There are many timing factors for The Garden Club of the Back Bay to consider while preparing for wreath week. Perhaps the most complex is the scheduling of our delivery personnel. We deliver over two days, Wednesdays and Thursdays, with two hour delivery windows in the morning, afternoon and evening. We like to have two to a car, a driver (to double park) and a runner (to carry the wreath to its destination.) Our evening slot coincides with rush hour, and so that assignment is less popular with our members than the morning or afternoon time frames. We need cars spacious enough to accommodate our wreaths without crushing. Our favorite destinations are buildings with doormen, who are blessedly always there to accept delivery. Sometimes a car goes back to a home more than once if the customer isn’t there, even though we’ve confirmed time of delivery in advance. We know, life happens, and we just don’t feel comfortable leaving our beautiful creations on a doorstep. Our decorators don’t sign up in advance – we welcome them at any time, and there is room for all at The First Lutheran Church. We do have to schedule our hours with the Church personnel, the wreath and poinsettia drop off with our nursery, grocery and lunch deliveries, and trash pick up. Somehow it all gets done. The beautiful wreath pictured below, loaded with fragile dried flowers, was carefully hand carried home by the owner, so no scheduling was required.
