Finally, funeral wreaths get a chance to be V-Day flowers too
This is for the one you can't live without.
A florist in Manila has released an odd set of Valentine's Day funeral wreaths. Naturally, they're meant to be sent with declarations of love, peppered with puns about death:
Puns like "I'm dying to see you" and "You have a killer smile", as well as "Patay na patay ako sayo," which literally means "I'm dying for you" in Tagalog, features in the wreaths.
The line of "bouquets" is sold by Saint Jo's Flowers, which is calling them "Pamatay na Valentine's Flowers" (or roughly, Killer Valentine's Flowers).
They carry witty lines in Tagalog and English and are shaped like mini funeral wreaths, at 1 foot (30cm) tall.
"Everyone's tired of the usual roses, bouquets, so we thought of doing something different," Jojo Santiago-Calderon, the shop's creative director, told ABS-CBN.
The wreaths have gone viral on Facebook:
Calderon told Mashable that "we thought that it's the more out of the box ideas that people (would) like." "The queerer it is, the more it attracts people," he said.
The flowers were selling so well that the florist had to turn away some orders. "We underestimated the interest it would generate," Calderon added. "We had to turn away some orders due to higher demand than we prepared for."
"There is a chance that we may sell them again next year."
UPDATE: Feb. 15, 2017, 6:19 p.m. SGT Story has been updated with Calderon's response.
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