follows: I wanted to send Funeral flowers for a deeply beloved family friend 5 days in advance of the viewing & since The Hudson Valley Funeral Homes group who bought out Allen Funeral Homes some time ago link to this florist, I assumed they would be polite and helpful the way Allen’s previous recommends had been over the years. In a word, NO. The woman who took my call was busy talking to somebody else, distracted, rude & was chewing gum while only half-​listening to my requests & needs. Without giving me more than a mere moment to explain what I was looking for, she cut me off in mid-​setence & offered to send between 18 and 32 white carnations for the amount in my budget ($ 100 to $ 200). I tried to get her to work with me but she told me their shop «don’t do anything» but «what Pro-​Flowers lists.» With that grammmar and such enormous discourtesy to a long distance caller, I assumed her to be a teenager, thanked her for a time but told her for that amount of money, I could buy a bouquet and fly there myself on a coach ticket. She merely laughed at me & hung up, not at all concerned that she blew a potential $ 200 direct sale, a portion of which she would NOT have to have forked over to a national Brand. for booking the order. Bad business practices all around but I was hurt because I grew up in Millbrook and Allen Funeral Homes has laid many freinds to rest. I felt the funeral Director should know what kind of lousy florsit he had sent me to and ask him why he wasn’t using the numerous local florists with better reviews and 50+ year histories serving catholic Funerals in Millbrook.
When I mentioned this disoncerting experience to the one Funeral Director who actually answers his phone at Allen Funeral homes, after days of trying to get through, he assured me the gal I spoke to was «Reni herself» (since then, other locals still using Allen explained to me the place has changed hands and that the Funeral Director was likely too new to know or even care that the woman I spoke with was not Reni but simply the current person operating the business for their funeral organization or as a subcontrator). Be that as it may, this Funeral director, who was eating while he spoke with me confirmed that the rude woman was not a teenager but an adult «who acts like a kid and laughs a lot, right?» These were THE FUNERAL DIRECTOR’S WORDS TO ME, not mine! And then he proceeded to imitate her donkey-​braying laughter! Can you imagine? When I told him I thought he might want to know how rude she was and that he might wish to direct mourners elsewhere he said «Oh, that’s fine with me because we OWN that Shop so we’re gonna use her no matter what anyone says.» YIKES! This sure doesn’t sound like the old Allen Funeral Home in Millbrook but apparently now, Profit is king and compassion is crap. The name of the Business is Flowers by Reni and the Funeral Director DID called her Reni, I neitherer know nor care who she actually is since it seems that the original Reni or one of the successive owners sold this shop to this Funeral Conglomerate that has a virtual lock on all the funerals and the flowers sent to them in Millbrook area unless you are smart and get around their attempt to maximize profits.
My advice to mourners who see that link on the Allen page is to SKIP IT & instead use Telefora NOT FTD.
, be sure to specify Flowers By Reni is NOT to be used in your extra instructions She’s not currently on Teleflora’s approved list but is on FTD’s and the controversial Pro Flower’s approved lists (Por Flowers has mixed reviews, often bad when it comes to funerals). Also, why would you spend that kind of money to send a paltry bunch of cheap grocery store flowers all the way from Fishkill to a Formal Viewing in Millbrook, NY? By the time they got there, they could be half dead. Teleflora uses other, geographically closer florists & my arrangement arrived without a hitch. Teleflora was respectful, kind & even honored the Facebook 20% discount code (FBOOK20). For half of what this rude woman wanted for 36 carnations, I got a HUGE Standing Spray set against River Cane in the shape of a large Cross with Dendrobium Orchids, roses, ferns, and much more. Don’t waste your time with this shop. I wouldn’t trust this shop to send Dandelions to a Teddy Bear’s Picnic.

With Valentine’s Day coming up, if you are thinking of ordering flowers, especially roses, Reni is The Place to get them in this area. I received some and they were spectacular! Yes, red roses can be very expensive for February 14^th, but if you are going to go all out for that someone special, then so be it! Broke and happy. :) And they deliver too!