Donate Your Wedding Flowers!

*We are not yet able to accept regular floral donations. However, you are welcome to review the information below for when our nonprofit opens its doors.*

Your wedding flowers are a glorious part of your memorable day, and Random Acts of Flowers (RAF) is grateful to you for considering paying your love forward by donating your flowers! People in our community who are struggling with injury, illness, or loneliness will be uplifted knowing that two people in love chose to include them in their special day.

RAF will work with you to ensure that your flowers are re-purposed into individual arrangements and delivered to patients in a nearby hospital or nursing home. To begin the process of delivering hope and healing through your flowers, please complete RAF’s wedding inquiry form* and a member of our team will be in touch to assist you. Please note that RAF can only coordinate, receive and / or pick-up flowers from public venues during business hours: (TBD, once site is open).

WEDDING DONATION INQUIRY FORM

* PLEASE NOTE – RAF receives many requests and unfortunately cannot accommodate all. Completing the inquiry form does not guarantee that we will be able to pick-up your flowers, but we will do our best!

A GLANCE AT THE PROCESS (ONCE OUR DOORS ARE OPEN)

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

  • RAF will work with you to finalize pick-up details, which includes the completion of our floral donation and agreement forms that must be finalized no less than two weeks prior to pick up
  • If you are able to drop off your flowers at the RAF location that would be so appreciated! If not, RAF will pick up flowers from the venue or florist at a designated time following the event. Please note our business hours (TBD, once site is open).
  • RAF volunteers will deconstruct all arrangements, composting any unusable stems and disposing of ribbons, pins, foam, etc. in the most eco-friendly way
  • Re-purposed bouquets will be hand-delivered to patients in an area healthcare facility within 48 hours

RAF is proud and honored to repurpose wedding/event flowers for people in area healthcare facilities. Once the flowers are brought back to RAF’s workshop, volunteers disassemble arrangements, give all flowers a fresh cut and fresh water. A second group of volunteers use the flowers to create new bouquets, which are then hand-delivered to a person in a healthcare facility by a third volunteer group. This whole process takes 24 hours!

Floral donations can be dropped off to RAF Knoxville Mondays-Fridays, from 9am-5pm. If needed, RAF is generally able to pick up floral donations within a 30 minute radius of our facility in Evanston. If a weekend pick up is required, a volunteer may be available, although typically we would prefer to pick up from either the venue or the florist on Monday morning. RAF would love to accept vase/container donations, but if the vases/containers need to be returned we may be able to drop off floral buckets before the event.

For planning and scheduling purposes, please coordinate a wedding/event floral donation with RAF at least two weeks before the event.

Yes. Following the event, RAF will issue a donation acknowledgement letter that will provide the date of donation and RAF’s tax exempt letter for your records.

 

If you would like to move forward with donating your flowers to RAF to be repurposed into new bouquets, please complete the below inquiry form. An RAF representative will follow up to discuss next steps and further details.

How Does RAF Work?

For all other floral donations, such as memorial, farm, or wholesale flowers,
please click the button below –

Other Floral Donations

CONTACT US:
jenny@rafasheville.org