Love Romance flowers in Indio

Proposals are their own logistics problem and worth thinking through backwards from the moment itself. The places people actually propose around Indio are not delivery addresses: the polo lawns off Avenue 51 and Madison Street on a Sunday during the winter season, the open desert north of the freeway at sunrise, a table at Shields, the far side of the valley out toward Joshua Tree, which is well past the 18 miles this grid reaches. For all of those, the workable pattern is a morning pickup or a delivery to wherever you are staying, then you carry the flowers. Give us the date, say plainly that it is a proposal, and the shop will build something that survives being held for an hour in a car — which in this climate means a wrapped bouquet with its stems in water rather than a vase balanced on a seat. If the answer is going to be celebrated afterwards at a room at the Fantasy Springs tower on Indio Springs Parkway or at one of the Indian Wells or La Quinta properties west along Highway 111, order that arrangement separately to the front desk in the guest's name with the arrival date on it, and let the hotel do the last hundred feet.