Designs by Carol

Day 3 of my flowers and I still love them. They were delivered the hour my husband had requested so they were waiting for me when I arrived after my graduation ceremony. The bouquet is beautiful. I recommend their services. I’m not sure if the company is one person, Carol, or many, but hat tip to the floral designer. The arrangement was simple and elegant – my favorite style.

My son, who is in the military stationed in GA, ordered flowers for me for Mother’s Day and the order went to Designs by Carol. I can’t tell you enough good things — delivery was excellent, the flowers absolutely gorgeous, and the arrangement was beautifully done! I felt I had to call them personally to thank them and did — and thank you again, Designs by Carol — these flowers really helped make this a special and memorable day!

About a week ago, I received a beautiful arrangement for my birthday from my best friend in Hawaii through Designs by Carol. It was a nice and full arrangement that included purple and pink roses, mums, alstromeria &liatris with just enough greens around the base to keep everything together. Most of the time when I receive flowers, the vase is stuffed with greens & a smattering of flowers just for color. Needless to say I was immediately impressed with the value of the arrangement. A week later, they still look perfect, even the roses, which are usually first to die out, which means someone took the proper care to hydrate the flowers when they arrived at the shop. I’m pretty picky when it comes to flower arrangements, mostly because I’ve been on the other side of the counter, so to speak, for over 15 years myself, and so it takes a lot to impress me. I can honestly say that the flowers that I received from Designs by Carol truly made my birthday that much more special.

The flowers were sent by a friend as a thank you. The Christmas arrangement is gorgeous with a variety of flowers and beautiful from all sides. All the flowers are in great condition, no wilted edges, etc. Three days later the four burgundy roses are even more open and the petals look like velvet. So often roses never even open. I live a half hour away and was surprised they delivered where I live.

Beautiful arrangement. The flowers arrived to the hospital (ordered via Groupon for 1800 flower). They arrangement far exceeded our expectations. One small typo on the card, but not the biggest deal. Overall, if were ever near this hospital again, I would not hesitate to use their services myself.

I received Mother’s Day flowers ordered by my husband twice from them. Their flowers were the prettiest and they lasted more than a week and they will last one more week. I enjoyed blooming roses at their arrival on Mother’s Day. As roses died gradually, lilies started to bloom and filling up the space after taking roses out. Mums and purple carnations stayed healthy for a week and they are showing no sigh of drying out. I enjoyed their flower for a long period of time last year and this year was every better. It was so cleverly designed with gorgeous color coordination.
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They charged $ 20.99 for service charge.
We live in Glenview IL and so I was shocked when they came from Mundelein.
Very fresh, long lasting, great color, and two stage of blooming different flowers.
Highly recommended.

I agree with Bob, I wish there was a lower rating. I was sent a flower arrangement with a get well balloon even though it was supposed to be a thank you balloon for admin day. When I called the store I was informed by the very flip woman who answered the phone that they were the premier florist for 1−800− flowers. She thought the balloon mistake was very amusing. She said the correct one would be sent the next day. I also discovered that there was supposed to be a box of chocolates with the delivery. I called back the following day and was told that just couldn’t make it out today and could they bring it the next week. It has now been a solid week and I still do not have the balloon or the chocolates. I wouldn’t recommend this florist to anyone ever!

If they gave a lower rating I would use it.
I ordered flowers for my fiancée that included a teddy bear. They took all day to deliver them and hen did not deliver the teddy bear so I called 1800 Flowers. They assured me the bear would be delivered the next day which was a Sunday. NO such luck. I then called 1800Flowers who could not each the florist. My fiancée called the florist direct but got an answering machine.
I would not recommend this florist to my worse enemy.
1800Flowers needs to drop this florist.

I received a teddy bear flower arrangement by Carol that was just beautiful along with some delicious chocolates ordered by my daughter for my birthday. They are still alive 11 days later and I will cherish the teddy bear as a keepsake. Thank you Carol for your creativity.

Overall, unreliable delivery and flowers die quickly!
My boyfriend wasn’t able to be with me on my birthday so he ordered me flowers to be delivered. He went through 1−800-Flowers and put an order in for one dozen red roses to be delivered on my birthday, the 26^th. He called me around 7pm and asked if anything special had come. I had no idea what he was talking about. He then told me that he had ordered flowers that should have been delivered. He looked into the tracking information and they said that a delivery attempt had been made. This is completely false, as someone had been home all day and no one had tried ringing the doorbell or knocking. It had been snowing on and off that day but the roads were in no way unmanageable. The next day, a delivery person rang the doorbell and delivered the flowers. I asked him why they were not delivered on the 26^th. He said he was just the delivery person and if I had a problem with anything that I should call the business.
Delivery problems aside, the flowers did not even last 4 days! Very disappointed with this business. I would expect much higher quality from a florist… Especially at the price charged…