Our handcrafted casket flowers, also known as funeral casket sprays, are designed to honor a loved one with handcrafted casket flowers designed with dignity, beauty, and personal meaning. Empathy Flowers creates half casket sprays, three-quarter casket sprays, and full casket flower arrangements for funeral services throughout Brooklyn and Queens.
Each casket arrangement is carefully designed by our Brooklyn floral team using fresh flowers selected for color, texture, balance, and presentation. Families may choose traditional white funeral flowers, elegant roses, peaceful pastel flowers, bold custom colors, religious designs, or a personalized casket spray inspired by the life of the person being remembered.
We deliver casket flowers directly to funeral homes, churches, chapels, cemeteries, and other service locations across Brooklyn and Queens. When timing matters, our team coordinates the arrangement size, ribbon wording, service location, and delivery schedule so the flowers arrive appropriately prepared for the funeral.
Casket Flower Service Highlights
Handcrafted by local Brooklyn florists
Half, three-quarter, and full casket sizes
Custom colors and tribute ribbons available
Delivery to Brooklyn and Queens funeral homes
Same-day service may be available when timing and flowers permit
Shop Casket Flower Arrangements
Browse our collection of funeral casket sprays below. Select an arrangement to view available sizing, flower details, color options, and delivery information.
Choosing the Right Casket Flower Size
Casket flowers are available in several sizes depending on the type of service, whether the casket will be open or closed, and how much of the casket the family wants the arrangement to cover. The terms casket flowers and casket sprays are commonly used to describe the same type of funeral floral arrangement.
Half Casket Flowers
A half casket spray is designed to cover approximately one-half of the casket. This is one of the most common choices for an open-casket service because the flowers can be positioned over the closed lower portion while leaving the upper section open for viewing.
Half casket flowers are also appropriate for families who prefer an elegant focal arrangement without covering the entire casket.
Three-Quarter Casket Flowers
A three-quarter casket spray provides fuller floral coverage than a half casket arrangement while still leaving part of the casket visible. It creates a substantial presentation and works well for both open- and closed-casket services, depending on placement.
This size is often chosen when the family wants a more abundant design without selecting a complete full-casket covering.
Full Casket Flowers
A full casket spray is designed to extend across most or all of the casket lid. It is typically selected for a closed-casket service and creates the most expansive floral presentation.
Full casket flowers can be designed in traditional white, monochromatic roses, mixed seasonal flowers, meaningful color combinations, or a completely customized style.
Flower coverage and exact dimensions may vary by design, flower type, season, and casket size. For help selecting the proper arrangement, call Empathy Flowers at (718) 679-9972.
What Are Casket Flowers?
Casket flowers are large floral arrangements placed directly on top of a casket during a funeral, viewing, wake, church service, or graveside ceremony. They are frequently called casket sprays because the flowers are arranged in a low, flowing shape that extends across the casket lid.
The casket spray is traditionally selected by the closest family members because it serves as the central floral tribute during the service. It may be designed to express love, honor, faith, heritage, personality, military service, favorite colors, or another meaningful part of the deceased person’s life.
Casket flowers may be displayed alone or coordinated with standing sprays, funeral wreaths, floral hearts, crosses, tribute boards, floor baskets, and other funeral flowers.
Casket Flower Styles and Color Options
Every family has a different vision for how their loved one should be remembered. Our casket flower arrangements can be created in traditional, contemporary, religious, elegant, colorful, masculine, feminine, or fully personalized styles.
Traditional White Casket Flowers
White roses, lilies, hydrangeas, orchids, carnations, stock, chrysanthemums, snapdragons, and fresh greenery create a peaceful and timeless funeral tribute. White casket sprays are commonly chosen to symbolize love, honor, purity, remembrance, and peace.
Rose Casket Sprays
Roses remain one of the most requested flowers for casket arrangements. Families may choose all-white roses, red roses, pink roses, yellow roses, lavender roses, or a custom combination of rose colors.
Blue and White Casket Flowers
Blue and white funeral flowers create a dignified and peaceful presentation. Depending on availability, these arrangements may include blue hydrangeas, delphinium, dyed floral accents, white roses, lilies, carnations, or chrysanthemums.
Red and White Casket Flowers
Red and white casket sprays are often selected to represent deep love, strength, devotion, and remembrance. These designs may feature red roses, white roses, lilies, carnations, orchids, and coordinating greenery.
Pastel Casket Flowers
Soft pink, lavender, peach, cream, and white flowers create a gentle and comforting tribute. Pastel casket arrangements may include roses, hydrangeas, lisianthus, lilies, carnations, orchids, and seasonal accent flowers.
Colorful Celebration of Life Casket Flowers
Bright colors can be used to reflect joy, personality, culture, favorite colors, or cherished memories. A colorful casket spray may include yellow, orange, pink, purple, blue, red, or tropical flowers selected to create an uplifting celebration-of-life tribute.
Custom Casket Flowers Designed for a Personal Tribute
Empathy Flowers creates custom casket sprays for families who want a tribute that feels personal rather than generic. Our designers can work from a preferred color palette, flower selection, photograph, theme, cultural tradition, religious preference, or description of the person being honored.
Custom casket flower designs may be inspired by:
A loved one’s favorite flowers or colors
Religious faith or spiritual traditions
Military, public service, or professional colors
Fraternity, sorority, school, or organizational colors
Sports team colors
Cultural or heritage-based color combinations
A masculine, feminine, traditional, or contemporary style
A coordinated set of funeral flower arrangements
Because flower varieties and colors can be seasonal, advance notice provides the greatest selection. When advance notice is limited, our designers will recommend the strongest available substitutions while maintaining the intended style and color direction.
Personalized Funeral Ribbons for Casket Flowers
A personalized ribbon can be added to many casket flower arrangements. Ribbon wording allows the family to identify a relationship, express love, or include a short final message.
Popular casket ribbon messages include:
Beloved Mother
Beloved Father
Beloved Wife
Beloved Husband
Beloved Grandmother
Beloved Grandfather
Beloved Sister
Beloved Brother
Our Beloved Son
Our Beloved Daughter
Forever in Our Hearts
We Love You
Rest in Peace
Until We Meet Again
Ribbon wording should remain brief enough to be readable and visually balanced. Our team can help shorten or arrange the message when needed.
Casket Flower Delivery to Brooklyn and Queens Funeral Homes
Empathy Flowers provides funeral casket flower delivery throughout Brooklyn and Queens. We deliver directly to funeral homes, churches, chapels, cemeteries, houses of worship, memorial venues, and other service locations.
Our Brooklyn delivery area includes Crown Heights, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brownsville, East New York, Canarsie, Flatbush, Bushwick, Williamsburg, Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Downtown Brooklyn, Bay Ridge, Sunset Park, Bensonhurst, Midwood, Sheepshead Bay, Gravesend, Marine Park, Mill Basin, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Greenpoint, and surrounding Brooklyn neighborhoods.
Our Queens delivery area includes Ridgewood, Glendale, Maspeth, Middle Village, Forest Hills, Rego Park, Woodside, Sunnyside, Long Island City, Astoria, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, Jamaica, Queens Village, St. Albans, Hollis, Springfield Gardens, Laurelton, Cambria Heights, and other Queens communities within our service range.
Funeral deliveries require accurate service information. Please provide the deceased person’s full name, funeral home or venue name, complete delivery address, viewing or service date, service time, and a reliable contact number.
Same-Day Casket Flowers
Same-day casket flowers may be available when the order is placed early enough and the required flowers, size, design, and delivery timing can be accommodated. Large casket sprays require substantial floral inventory and design time, so availability should always be confirmed directly.
For urgent funeral flower orders, call (718) 679-9972. Our team will review the service time, location, requested size, preferred colors, flower availability, and delivery schedule before confirming the order.
For the widest flower selection and the greatest opportunity for customization, ordering at least one or two days before the service is recommended whenever possible.
How to Order Casket Flowers
Select the arrangement style. Choose a design from the casket flower collection or contact us for a custom arrangement.
Choose the casket size. Select a half, three-quarter, or full casket flower arrangement when size options are offered.
Provide the service details. Include the funeral home or venue, full address, deceased person’s name, viewing date, service time, and contact information.
Add ribbon wording or a card message. Keep ribbon wording short and provide a separate sympathy card message when appropriate.
Confirm special requests. Call us for custom colors, specific flowers, cultural preferences, religious details, or coordinated funeral flower packages.
Who Usually Orders the Casket Flowers?
The casket spray is traditionally selected by the deceased person’s closest family members, such as a spouse, children, parents, siblings, or the family member coordinating the funeral service.
Friends, coworkers, organizations, and extended family members more commonly send standing sprays, wreaths, funeral baskets, floral hearts, crosses, plants, or sympathy arrangements. However, funeral customs differ among families, religions, and cultures, so there is no universal rule.
When multiple relatives are contributing, the casket arrangement may be ordered collectively and personalized with a family ribbon or card message.
Coordinating Casket Flowers With a Complete Funeral Tribute
Casket flowers can be coordinated with additional funeral arrangements to create a unified presentation throughout the service. Matching designs may use the same flowers, colors, ribbon style, greenery, and overall design direction.
A coordinated funeral flower collection may include:
Casket flowers or casket spray
Standing funeral sprays
Funeral wreaths
Floral hearts
Funeral crosses
Standing baskets
Floor baskets
Custom tribute boards
Urn flowers
Memorial flowers
Church altar flowers
Family sympathy arrangements
Families planning several pieces should contact Empathy Flowers directly so our designers can coordinate the full floral presentation.
Why Families Choose Empathy Flowers for Casket Sprays
Local funeral flower experience: We regularly design and deliver funeral flowers for services throughout Brooklyn and Queens.
Handcrafted arrangements: Each casket spray is created by a floral designer rather than shipped in a box or transferred through an anonymous order network.
Multiple casket sizes: Families can choose from half, three-quarter, and full casket flower arrangements on eligible designs.
Custom design options: We create traditional, modern, religious, cultural, monochromatic, colorful, and personalized funeral tributes.
Direct funeral-home delivery: Our team delivers to funeral homes, churches, chapels, cemeteries, and memorial venues throughout our service area.
Compassionate guidance: We help families choose appropriate sizes, colors, flowers, ribbons, and companion pieces.
Fresh flower selection: Flowers are selected for visual impact, freshness, and suitability for the size and style of the casket arrangement.
A Local Brooklyn Florist Experienced in Funeral Casket Flowers
Empathy Flowers is a local Brooklyn flower shop serving families, funeral homes, churches, and community organizations throughout Brooklyn and Queens. Our designers understand that casket flowers are not simply decorations. They are one of the most visible and emotionally significant tributes presented during a funeral service.
Every casket arrangement is prepared with close attention to scale, color balance, flower placement, freshness, transportation, and funeral-home presentation. Our team communicates directly with families and service locations when clarification is needed.
We also understand that funeral customs vary. Religious traditions, cultural expectations, viewing arrangements, service schedules, and family preferences can all affect the appropriate flower style and delivery plan. Families are encouraged to speak with our team when a service has special requirements.
Casket Flowers at a Glance
Best category name
Casket Flowers
Also called
Casket sprays, funeral casket sprays, casket flower arrangements, or flowers for the casket
Primary purpose
To serve as the central floral tribute placed directly on the casket during a funeral or viewing
Available sizes
Half casket, three-quarter casket, and full casket arrangements
Who usually orders them
The spouse, children, parents, siblings, or closest family members
What is the difference between casket flowers and a casket spray?
There is generally no meaningful difference. Casket flowers is the broader customer-friendly term, while casket spray is the traditional floral-industry term for the large arrangement placed on top of a casket.
What size casket spray should I order?
A half casket spray is commonly selected for an open-casket service. A full casket spray is most often selected for a closed-casket service. A three-quarter casket spray offers fuller coverage while leaving part of the casket visible. The funeral home and florist can help confirm the most appropriate size.
Who is supposed to purchase the casket flowers?
Casket flowers are traditionally selected by the closest family members, such as a spouse, children, parents, or siblings. Friends and extended family members more commonly send standing sprays, wreaths, funeral baskets, plants, or sympathy flowers.
Can casket flowers be customized?
Yes. Casket arrangements may be customized with preferred colors, flower varieties, ribbon wording, religious details, cultural themes, organizational colors, sports colors, or other meaningful design elements, subject to flower availability and preparation time.
What flowers are commonly used in casket sprays?
Roses, lilies, hydrangeas, carnations, orchids, chrysanthemums, stock, snapdragons, delphinium, gladiolus, and seasonal flowers are commonly used. The selection depends on the arrangement style, size, color palette, season, and flower availability.
Do you deliver casket flowers directly to funeral homes?
Yes. Empathy Flowers delivers casket flowers to funeral homes, churches, chapels, cemeteries, and memorial venues throughout Brooklyn and Queens. Complete service and delivery information must be provided when ordering.
Can I order same-day casket flowers?
Same-day service may be available depending on the requested design, arrangement size, flower inventory, funeral-home location, service time, and design schedule. Urgent orders should be placed by phone so availability can be confirmed.
Can a ribbon be added to the casket spray?
Yes. Many casket sprays can include a personalized ribbon with wording such as “Beloved Mother,” “Beloved Father,” “Forever in Our Hearts,” or another brief tribute.
How far in advance should casket flowers be ordered?
Ordering at least one or two days before the service is recommended whenever possible. More time may be needed for specialty flowers, custom colors, large full-casket designs, multiple coordinated pieces, or highly personalized arrangements.
Can casket flowers match the other funeral arrangements?
Yes. The casket spray can be coordinated with standing sprays, wreaths, hearts, crosses, baskets, tribute boards, church flowers, and other funeral arrangements using matching flowers, colors, ribbons, and greenery.
Order Casket Flowers From Empathy Flowers
Browse our casket flower collection or contact our Brooklyn floral team for help selecting a half, three-quarter, or full casket spray. We provide compassionate funeral flower service and delivery throughout Brooklyn and Queens.
Empathy Flowers 2175 Bergen Street Brooklyn, NY 11233 (718) 679-9972