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{Dana Point,CA} – January 27, 2012 – WeddingWire, the nation's leading wedding Marketplace, is excited to announce McCool Flowers has been selected to receive the prestigious WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2012 for Flowers & Decor!

The esteemed annual awards program recognizes the top local wedding vendors from the WeddingWire Network who demonstrate excellence in quality, service, responsiveness and professionalism within the wedding industry. While many industry awards are selected by the organization, McCool Flowers was selected based on its stellar reviews from past newlywed clients.

McCool Flowers is recognized as part of the top five percent of wedding professionals in the WeddingWire local vendor community, comprised of over 200,000 wedding professionals throughout the United States and Canada. The Bride’s Choice Award recognizes the best local wedding vendors across 20 service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers, based on their overall professional achievements throughout the past year.

“WeddingWire is thrilled to honor the success of the top-rated wedding professionals within the WeddingWire Community,” said Timothy Chi, CEO, WeddingWire. “Since the launch of the Bride’s Choice Awards™ program four years ago, thousands of outstanding wedding professionals have been recognized by the bridal community for their supreme service and dedication to the wedding industry. It is with great pleasure that we congratulate McCool Flowers for their continued professionalism and commitment to enriching the wedding planning experience for engaged couples.”

We are happy to announce that McCool Flowers is one of the very best Flowers & Decor within the WeddingWire Network, which includes leading wedding planning sites WeddingWire, Project Wedding, Brides.com, Martha Stewart Weddings, and Weddingbee. We would like to thank our past clients for taking the time to review our business on WeddingWire. Thanks to their positive feedback we were able to receive the WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ for 2012.

For more information, please visit our WeddingWire Storefront today at http://www.weddingwire.com/biz/mccool-flowers-dana-point/890c5dff30918956.html.

To learn more about the Bride's Choice Awards™, please visit www.WeddingWire.com.

About WeddingWire, Inc.

WeddingWire™, the nation's leading marketplace serving the $70 billion wedding industry, is the only online wedding planning resource designed to empower both engaged couples and wedding professionals. For engaged couples, WeddingWire offers the ability to search, compare and book over 200,000 reviewed wedding vendors, from wedding venues to wedding photographers. WeddingWire also offers a comprehensive suite of online planning tools for weddings, including wedding websites and wedding checklists, all at no charge. For wedding professionals, WeddingWire is the only all-in-one marketing platform for businesses online and on-the-go. WeddingWire offers one simple solution to build a professional network, improve search visibility, manage social media and reach mobile consumers. Businesses that advertise with WeddingWire appear on WeddingWire.com, ProjectWedding.com and other leading sites, including MarthaStewartWeddings.com (NYSE: MSO), Brides.com and Weddingbee.com.

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Thank you Wedding Wire!

Thank you Wedding Wire for awarding McCool Flowers with the Bride's Choice Award!! Have you visited Wedding Wire yet? It's a great resource for anyone getting married!

You can visit our Wedding Wire site here... http://www.weddingwire.com/biz/mccool-flowers-dana-point/890c5dff30918956.html

Did you know....

Did you know that Poinsettias are NOT poisonous? I know, I know, you've always heard that they were.... but they are not!

According to MedicineNet.com "While the genus (Euphorbia) to which the poinsettia plant belongs does contain some highly toxic plants, the popular poinsettia itself is not toxic." Even Snopes.com had something to say about the poinsettia myth! ttp://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/poinsettia.asp

Now, nobody said you can add them to your salad (I hear they taste awful!) but now you can feel safe bringing home a few poinsettia. They make the house feel so festive and cheery! And we have some gorgeous 3 and 4 stem beauties in the store right now! Come by and grab one for yourself or send one to a loved one. Happy Holidays!

Our Holiday Event!

Our Holiday Event will be held on November 18th this year from 2:00 until 7:00pm. Be sure to come by the store and see our gorgeous Christmas trees, cute beach themed ornaments, lighted wreathes and other holiday decor! We will be hosting an hourly drawing, offering in store specials, enjoying holiday snacks and giving out free roses (one per customer, while supplies last).

Be sure to bring along a toy for the Boys and Girls Club Operation Homework box. We are accepting donations for the Boys and Girls Club of Capistrano Valley's holiday event in our store this year.

And Santa Claus will be visiting the Wee Loft Toy Store next door from 5:00 until 7:00! So bring along the whole family!

Wedding Wire

Have you heard of Wedding Wire? We hadn't until we started reciveing emails that brides were reviewing us- so we checked it out! What a useful site!! So far we have had 4 brides review us and guess what.... all are 5 stars! Check us out here- http://www.weddingwire.com/reviews/mccool-flowers-dana-point/890c5dff30918956.html

Look what we've got!

We had to keep up with the trend, right?! Use your QR reader on your phone to follow it to our Facebook page and "Like" us!! We have LOTS more photos there!

Cute Little Wedding

It's not often that we are able to document the numerous small weddings that we do here at McCool Flowers- and we do A LOT! It just so happened that I had my camera at work the day we put this one together for a bride who was getting married at the gazebo here in Dana Point overlooking the Harbor.

Wedding at Marbella Country Club

Such a beautiful venue for a wedding! Marbella Country Club, for those of you who are unfamiliar with it, is located in San Juan Capistrano and is an exclusive gated community with a wonderful country club that they have just recently begun renting to those who do not officially belong! The backdrop is a beautiful golf course with the hills behind it!
And the Hoopah (that is the official name for the structure the bride and groom stand under at a Jewish wedding for those of you who did not know)- well, the Hoopah looked spectacular against the green of the golf course with the beautiful green and white flowers!

And Yet...Another Wedding at Laguna Cliffs Marriott Resort and Spa

It's been a busy summer for Laguna Cliffs Marriott weddings!

This one was in a similar color scheme to last weekends wedding- the greens anyway. And of course we had green cymbidium orchids in the arrangements and on the cake! They are so classy and beautiful! And like I said before, Cathy's favorite.


The sweetheart table. I love the bear grass loops. Hopefully we will get some photos from the photographer of the bridal bouquet- it had those cute loops as well.
I love their seatting card idea! And of course our arrangement made it look extra cute :). There were similar arrangements at the guestbook table and the gift table.

Speaking of cute ideas, how cute is this? A wroght iron garden screen with photos hanging from it!And of course there were centerpieces on all the tables to match. Doesn't it look great all put together!?

Thank you to the bride's friend and photographer from Green Bean FX Photography and for David Howell Photography for sharing a few of photos!

Another Wedding at Laguna Cliffs Marriott Resort and Spa

Another wonderful wedding at the beautiful Laguna Cliffs Marriott! And what a beautiful day for a wedding! The bridal bouquet for "J" looked incredible! With mini calla lilies, hydrangea, and Cathy's favorites- green cymbium orchids :0) And how cute are the bride's maids bouquets? With bright pinks and greens- so much fun. In the same colors were two pomander balls that were to be hung off sheppard hooks on either side of the aisle at the beginning. So fun!


And finally the centerpieces. These were really pretty! Nice and full and again in all the fun colors of the bride's maids bouquets- hot pink and green and tied with a bright green ribbon.

Thank you so much to Joe Latter Photography for sharing photos with us!

Did you know we have more photos on our Facebook page?

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Rancho San Clemente Tennis Club Wedding

As you may have read here, we did a wedding show at the Rancho San Clemente Tennis Club back in May and this weekend we had a wedding there! Yeah! It is such a cute venue! (could it be that I'm partial to it because it is where I got married??) The garden area with the wrought iron gazebo is just so cute and quaint! And look how spectacular it looks with our flowers adorning it! :)
And our busy bees in the shop putting together the pomander balls...
And look how stunning the bride looks with her beautiful bouquet!

And her bride's maids looked pretty awesome too!

How great are these tall centerpieces!? Now the guests can actually talk to each other :)




And don't forget you can see more pictures on our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/McCool-Flowers/270571130333. I wish I could tell you who the photographer was, but we have not heard back from the bride with their name yet!

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St Edwards and Ocean Institute Wedding

Don't you just LOVE the fun colors "A" chose for her wedding?!! Love them! And she also chose two great venues for her event- St Edwards Catholic Church and (one of my personal faves) the Ocean Institute in the Dana Point Harbor. If you have never attended a wedding or event at the Ocean Institute, you are missing out! It is one of those comfie, yet elegant venues, with fabulous views of the harbor. And to entertain the kids, there is a real whale skeleton suspended above!

And how amazing are these photos from Jolynee Photography! (her website is really cute too! Click on her name and it will take you there)

Another advantage of chosing the Ocean Institute, the Youth Docks, the Dana Point Yacht club or any of the other venues in the harbor is the awesome setting for photos!