Ambiance Designs By Shawn Adams

Shawn creates absolutely stunning work! He is great at providing suggestions and helping bring your vision to life. We worked with him for our wedding in 2011 and now for our first borns baby welcome. Both times we received an abundance of compliments from family/​friends. His work is simply stunning! We will continue going to him for our linen and flower needs.

BUYERS BEWARE!!! Shawn’s talented and will understand what you’re looking for on your initial consultation. But honestly I don’t think I’ve ever had such displeasure with such an unprofessional person afterwards. DO YOURSELF A FAVOR: scroll to the bottom of his page and check out the «unrecommended reviews». This business is VERY LUCKY those reviews don’t make it to their front page. Just an ongoing nightmare since the wedding. And don’t ever call him ever, he’ll just yell and then hang up on you. How much longer will this go on before the owners realize that something needs to change with how they treat their customers???

Did not get the appropriate flowers I had discussed with Shawn for my wedding. Paid extra for flowers and regular roses were delivered in the bouquet. My bouquet was supposed to be all white with a hint of blush, but my bouquet was an all pink bouquet from the 90’s. He was very rude and unprofessional when we called him about the order. Will not use him or refer him to anyone.

Everything was beautiful! I was not good at picturing how the flowers and linens and everything were going to come together and Shawn was the first person who made it all make sense! In his studio (with his adorable dogs), he walked us through everything. He was super nice and helpful and would sketch out design ideas he had so that we could get a better picture of how everything was going to work. His linen selection is great. He does a wonderful job working with your theme and helping your vision come to life. We were doing a Halloween wedding and wanted to make sure it had a more vintage/​elegant feel than something hokey and childish. He did an amazing job helping us to selects, linens, charges, votives, and floral designs. When I was nervous about our guest count going up and having to add more tables, he just said «No worries, sweetie, nothing is ever a problem.» And that made me feel so much better! He definitely takes a weight off your shoulders because you know he will do amazing work. He put up a curly willow arch around our cake table and it looked amazing! I would definitely recommend Shawn. He is so nice and talented and he will definitely work with your budget (you save more if you do both linens and flowers from him, too)

We chose Ambiance Designs for our daughters wedding. We saw Shawns floral designs and were so excited for him to work his magic. After my daughter and I sat down with Shawn for our first meeting we knew we made the right decision to hire him because he was warm, funny and had so many great suggestions. WHAT A HUGE MISTAKE!!! There were so many disappointment’s here are just a few…:We paid to have candles and rose petals on tables at our cocktail hour… I was shocked minutes before the wedding was to start there was nothing on tables! 24 Carrots were so wonderful, they saw my panic and suggested we use our reception arrangements for our cocktail table’s. They took care of it. At Shawns suggestion he was going to flip the venue, meaning use some of the same flower arrangements at ceremony and reception to save money. THAT WAS NOT DONE! We decided at last minute to honor my son who had passed away with an arrangement and one large white candle. I spoke with Toni…(she was great) She suggested I bring in candle so I wouldn’t have to worry about it at wedding. Before the wedding I happened to notice this arrangement. beautiful however, the one large white candle was old, used and black on top! I was told my candle broke. I understand accidents happen, its an easy fix. His assistant called Shawn for an answer, explained to me the candle broke. I just switched it with an extra candle I had brought… but why not say something? Communication was a HUGE problem. Like I mentioned, this is just a few of the problems we had. We were also very surprised Shawn was not at wedding and gave us no indication his assistant would be there… I have NEVER gone out of my way to write a bad review EVER! However, with this being one of the biggest days in your families lives and a huge expense, I felt I needed to. I spoke with Shawn after our wedding and he took no responsibility for ANYTHING!!!

Sean was amazing at first but when you give him your ideas he doesnt like he def. will show it on the day of your wedding. I have a contract and emails to back my story up. I requested a certain way I wanted my table arrangments and he did not like that I wanted LED lights in ym vases. So when he came, he set everything up with no LED lights, wrong color marbles in the vases (he put purple instead of clear) Wrong color calla lillies, (I wanted white and he put purple). Then he tossed pink and yellowish fake petals everywhere on my tables when my wedding color was clearly purple and ivory. When the lady at the venue noticed some mistakes she called him to come back and fix them. He simply came back with a box of LED lights and handed them to her to do it and left. He has since ignored all emails and calls from us. He ruined my center pieces and I want our money back. I’m seriously considering on handling this matter in a legal way because we were so screwed over. I am upset that he cheaped out on me and does not care nor want to respond to our emails or calls. PLEASE be careful when selecting a floral designer and make sure they will do everything you ask.

I have had the pleasure of working with Shawn Adams and Ambiance Designs with several of my brides. Time and time again Shawn goes above and beyond the call of duty and exceeds my brides expectations as well as makes my job easier by keeping me in the loop with any changes that take place. Shawn will work his magic with nearly any budget. I would strongly recommend Ambiance Designs to any bride.
Annette Hoegner
A Classic Touch Events

Can I just say how amazing Shawn is?! I met him at the bridal show at my wedding venue. He was warm and funny and from the work on display talented as all get out! I think I almost knocked over one of his big show pieces and was so flustered he just said, «Oh, don’t worry I didn’t like that one much anyway.» and winked. He had me sold. Anyone this funny who didn’t take himself or his work too seriously was my kind of florist.
I scheduled an appointment immediately, and it didn’t hurt that his showroom/​house was literally a 5 minute drive from my home in Riverside. Shawn and Cynthia were warm and welcoming, and took their time getting to know us and our tastes. We knew what we had in mind for our flowers, but weren’t sure how we wanted them. Shawn came up with a few quick sketchs that were gorgeous and kept elaborating on the initial details we had given him. We were all ready for our September 2008 wedding.
Then the worst happened, my husband was called up by the US Navy to serve 3 months earlier than originally planned. We had had the foresight to ask if this would be a problem, Shawn and Cynthia reassured us it would not be.
Cynthia, Shawn’s office manager, called me weekly and maintained regular emails with me to determine when we would reschedule. When we rescheduled for 2009, Shawn and Cynthia were right on board. They were easy to get a hold of (via phone or email) and easier to work with and talk to. They were so lovely and totally helped us work with our budget and our dream vision. I don’t feel like anything was sacrificed by working within our budget, and when I mentioned modifications that would put us over budget, Shawn would gently tell me what I was doing. It was clear, he does this because he loves it, not because he wants the money.
Shawn’s work is incredibly beautiful. It is sophisticated without being pretentious and graceful without being overly structured. It’s like he looks at flowers and the rascally things do his bidding.
I trusted him completely with the vision of our wedding. We told him what we wanted — which was a very loose outline — and he made it into reality. Shawn put together a complete vision of our wedding, from the table clothes to the flowers to the menus. Our ceremony site was gorgeously decorated, the reception site impeccable. It was a sophisticated Hawaiian dream, which is more or less exactly what we told him.
I love Shawn and Ambiance. I’m even trying to figure out ways to include him and his work into more of our small events. If you pass Shawn up for another florist you are a fool! He will make your wedding a dream, keep you under budget, and keep you laughing.

My experience with Ambiance Designs was nothing but positive! I hired Ambiance to do my flowers for my 12−31−09 wedding. Shawn and Cynthia were nothing but positive and wonderful to work with.
From the very beginning, I had expressed to them that I was working within a certain budget. They were very willing to work with me to produce the look that I wanted, within the amount I was able to spend. They even sent me updated contracts with the details that we had discussed to keep me on track with my budget. I never felt as if I was left in the dark.
The center pieces, linens, and personal flowers were just lovely. Beyond anything that I had imagined! For my bouquet, they even took some of the lace from my dress and used it to wrap the stems. Such a special touch!
I truly believe that anything this team would put together would be beautiful! Their attention to detail, creativeness and consistency is first class. Overall, I would recommend ambiance to anyone who wants to work with a wonderful creative team. Honestly, their work speaks for itself!