has anyone used/purchased rose petals from a grocery store? (sams, costco)

What store was it? I'm thinking of doing this too. How much were they? For how much?

We purchased 100 yellow roses from Costco (they were $86). We had them arrive the Friday before our Sunday wedding and they were perfect. We took the roses apart the morning of and put them in big zip loc bags with a moist paper towel and stored them in the fridge until that evening. (Ceremony was at 6pm) we had enough to line our aisle, for cones to hang on the chairs, for our flower girl, then some to sprinkle on the sweetheart/cake/welcome tables AND we saved about 9 roses to put in a vase at home

Edit: Ours were also shipped from Ecuador.

Good info @alejandra. makes me feel better. i got mine from sam's club online (you have to be a member i think, i had to enter my membership info to order them) and i got 5,000 rose petals for 87$, free shipping, will be delivered Friday by 10am.

The flowers ship via cold storage so you won't have the issue you would have in a normal venue of shipment.

I have been looking at Sam's or Costco for the same thing. Glad to hear something positive! I'm a member of Sam's and my parents have a Costco membership, so I figure I have my pick.

Yeah i didnt even look into Costco since we dont belong there but the coordinator at my venue told me that their roses by the dozen are fairly cheap, not sure if they have just petals, but you could just buy those and peel the petals off yourself like someone mentioned above. that was gonna be my last resort was buying a bunch of roses and doing that but luckily i found some on sams!

I'm sure you could! It might be cheaper than going to an actual florist