Category Archives: Real Weddings

Real Wedding: Keely & Jeff

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What a pleasure it was to work with Keely & Jeff, and their wedding planner, Katie Thompson, of Dazzle ‘Em Event Design,  on their wedding florals!

FullSizeRenderWe first met the cute couple when they came in January of this year for a site tour and floral meeting . At this meeting, we had a great time playing with the flowers, with Keely (working together with our floral designers) coming up with the perfect way to arrange a lot of precious small vases on a rectangular wooden farm table.

The end result of that meeting? The amazing floral decor you’ll see below.

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Ceremony location: Cabo del Sol Golf Clubhouse Beach. We created a simple arch, framing the crashing waves at this amazing beach venue.

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From the bridal bouquet, to boutonnieres, to the flower girl head wreaths, this couple’s florals were created with love & creativity!

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Let us help YOU create the wedding you’ve always dreamed of…contact us today!

www.loscabosflowers.com

What’s On Top Of Your Cabo Wedding Cake Matters

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When designing your Cabo wedding cake, one of the things we always want to talk about is: how will you top your cake? It’s an important question because your cake topper plays an important part of your wedding cake cutting celebration.

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Your cake topper for your Cabo wedding is a perfect chance for any destination wedding bride to bring a bit of home with her and to make her mark on her wedding decor!  This bride and groom brought this cake topper with them, with H as the initial for their newly shared last name, and with a silhouette design of their beloved dog they’d left at home for the week-end. They made their wedding cake personal…for them!0750KJWPP

Photo credit: Pink Palm Photography/Wedding Planner: Katie Thompson, Dazzle ‘Em Event Design

Whether your cake is for  a vow renewal, like the picture below…

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Contact us today for a quote or just some good old fashioned advice about how to create your once-in-a-lifetime wedding cake!

Let our officiant create the ceremony you’ve dreamed of (but weren’t sure how to put into words)

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We don’t think it’s any secret that we LOVE Cabo weddings! We have been providing flawless flowers, dramatic decor and class-act cakes to our beloved clients for many, many years. We’ve also been providing wedding officiant services for the past few years, but thought, hey, it’s time to tell the world a little bit more about who our wonderful officiant is.
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Meet Joel Lopez Taylor. Handsome, isn’t he? But he’s also a special person, who is gifted with a spirit to be of service.  As an administrative employee for Cabo Flowers & Cakes, he was witness to thousands of weddings, as he prepared the florals and decor for these celebrations.  With a desire to be more involved, his position evolved into working with brides and grooms to create the ceremony that they had dreamed of, but weren’t quite sure how to put into words. Joel works with bridal couples to create a truly unique wedding ceremony. (for those couples who are less creatively inspired, he can provide  wedding script templates that can be used as a whole or cut an paste from to create the ceremony that you want.)
Note: Cabo weddings (unless performed by a licensed Mexican judge) are all symbolic, non-legal, non-denominational ceremonies.
To book Joel as a minister for your Cabo wedding, please contact him at: joeltaylor78@hotmail.com or call the Cabo Flowers & Cakes offices at (011 52) 624 105 145

REAL LIFE WEDDING: Mallory & Evan

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Welcome to Mallory & Evan’s special day! It’s bright, beautiful and full of fun! We at Cabo Flowers & Cakes loved creating the flowers and floral decor for this exuberant couple for their dream destination wedding in Cabo! Once again, we also loved working with these amazing vendors here in Cabo: Beth Dalton, owner of For You, I Do Weddings and amazing photographer, Daniel Jireh.  (Thanks for sharing the photos, Daniel!)

Mallory & Evan’s chuppah (shown above) was so creative and showcased their happy personalities perfectly! Those balls are officially called “pomanders” and we were so pleased with this whimsical wedding look!

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We also had a blast creating this beautiful bouquet!  Mallory wanted color and succulents, and we were happy to oblige!

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Her bridesmaid bouquets were similar (just a bit smaller) and added even more pops of color throughout the wedding!

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One of our favorite parts of Mallory & Evan’s floral design were these luscious hair flowers!  What true beauty…just what every bride wants for her wedding day!

Congratulations, Mallory & Evan!  Thanks for making Cabo Flowers & Cakes such a large part of your special day!

Beth Dalton: www.foryouidoweddings.com

Daniel Jireh: www.danieljireh.com/blog/portfolio

Location: Cabo del Sol golf clubhouse

REAL LIFE WEDDING – JESSICA & JOSH – SUNSET DA MONA LISA RESTAURANT

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When Jessica & Josh shared their wedding design concept with us, they knew they wanted elegance!  They had an amazing location for their Cabo wedding, at the world famous Sunset Da Mona Lisa Restaurant overlooking Monuments Beach and our thrilling Arch, and they wanted that to shine.

cabo-wedding-vendorsBut they also wanted flowers and decor for both their ceremony and their reception that were special and glamourous!

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We love what we created for them, in their theme colors of white, blush pink and gold.  Take a look! (Photo credit: Sara Richardson Photography)

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DO YOU KNOW HOW TO CUT YOUR WEDDING CAKE?



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This may seem like a very simple question, but we here at Cabo Flowers & Cakes actually hear it a lot.  And the reason is…there is a ceremony that goes with cutting your wedding cake!  Even when you are in Cabo, for your Cabo wedding! We’ve all seen it a hundred times before at weddings where we’ve been a guest, but when you are actually in Cabo, cutting your own wedding cake, it feels different!  This is YOUR cake and you are the one who has to cut it!  If you are working with a Wedding Planner (and we recommend that you do…contact us for our recommendations), she will know how to do the cake cutting, so follow her instructions. If not,…here’s how:

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  1. You should have a separate cake table, decorated beautifully, with a linen, candles, and of course flowers from Cabo Flowers & Cakes! The table should be located in a central area, where there is plenty of room for your guests to stand in front of it, while you two stand behind it. (The table can be moved into this more central area right before the cake cutting time if you want it to.  Just don’t move the table with the cake ON it.  No cake crashes, please!)

2.  Your cake should be on a cake stand on the table (again, have a professional move the cake onto the stand, on the table.) Also on the table should be your cake cutting knife and your cake server.  If you want your champagne glasses on the table, that is fine too.

3.  You also need a small plate, a napkin, and two forks.  These should be set up behind the cake, which is facing your guests.

4.  When it is time to cut your cake, your DJ should begin playing your pre-selected cake cutting song, and the MC should ask your guests to gather around the cake cutting table. Your MC can narrate the cake cutting if you are comfortable with that.

5.  Know ahead of time which layer you are going to be cutting into.  (Some cakes have fake tiers and you do not want to cut into that!)  You will normally cut into the bottom tier of your cake.

6.  With both bride and groom holding the knife, make a small slice in the cake.  Go all the way through, from the top to the bottom of the cake.  Most cakes will have their bottom tier on some type of cakeboard.  You don’t need to cut that.

7.  Then, together, grab the cake server, and place that under the little cake slice and gently lift the cake slice onto the plate.

8.  Using the server, cut the slice into two bite size pieces.

9.  Determine ahead of time whether you will be feeding each other cake from your fingers or your forks.  Forks?  Each use a fork to place the cake in the other’s mouth.  Fingers, go one at time (bride first), placing the bite size piece in our spouse’s mouth. Gentle or smearing icing all over the place? That’s up to you!

10.  Enjoy this traditional moment!  And make sure the photographer was there the whole time getting photos!

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Make sure that, for your destination wedding in Cabo San Lucas or San Jose del Cabo, Cabo Flowers & Cakes is the one to supply your wedding cake!

www.loscabosflowers.com

Meet Perla…She’s creating your arrangement!

 

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After 8 years at Cabo Flowers and Cakes, we can’t imagine how we’d get along without Perla.  She is one of our top floral designers, having risen through the ranks at Cabo Flowers and Cakes over the years.  She’s an orchid lover, and a wedding lover! In fact, one of her favorite parts of her job is going to the actual weddings and helping to set up all the florals.  She’s a hard worker (it’s gets hot and sweaty, pulling together all the floral arrangements for a beach wedding in Cabo!) but she never complains!  She can wield a staple gun along with the best of them, and can fix a troublesome flower with tools from her every-handy toolbox!

Perla’s favorite wedding locations are Cabo del Sol golf clubhouse and the Sunset Da Mona Lisa restaurant, and her favorite part of her job is producing the floral arrangements for a wedding.  She says she loves it when she delivers the wedding flowers, and everyone smiles!

Perla  recently worked with a local wedding planner, Katie Thompson of Dazzle ‘Em Event Design, putting together elaborate floral decor for a beachfront wedding.  “I love Perla!  I love the way she takes what she does so seriously!” said Katie.   “Every wedding is very important to her.  For every flower order, she checks, re-checks and then checks again to make sure everything is literally perfect!”

On a personal note, Perla is also an avid soccer player.  In fact, practicing her English, she sang, “I love, love soccer!” as she was being interviewed! She also loves learning English and has become much more outgoing in her second language.

Why should a client use Cabo Flowers and Cakes? “Porque somos los mejores,” Perla says.  (Translation: Because they are the best!)

 

EMPLOYEE HIGHLIGHT – MEET JOEL

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Joel Lopez Taylor has been a member of the Cabo Flowers and Cakes family for 8 years, but it seems like longer!  He has been a part of every project, and a help to every customer, since the minute he started working with us! He is a customer-service enthusiast, and said this is his favorite part of the job.  “I know more about other people’s needs than my own, and I’m here to help with those needs,” he said.

We asked him a few other questions, and loved his responses so much we wanted to share them with our clients (and future clients)…

Why does Joel enjoy working at Cabo Flowers and Cakes?  He answered that it helps him to grow as a person, and to mature.  Thanks to his bosses, he said!  (Not to toot our own horns, but we have loved watching Joel grow as an employee and become a wonderful administrator and someone we rely upon constantly.)

Joel’s favorite location for a wedding? One of our favorites, too!  Cabo del Sol golf clubhouse.

Joel’s favorite flowers?  It’s all about the smell!  Tuberoses and Casablancas.  Great choices, Joel!

His happiest moments at work?  “When a person says Thank You or that their flowers are beautiful!”  (He actually hears that a lot…love it!)

Let’s end this blog with his final words.  Why should a client use Cabo Flowers and Cakes?  He said, “Because we make beautiful things!”  Simple, to the point..and true.  We DO make beautiful things.  Check us out for your Cabo events! Thanks, Joel!

 

 

 

“CAN YOU COPY [INSERT WEDDING ITEM HERE] FROM A PHOTO?”

A question that we, at Cabo Flowers & Cakes, get quite often is this: can you copy [and go ahead and insert anything related to a wedding here] from a photo?  In this visual age of technology, with everyone looking at images of everything at all hours of the day and night, brides are looking at a lot of photos.  You, dear bride, are accessing photos from a hundred different wedding websites, sharing photos on Facebook, and pinning photos of everything you love for your wedding on Pinterest.  (Have we mentioned that we would love you to access Cabo Flowers and Cakes’ social media as well?  If not, please do!)

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With all this being said, the next question is…what do you do with all of these photos that you like (love!) that are assisting you with your wedding planning?  Please share them with us, your wedding vendors!

We love your photos (contrary to what other’s may tell you about professional pride, and design aesthetics.)  Your photos help us understand what you really, truly are drawn to, and we can help create that for you.

Photos can be used to inspire, to explain…or to copy.  To inspire, or to explain, you may show us several photos and say, “I like the ribbon on this…AND the color of that.”  We use the photos as a jumping off point to create something unique and beautiful.

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But…and we are cool with this…sometimes down here in Cabo, we have brides say, “I want it (the cake, the bridal bouquet, the chuppah) to look just like this!”  And we do our best!  Sometimes we need to adapt or alter, mostly because of actual flower or ingredient availability in our little southern Baja peninsula.  Sometimes we need to do a bit of a change up for weather reasons. (Cabo is hot and sometimes humid, and sometimes we, as the floral and wedding cake experts, will advise as to what works best here.) But all in all, we can re-create your dream wedding cake or wedding floral design based on a photo. Send it to us, let us have a look, and be happy with the results!  (Of course, we do also have the disclaimer that while we do the best we can to re-create the exact look of the photo, we are also all individual artists and so there may be some slight variations.)  Just like at the beauty salon when you bring in the photo of Jennifer Aniston’s hair style!