Sample Box
The Sample Box: Try Before You Commit
Ordering a full wedding suite or a room of arrangements sight-unseen is a two-hundred-dollar guess. The sample box turns that guess into a decision: eight swatches covering every material family we sell, priced as an impulse, and the fee comes back as credit on your next order. Feel first, then commit.
Eight swatches. Three material families. One small box.
Your first sample box ships at 20% off — the same offer you will see at the top of this site, stated once, in one voice.
Why we sell samples before suites
Artificial flowers live or die on two things you cannot judge from a photo: how the petal feels between your fingers and how the color reads in your own light. A listing can name the material and show a daylight swatch, but your bridesmaid dress, your linen table runner and your living-room wall are the real referees. The sample box puts all three of our material families in your hands for less than the cost of a single arrangement stem bundle.
This is also how our own quality talk stays honest. We can write that a real-touch foam bloom reads convincing at half a meter — and then you can check the exact claim against the exact swatch, in your own kitchen, under your own bulbs. If a material ever fails that test, it fails for you at sample-box price, not at suite price.
What is in the box
Eight swatches total — counted, listed, and cross-checked against the card inside the box. The exact per-family split is printed on that card, and the count below is the count you receive.
- Silk-blend fabric petals — the cloth-over-wire family used across our everyday decor tiers
- Real-touch foam blooms — the soft-touch family behind our bridal pieces
- PE molded greenery and leaves — the leaf and filler material we hold to the same tier as the blooms it ships with
- A printed card naming every swatch and its material family, so nothing in the box is a mystery
The credit, in plain terms
- Your first sample box ships at 20% off the list price.
- The fee you pay for the box is credited toward your next order of $99 or more — the flower budget wins either way.
- The credit applies once, at checkout, when the follow-up order crosses $99.
- One credit per household; the box itself is not returnable (it is a consumable starter item), but anything that arrives damaged is replaced free.
See the box before you buy it
An unboxing set ships with this page: the box opened on camera, each swatch held at three distances — across the room, at arm’s length, up close — next to the printed card, and a single stem photographed in natural daylight against a plain card for tone reference. The photos on this page will be our own bench shots, not styled stock, and the piece count in every frame will match the checklist above.
The cheapest way to decide is to decide with your hands
Order the box, feel all three families, and put the credit toward whichever line wins. Matching a palette for a wedding? Start from the wedding color collections and let the swatches confirm the shortlist.
Frequently asked questions
Is the sample box returnable?
The box itself is not returnable — it is a consumable starter item that ships at 20% off and pays itself back as credit on your next order over $99. The protection runs the other way: if any swatch arrives damaged or a count is short, send a photo within 7 days of delivery and the piece is replaced free. At box price, a return shipment would cost more than the item, and we would rather spend that on replacing things than on postage.
How fast does the sample box arrive?
The box rides the same shipping ladder as every other order: 1-3 business days of processing at our bench, then 7-10 business days of carrier delivery on the standard tier. At box weight it sits in the lowest rate tier. If you are deciding materials for a dated event, order the box first and leave at least two weeks of buffer before your date — the credit carries no expiry pressure, but event calendars do. Full timing and rate tables are on the shipping and delivery page.
How does the $99 credit work?
Pay for the sample box now. When you later place an order of $99 or more, the box fee comes off that order at checkout — automatically, once. The discount and the credit are separate: the 20% off applies to the box itself when you buy it; the credit refunds the box fee against your next qualifying order. One credit per household, and the $99 threshold is measured on the follow-up order’s subtotal before shipping.
Which materials will I actually receive?
Eight swatches spanning the three families this store sells: silk-blend fabric petals, real-touch foam blooms, and PE molded greenery. The card inside the box names each swatch and its family, and the counts printed there are the counts in the box. We list materials by family rather than by marketing name because that is the split that matters at your table — cloth, soft-touch foam, and molded plastic each behave differently in hand, in light and in a photograph.