Corporate gifts in Chicago: lavender for the team, a box for the client
Corporate gifts in Chicago can stay in one colour from the front desk to the last desk on a floor. Lavender comes in three forms here: spray roses in smaller and larger bunches, peony roses, and the Lavender Smoothie bouquet. With the colour already settled, what's left to choose is the size and the format that fits the address and the person receiving it.
A round box for the front desk, a bag the client carries out
A client or partner whose office has no vase is better served by something that doesn't need one. Lavender spray roses also come as roses in boxes, set in a round box that stands on its own without any container, which suits a front desk or a conference table just as well. For a wider mix instead of a single colour, there's 25 Mixed Roses in a Box.
For someone who will carry the gift out of the building rather than leave it behind, Bag of Joy holds the bouquet upright inside a bag with handles, so a client walks out holding a bag rather than an armful of loose stems.
Where flowers aren't the whole gift, or sit alongside them, a cheese or fruit basket or a box of macarons needs no water at all; the savoury and sweet options are under gift baskets.
Chicago's January cold does more damage on the short walk from a car to a lobby than anything indoors, and how winter and summer here treat a bouquet is covered on Flowers in Chicago. A client at a Gold Coast hotel is no different from one in an office tower: the box still goes to whoever is at the desk. That's the shortcut for corporate gifts in Chicago that don't need a vase at all.
A department kept to one colour works as a gift that lands on every desk at once. Each person gets the same small bunch of lavender spray roses and a card with their own name on it, and a printed message on the card costs nothing extra.
Someone being thanked, a departing colleague, a manager or a person marking an anniversary calls for more than a matching bunch. A larger bundle of the same lavender spray roses, or the peony roses, reads as more than another desk arrangement, and Lavender Smoothie works the same way without needing its contents spelled out.
Other colours suit a team that isn't keeping to lavender for everyone. Chicago's calendar brings its own dates in spring and toward the end of the year, worth checking before a batch goes out for a whole floor.
The courier needs the company name and the floor. Where access control sends every delivery through reception, the florist notes who signed for it, so the sender knows the batch arrived.
Several bouquets for different addresses in one order go out as a batch, with delivery charged per address rather than once for the whole order. A batch note up front lists the company name and floor for each stop. Delivery is free in the centre and charged at a flat zone rate elsewhere.
The florist photographs the finished order before the courier leaves, so an office manager can check a batch against the photo before it's on its way. A company can ask for an invoice, pay by bank transfer and receive closing documents on request, and regular orders can be covered by a contract.
A box for the front desk is the place to start, kept to lavender like the rest of the order, with Chicago's roses nearby for a different colour. Add gifts to go with bouquets — sweets, a card — when the gift should feel a little larger than a bunch of flowers.