Santa Barbara’s premier creative event services company

We are Ambient Event Design

For us, life’s biggest moments become immersive worlds where light, color, and sound define an unforgettable experience.

History

For over two decades, Ambient Event Design has shaped Santa Barbara’s most memorable events. Family founded, owned, and run since 2002, we tailor every event to its hosts, guests, and setting, blending world-class aesthetic talent with deep technical expertise. When you hire us, you are hiring a team unmatched in its creativity, craft, and professionalism.

A ballroom under a canopy of crystal chandeliers with candlelit tables and a grand piano stage

Event Design

Deep attention to detail, meticulous forethought, long experience, and abundant creativity are the tools we use to design and implement complete concepts. Our plans include all facets of Conventional, LED and Automated Lighting Design, Professional Fabric Treatments, Fresh Floral Creations and Table Embellishments, Multi Media Video Displays and Presentations, Audio Systems, Power Distribution and Overhead Rigging Support.

A clear-top tent ceiling filled with thousands of warm string lights

Event Lighting

Lighting an event space properly is the foundation of any comfortable setting. Our use of colors and tones prioritize comfort and nostalgia; specific highlights offer visibility and accented display, surrounding natural features become brilliant accents, and the overall feeling is unified, relaxing, and enchanting for everyone in attendance.

Blush and lavender floral centerpieces beneath greenery-and-string-light garlands

Exceptional Florals

As true partners in your event's success, our approach to floral design starts with a sense of your passions and ideas. Our design of floral expressions occur through sensitive collaboration and deep understanding, and our team will provide you with versatile, unique florals and embellishments.

Billowing white fabric draping installed over a Santa Barbara rooftop terrace

Scenic Decor Elements

Ambient Event's scenic elements define themes, make statements, create guest interaction spaces, establish perimeters, and spark interest. We design and build themed scenery backdrops, offer scenes complemented by diverse plant material, trees, shrubs and hedges, themed booths and cabanas, lounges and full furniture rentals, fabric backdrops, and presentation displays.

A large LED video wall showing a moonlit ocean behind the stage at a gala

Stunning Audio/Visual

Ambient provides a full line of audio/visual services and equipment. We manage premium sound systems for wedding ceremonies, live auctions, toasts, DJs, concerts, live events and stunning multimedia presentations. Our services also include projection, flat panel LCD monitors, live event image magnification (IMAG) and comprehensive mixing and switching management.

Get in Touch

Realize the limitless creative potential of your next event.

Tell us about your vision and we’ll get back to you within days. Prefer to talk? Call 805 886 8444.

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