There are a lot of ways to say “I love you,” many of them spectacularly bad. A text at the wrong moment. A card that somehow says too much and not enough. A bouquet from the grocery store that still has the price sticker hiding among the cellophane.

Roses are better. They’re direct, traditional, and difficult to misread. Quantities north of a dozen, especially, have a way of making a room pay attention. This arrangement takes that familiar gesture and gives it considerably more staying power, using real red roses that have been selected at full bloom and treated to maintain their softness, color, and natural beauty for years without water, trimming, or a vase slowly becoming a monument to botanical mortality.

And because this is not the moment for subtlety, the message is printed directly on the roses themselves. “I Love You,” repeated across a luxurious display of blooms, turns a classic romantic gesture into something more personal, much harder to accidentally understate, and definitely longer lasting.