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THALIA GUZMAN

Coco LeFor oers customizations or customers can purchase a premade arrangement.

Coreen Vizzini has over 20 years of experience in the oral industry.

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Coco LeFor creates wooden owers in Cibolo After becoming a professional orist and working in the industry for over 20 years, Coreen Vizzini’s dream of opening her own ower shop became a reality when she opened Coco LeFor in 2023. How it started Vizzini said she couldn’t get past wasting a

What they oer What started as a few requests ourished into a full-time oral business. Coco LeFor specializes in over 20 styles of sola wood owers, an eco-friendly and sustainable alternative to fresh owers. Coco LeFor also oŠers preserved roses and creates customized or prearranged ower arrangements for weddings and other events. “I feel like we are kind of solving some problems with these owers because they don’t die. So for weddings, brides don’t have to stress out about them fading before their big day,” Vizzini said. Coco LeFor also oŠers eco-friendly vases that are 3D printed. In addition the shop sells local products such as honey, mugs, candles, popcorn and coŠee.

Hand-tied bouquets ($38) come in a variety of styles.

beautiful and perishable product. She worked as a oral manager and created arrangements for weddings and other events. She took a request to create a wood ower arrangement and realized it was a creative and waste-free solution. “I had my ƒrst request for a wood ower wedding in 2016 and thought ‘Oh my goodness, this is really cool,’” Vizzini said. “I started selling at markets and it went really well.”

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200 Pfeil Road, Cibolo www.cocolefor.com

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