A Great Idea - Flowers From The Heartland

[Oilwellian]

Today a coworker of mine had a thought to send flowers to a random couple waiting in line at SF city hall.

He called a florist and they agreed to do it. He told them to deliver to any couple -- it didn't matter who -- standing in line to get married, with his blessing. The card will read simply "With love, from Minneapolis, Minnesota."

Once they understood, they were very touched and thought it was a great idea.

He told another co-worker who did the same thing. And now we want to start a movement. Wouldn't that be cool if people from all over the country, gay, straight and otherwise, started sending flowers to the people waiting in line to get married.

Call it The Big Gay Bouquet call it Flowers from the Heartland. Call it whatever you want, but help us get this off the ground.

Call Flowers on the Bay at 888-217-9119 and order a bouquet to be delivered tomorrow at noon.

And Tell all of your friends to do it.

Because straight or gay, we believe and we know many people who believe, support and celebrate the right to marriage. And we'd like to show it. We'd like to see all of the people standing in line with flowers of support from all over the country.

PS. Flowers on the Bay seems like a small shop and might get overwhelmed if this really did catch on. I have a feeling that any Bay-Area flower shop, perhaps even doing FTD through your local florist, could work.

http://www.livejournal.com/community/twin_cities/517426.html#cutid1

[RoadRunner]

1. Awesome idea

I'm calling first thing in the morning. thanks!

[wellstone_democrat]

2. Oh yeah, I'm loving this: Midland TX is sending some your way

I'll be there tomorrow for a meeting and plan to make sure that the Priesident*'s "Hometown" is represented for the happy nuptials in SF.

Good Luck to you all in SF!
Thanks for the idea.

BTW, this whole thing (and reading the original thread linked above on that Minn site) made me feel better about things than I have for a long time. These people are the Americans I know.

[bobbieinok]

3. check out the link - it's interesting

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[Oilwellian]

4. If you read the comments within the thread

there are several florists mentioned who are working on this. Apparently, they have been overwhelmed with calls from all over the country. I also saw someone suggest sending flowers to the mayor who made this all possible.

This story does my heart good and gives me hope for America.

[wellstone_democrat]

5. kick

send people over to this thread---we need more people to do this

[foreigncorrespondent]

6. Can we organize a DU...

...collection to send flowers to Newsom from behalf of all of us?

[Oilwellian]

7. That's a great idea

Perhaps someone with a PayPal account can organize it?

[Deb]

10. Great idea! I'd love to donate

How about starting a new thread with this idea? I'm sure there are many other DUers that would like to join in.

[foreigncorrespondent]

11. I started another thread in the lounge. (n/t)

[Oilwellian]

8. Kick

C'mon DU'ers! Isn't this a great idea? I forgot to give Atrios the credit for linking to this story. There are comments on this movement already going international. Imagine the couples being innundated with flowers from wellwishers around the world. :D

[bpilgrim]

9. toast

great idea :toast:

peace

[roguevalley]

12. God bless you. What a great idea. One from alaska coming up.

[Maeve]

13. I think this is wonderfully sweet!

Supportive and touching