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Send your girlfriend digital flowers she can keep
Real flowers are dead by Sunday, cost double in the week everyone is buying them, and cannot be delivered to a flat in another time zone at eleven at night. Digital flowers are a different kind of gift: a bouquet that arrives as a link, opens on her phone, and is still there in five years.
The Flowers template on Longlove is built for exactly that. She opens a bouquet and finds your letter tucked into it. Under the letter are the miles between the two of you, and the moon exactly as it looked the night you met. You choose the flower color, write your words, add a few photos, and send the link.
What she sees when she opens it
The page opens on a hand-drawn bouquet with a small letter tucked in among the stems. She taps the letter, and your words open out of it. Further down are your photos as little polaroids, a line showing how many miles lie between your two cities, and the moon drawn as it looked on a date you pick. It is designed for a phone held in one hand, so everything is one tap or one scroll. There is nothing to download and no account to make: she taps the link and the flowers are there. It reads as a gift because it has an opening, a small moment of unwrapping, rather than being a picture sent in a chat.
Pick the color for her, not for you
The bouquet comes in pink, peach or lilac. Pink is the classic and the safest. Peach is warmer and a little less expected, and it suits someone who would never pick pink for herself. Lilac is the quiet one, good for a girlfriend who likes things a bit moody and a bit grown up. If you have ever noticed which flowers she stops to look at, use that. If you have no idea, think about the color she wears most and go one shade softer. You can switch color at any point while you are building, and the preview updates straight away, so it costs nothing to try all three before you decide.
Write the letter like a text you would actually send
The letter is the part she will read twice, so keep it short and specific. Three short paragraphs is plenty. One thing she did recently that you keep thinking about. One thing you are looking forward to doing with her. One line that only she would understand: the nickname, the joke, the street name. Skip the lines every card in the shop already has. Long paragraphs are hard on a phone, so break them up where you would pause if you were saying it out loud. If you are stuck, say the first draft out loud to yourself and type up what you said. The letter should sound like you on a good day, not like a poem you found.
The miles and the moon
Two small details make the page hers. First, the miles. Pick your city and hers from the list and the page works out the distance and shows it in miles or kilometers. For a long distance couple that number is oddly romantic: it is the thing you are both fighting against, written out as a sentence. For a couple who live ten minutes apart it is a joke, which also works. Second, the moon. Enter the night you met, or your first date, and the page draws the moon as it was that night. Nobody else will ever send her that exact moon. If the date is the part you are unsure of, ask a mutual friend, or check the timestamp on your first messages.
When to send flowers that never wilt
Skip the 14th of February if you can; that is the one day she is guaranteed flowers from the whole internet. Send them on a day that has no reason: a Tuesday, after a bad week, the morning after a fight you both wanted to be over, the day before you see each other. Digital flowers shine in exactly the moments a florist cannot do: far away, late, last minute, or when a bunch of roses would feel like too much. If you can, send real ones as well and use the page as the card. The page is the part she will still open next year. Building and previewing is free and private, so you can check it on your own phone before you pay anything.
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