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How to Create the Rustic Look… on a Cabo Beach

September 22, 2015 admin Leave a comment

As the Cabo floral experts, it’s easy to tap into trends. We often hear the same words or descriptions from many different clients. That’s how we know what’s truly popular with our brides and grooms. The one word we keep hearing right now? RUSTIC.

And we love rustic! Now, of course, creating a rustic event on a beach in Mexico is a little bit different than having a rustic event in a barn, or on a farm, or in a meadow, or at a vineyard…wedding options that you may have in the U.S.

For us, most of our rustic weddings happen on a Cabo beach! And we love that! (Of course, we do create floral designs for weddings at Flora Farms, too, in neighboring San Jose del Cabo, which is a working farm. But most of our weddings are on or adjacent to the beach.)

Keeping your floral decor rustic is all about keeping your Cabo wedding look simple and natural with clean lines, while at the same time keeping it elegant.

So how do you do that?

Incorporate a lot of white flowers into your floral design. Baby’s breath is popular again as well in rustic weddings too. (Line your ceremony aisle with bunches of it, for a beautiful and rustic look.)
Use natural wood for many of your floral decor options. We recommend drift wood or curly willow. Create a chuppah with this natural wood, or let us design for you a table centerpiece made with some of our own Cabo beach driftwood with a candles incorporated into the wood.
Use succulents and more wild flowers, than traditional flowers.
Vintage metals look amazing with all of the above options. Set these directly on the beach to line your aisle way and include them in your table design as well.

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KEEPING YOUR EVENT DECOR FRUITY

September 10, 2015 admin Leave a comment

We, at Cabo Flowers & Cakes, know a little trick to keep your event decor fabulous – and affordable – with a touch of whimsy! Add a bit of fruit to your decor. Yes….fruit! Lemons and limes are our favorites, but really you can add almost any type of fruit. Keep it whole or slice it…just make sure to showcase the true beauty and color of the fruit. And make sure it’s a match, color-wise, for your event’s theme and decor.

These sliced lemons lining the tall cylinder vases were a perfect fit for this luncheon’s bright, airy, and natural look. Adding the baby’s breath, Mason jars, and wrapping everything in raffia added the final finishing touches.

For this Cabo wedding’s natural feel, curly willow and tall cylinders of whole limes, lining the aisle walkway, were added to the ceremony decor. What a perfect way to mix the colors of brown, green and white! Very creative, very catchy!

Interested in adding some color, texture and a hint of fun to your wedding decor? Give our floral designers at Cabo Flowers & Cakes a call. We’ll create something delicious for you!

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FOR THE LOVE OF SUCCULENTS:

August 27, 2015 admin Leave a comment

Let’s take a minute and celebrate the most popular plant to now be a part of the Cabo wedding scene! It’s our little green friend…the succulent! It’s popping up everywhere… from rustic farm weddings to beachfront seaside weddings like we have here in our beautiful destination wedding location, Cabo San Lucas. And we at Cabo Flowers & Cakes couldn’t be happier!!!

Destination Wedding Photos by Dino Gomez

Succulents grow as an individual bloom and are the perfect shade of a mellow, mild green. They add color and texture to any floral arrangement without stealing the glory from other beautiful blooms. They are hardy and long-lasting, and add a bit of fun too!

We love to add succulents to bouquets (bridal and bridesmaid), table centerpieces, as boutonnieres (not usually the whole bloom but just a snippet of one), and as mini arrangements perfect for a cocktail table or in a restroom.

Really, the only limit to what you can use a succulent for is your imagination or your budget.

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ARCHES AND FRAMES – THE CHUPPAH’S COUNTERPART

August 12, 2015 admin Leave a comment

Here in Cabo, the chuppah (also sometimes called a canopy) gets all the attention. With it’s four legs, and it’s beautiful draping…most of our brides start their wedding planning intent on a structure like this. But, we wanted to let everyone know…at Cabo Flowers and Cakes, we love arches and frames too.

What’s a frame? It’s basically a two-legged chuppah/canopy, and so we add this to the arch category as well. These ceremony structures are just as beautiful as many of the chuppahs and canopies we design (and they are more affordable). Here are a few to convince you, too:

Remember, in Cabo we are famous for our Arch. So…maybe your wedding ceremony decor should include one as well!

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THE CARE & HANDLING OF YOUR FLOWERS

July 29, 2015 admin Leave a comment

When planning a wedding in Cabo San Lucas, flowers should always be a part of your decor. At Cabo Flowers and Cakes, we of course understand this and know that part of our responsibility when we provide the flowers for your Cabo wedding (whether it’s at a resort, private villa or even on the beach) is to make sure the flowers are delivered in pristine condition!

We wanted to take a moment to share with you how we ensure a smooth delivery of your personal flowers (that’s your bridal bouquet, bridesmaid bouquets, boutonnieres, etc.).

The main concern for us is that your flowers stay cool in our heat. We know and love Cabo, but let’s face it, it can get very warm here. (It’s one of the reasons we all love it.) Good for us, not so good for our flowers. 2012-07-17 19.00.22

We also know that you will need your personal flowers for your pre-ceremony photography. So we want to make sure that your flowers are delivered in time for that, but not too much time before your ceremony.

We will work with you (and/or your wedding planner) to determine your flower delivery timeline, but we usually plan on delivering your personal flowers directly to you two hours before your ceremony start time.

We keep your flowers refrigerated for as long as necessary before transport. Then, once they are delivered directly to you, please keep your flowers in a cool place (an air-conditioned room is fine) and in a vase with a tiny bit of water if possible. (Make sure the bouquets do not drip on your dress when you take them out of the vase for photos. Just a dab with a paper towel or napkin will work.)

If you care for your personal flowers early on in the day, they will last beautifully throughout your whole celebration.

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REAL WEDDING: PAULINA & MICHAEL

July 13, 2015 admin Leave a comment

PaulinaMike_411 We, at Cabo Flowers and Cakes, get a lot of pictures sent to us of floral items that brides want us to (re)create for their weddings. What is our most requested chuppah? It’s this beautiful design that we created for Paulina and Michael’s beach ceremony at El Dorado Beach & Golf Club! Because it is so loved, we decided to feature their wedding as this month’s Real Wedding Highlight. (Plus the antique chandelier is just simply gorgeous!)

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Paulina and Michael were high school sweethearts. Her mom owned a house in Cabo, where she had spent many wonderful days and weeks, and so when she and Michael decided to get married, they knew Cabo was the place! El Dorado was a gorgeous option for their ceremony and reception, and so the planning began.

With orange being their primary color, and brown, natural beige, and yellow being highlight colors, we focused on a simple arrangement of just orange/yellow cala lilies for her bridal bouquet . Paulina wanted to let the bright colors speak for themselves, without crowding in lots of secondary colors. We think her approach worked wonderfully!

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However, when it came time to decorate for her reception tables, Paulina knew that she wanted to create table centerpieces that were spectacular, and that added some additional color to her bronze table linens. She added in white and orange roses, with green cymbidium orchids and draped Belles of Ireland, with alternating dark wood pillars and bronze urns, for a high-low look. With the glow of her amber candles, the tables were so romantic and carried out her brown and orange theme perfectly! We at Cabo Flowers and Cakes are proud to have been a part of this amazing Cabo wedding! And we’d be happy to re-create this look for you, too!

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GETTING CREATIVE WITH YOUR CHUPPAH

July 13, 2015 admin Leave a comment

There is nothing more perfect and beautiful for a Cabo beach wedding than a chuppah at the center of your outdoor ceremony. They are so popular here for a reason…because they look amazing in pictures and they are extremely romantic. (Plus, they are easy to set up in the sand, in grass or on a platform, and they form a perfect backdrop to the crashing waves of Cabo.)

A simple bamboo chuppah structure can be transformed based on the fabrics and flowers that you choose (and many other items that work well to decorate a chuppah too, like shells, starfish, feathers, and more.) You are truly only limited by your imagination (and your weddings color scheme!)

Here are some of our favorites…to inspire you, to delight you, and to prove that your chuppah is an important part of your floral decor. We here at Cabo Flowers and Cakes are the Cabo Floral Experts and we get great joy from helping you create the chuppah you’ve envisioned for your Cabo wedding!

#1 The “Natural Wood” Chuppah

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#2 The “Two-Toned Draped” Chuppah with Chandelier

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#3 The “Floral Border – No Draping” Chuppa

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#4 The “Elegant Satin Drape” Chuppah

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WHAT ORCHIDS CAN YOU GET FOR YOUR CABO WEDDING?

July 11, 2015 admin Leave a comment

Cabo has a million reasons why it is one of the most popular wedding destinations in the world! We have the amazing temperatures, the crystal clear blue water, the Arch, the Mexican hospitality…and so much more! We at Cabo Flowers and Cakes also know that our flower decor and design can rival the top floral design companies in the good ole US of A. With that being said, however, it is always important for a bride to know exactly what she can expect when she comes to Cabo to get married…in terms of her flower choices and their availability. One thing brides may not realize is that on the Baja peninsula, no cut flowers are grown. OK, a few mini cala-lilies at special times of the year, but 99% of the time, we are required to import our flowers from the Mexican mainland and there are limits to the types of flowers that we can get at certain times of the year.

We at Cabo Flowers and Cakes love orchids as much as any bride with some time on her hands and a keyboard to Google “orchids.” We love the Eria Orchid and the Lycaste Orchid, and all the bearded orchids too! However, and we say this with a sad face, these are not available to us here in Baja. The orchids that are available to us, though, are fabulous and fancy and will make a splash at your Cabo wedding. So, which orchids can you get for your wedding here in Baja?

–Cymbidium Orchids in yellow, green, white, light pink, and darker pink

–Dendrobium Orchids in white, green, and fuchsia

–Oncidium Orchids in yellow

–Phalaenopsis Orchids in white & fuchsia

Rest assured that with our creative designs and floral know-how you’ll never miss the orchids we can’t get and you’ll be thrilled with the orchids that we can! Another important note in regard to our orchids: we can also paint or tint with special floral paints to modify and enhance the colors. Just let us know what you need – we are here to create what you want.

Here are some wonderful ways that we have created magic with these magical plants…real weddings with really beautiful results!

And check out our website and Facebook page (Cabo Flowers and Cakes) for even more photos of all of our work:

www.loscabosflowers.com.

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