Romance deliveries in Aurora fail for one reason far more often than any other: nobody could get to the door. Aurora's rental stock is huge and much of it is controlled-entry — the mid-rise and garden-style complexes strung along Havana Street, East Iliff Avenue, East Alameda Avenue and Buckley Road, the newer buildings near the RTD R Line stations that run up the I-225 corridor from Nine Mile through Iliff, Florida, Aurora Metro Center, Thirteenth Avenue, Colfax and Fitzsimons to Peoria, and the leasing-office-only complexes around the Anschutz campus that house residents, students and travelling clinical staff. On the other end of the city the problem inverts: the southeast subdivisions in 80015, 80016 and 80018 — Saddle Rock, Tallyn's Reach, Blackstone, Beacon Point, Murphy Creek — include gated streets and long private drives. In both cases a package locker will not take flowers, and a driver who cannot reach a door brings the arrangement back to the shop. Put the gate code, callbox name or leasing-office instruction in the delivery notes, add a phone number, and ask for hand-to-hand instead of leave-at-door. For a surprise, give your own number or a housemate's rather than the recipient's.
Proposals are their own category and they need a different plan. Aurora's own scenery is plains-and-water rather than mountain: the Aurora Reservoir loop in the southeast, where sunrise comes up over open prairie with the Front Range behind you, the Aurora side of Cherry Creek State Park in 80014, the Plains Conservation Center with its short-grass prairie and interpretive site, and the Sand Creek Greenway trail through Star K Ranch. Further afield but inside most couples' plans: the Denver Botanic Gardens on York Street, Washington Park, and Red Rocks Park in Morrison — which is well outside our 18-mile search radius, so the flowers for a Red Rocks proposal are delivered to the house or hotel beforehand and carried, not met on site. For anything outdoors, order a hand-tied wrapped bouquet rather than a vase arrangement: it travels in a footwell, survives a trail, and photographs better in hand. And check the wind. Spring on the Front Range routinely runs gusts that will destroy an open arrangement in the ten minutes between a car park and a viewpoint.