Atlas Floral Decorators

Wow, where do I begin??? I just had my wedding this past weekend - and created an account here just to post a review for these guys. Dealing with Atlas Florists has been pure torture. The lead decorator was Jeannie - and she was extremely unprofessional and horrible to deal with. She walks and talks evil - and she will ruin your wedding. Her floral guys are rude and yell when you tell them something's not right with flowers and she herself does not show up until 1 hr prior to ceremony or wedding start. I'll give you an example: my centerpieces were done totally not as promised and agreed to - and when I told the guys who were doing them - they said "we have to wait for Jeannie". Jeannie was supposed to show up at 3pm but didn't arrive until about 6:30 and did not even apologize for being utterly late. She did not pick up on numerous calls that day - and I myself had to run around in my wedding dress with my mother and fix the centerpieces myself, many times having to argue with her guys when they wouldn't let me. When Jeannie finally arrived, she was rude, obnoxious and looked out of place. She screamed, yelled, told me I was rude to her guys - true (I had no choice, I had to save the day and fix the centerpieces!!!). I had such a horrible experience with them I will make it my goal for the next few weeks to tell everyone and post a review everywhere about how awful and unprofessional Jeannie and Atlas Floral Decorators are. PM me if you have any questions....I'll be happy to respond to anyone. TWO THUMBS DOWN.

Kiriba Logan, the designer extraordinaire of Atlas Floral Decorators, delivered all he promised and then exceeded our expectations for our wedding on October 23, 2011 at The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers. My husband and I could not be happier with every element Kiriba provided, from the bouquets to the centerpieces to the magnificent Chuppah that our friends and family are still talking about as the most beautiful one they have ever seen. I knew immediately that Kiriba was "the one" to design our flowers. Kiriba came warmly recommended to me and after meeting with him, I knew we would work well together to create the design I was looking for. Before our meeting, Kiriba asked me to do some "homework" and find pictures of what I liked and was looking for. Kiriba totally listened and came through with flying (Autumnal) colors. Kiriba took the design to another level that really made the flowers more than I could have hoped for. We went with an Autumn color theme and so we were surrounded by seasonal flowers, berries, branches and leaves.The colors and shapes he chose--chocolate calla lilies, red coxcomb, brown/red hypericum berries, hydrangea, birch bark, red/golden roses (just to name a few), had movement and charm and created a veritable Fall Wonderland. I wish I could attach photos to show the magnificent work Kiriba did. Since ours was a daytime wedding, a great deal of the color and decoration was going to be represented through the flowers and their colors. When I showed Kiriba a photo of leaves on the ground I took while visiting Vermont, he suggested scattering some foliage on the floor along the entranceway that people walk down to get to the ceremony. I was a bit skeptical at first, but trusted Kiriba's judgment and was delighted with the results. Atlas Floral Decorators and Kiriba Logan did an incredible job and I would recommend them to anyone and everyone who wants a beautiful, memorable, flawless floral decoration for their wedding or event.

The flowers and the lighting were PERFECT - Our designer, Kiriba Logan, completely captured the mood and spirit that we hoping for. He listened to our ideas and found wonderful and creative ways to enhance and execute them. We couldn't be happier with the way everything turned out.

My wedding was this past March. I worked with Jeannie from Atlas Floral Decorators and it was an awful experience! I always waited for at least 20 minutes in the waiting room of the office. She apologized but I found it to be unacceptable. At first Jeannie seemed to understand my vision and I trusted her completely. I found the cost to be unreasonable but I went forward with Atlas because they have been in the business and have had a wonderful reputation for many years and I trusted Jeannie's concept. When I went back in to see the mock up, it was gorgeous! Everything I had asked for and more. My mother and I were overwhelmed with excitement. I expected my wedding to be everything I had imagined. The day of, boy was a surprised! The colors of the flowers were wrong, there were not nearly as many candles as I had seen in the mock up and the room looked bare. I called up the following week and, "there was nothing," she could do. She suggested I call the owner. Overall I was extremely disappointed in Atlas' performance and product. Yuck!

We were very pleased with Kiriba's work at our wedding. The flowers and decor were magnificent. He and his team made the atmosphere magical and we would not have changed a thing. Our guests are still raving and we would recommend his work to any future brides and grooms.

I was so pleased with our experience with Kiriba at Atlas floral decorators, He is an artist and had beautiful visions and designs. He created the look and feel of our wedding from the minute guests walked into the door until the moment they left. I still have people talking about how fantastic the flowers were. Kiriba was always in good contact with me from the moment I first called them and answered all my questions and even educated me on the different flowers I had at the wedding. I cant say enough about the modern, elegant style that he and his team created at my party. They were very reliable and flexible with me for every meeting and on my wedding day. I had high expectations for this and every single one was met!!!

Kiriba was an absolute joy to work with and is a truly talented floral designer. Our focal flower was the rose and the arrangement Kiriba put together far outweighed my expectations. He was professional, confident and a complete gentleman. The reception flowers looked absolutely phenomenal. I can't even put it into words. He had an impeccable attention to detail and family and friends were flipping coins to decide who would have the honor of taking home the centerpieces. All of that AND he stayed within my budget. You will not go wrong choosing Kiriba for your wedding or special event!

My daughter's wedding was just last weekend, and we have only incredible things to say about Matt Kollins at Atlas Floral Decorators....From the very beginning, he understood what my daughter wanted, and recommended table arrangements, and venue decorations that my guests are still raving about! Matthew had suggested stringing small votive glass bell jars from the top of the ceiling suspended at different lengths along the glass walls of the dining room, and when the evening began, it looked as though stars were shining in from the sky outside...What an impact!
The chuppa was breathtaking, and the brides's bouquet was just beautiful! My daughter had wanted only whites and ivory flowers, and the feeling to be organic and natural...We couldn't believe our eyes when we saw how beautiful and exactly as we spoke of....everything was! Matt helped to make all of us enjoy a most memorable occasion!

Kiriba was a magnificent person to work with. We had our wedding on July 24th, 2009 at the lighthouse chelsea piers. People gasped when they walked into the reception area and could not stop commenting on how beautiful the flowers were. Kiriba was also one of our favorite vendors, who worked with our budget to give us the floral and decor of our dreams. He answered emails, responded to phone calls, double checked with me when necessary. I appreciate the work he was able to put forth on our wedding day. The pictures will be up soon.

I too am puzzled by all the glowing reviews--especially now that I've relied on them like an idiot and used Atlas for my wedding.

Our wedding was at the Lighhouse so we had to use one of their designated vendors--i.e Atlas. We were from out of town and had little time to meet with vendors. We met with Kiriba and picked Atlas based on reviews online regarding the final product--not based on our interraction with Kiriba. I agree with the other reviewers that from the start he had an attitude, was not friendly, and I was shocked that someone like him worked in the service industry. However, I was willing to deal with the personality issues because I had hoped the centerpieces would be amazing. In the end, they were pretty but nothing unique or so creative that it was worth the pretense or the price tag. I was quite annoyed when our sample centerpiece contained pink flowers when I specifically, from day one, indicated how much I hate pink. I had very few requests--this was one of them, it should not have been that hard to note it down somewhere. Better yet, my bouquet was not mango calla lillies as I requested but red callas. This was a very very big deal. Is is the WRONG COLOR in all my wedding photos. However, seeing as to how it arrived four hours before the wedding there was nothing anyone could do. The flower girl petals were yellow, not orange. Again, why sticking to the wedding color of orange, upon being given explicit instructions to do so was so difficult is beyond me. Of all people, a florist should not be color blind.

So far we are impressed. I saw that someone had some issues, which is very helpful and makes me so glad for this site. We've had them create a trial centerpiece for us, and it is beautiful, the colors weren't exactly what we thought they would be, be we loved it... barring any future issues, I'm sure we will end up using them.

So many guests complimented us on the gorgeous flowers. Kiriba did an amazing job. He was so professional and helpful, from the initial meeting to the end. He stayed within budget, and when we met for our follow up consultation, he totally wowed us with the sample table he had made up. The day of the wedding the room was full of color and just looked so elegant and beautiful. I couldn't have been happier!!

Kiriba’s flowers far outweighed my expectations! We had originally wanted a lush fall flowers arch but compromised on 2 large fall arrangements to get married in front of due to budget. I was totally blown away with the final product that was there on our wedding day. It was actually 2 huge arrangements but looked exactly like the arch we wanted that we thought was out of our budget. It was simply amazing. I knew that the centerpieces were going to be fabulous because I had seen a sample. But seeing them in the room on the 16 tables – they looked even more amazing. My bouquet was absolutely to die for as well. It was all red roses and berries and was huge and more gorgeous than I could have hoped for. He also hung votive candles from the exposed pipes in the ceiling over the dance floor which looked like stars over the dance floor – this looked so so cool.

The only thing I was even slightly unhappy about were that the BM bouquets were smaller than I expected – this was not an issue for me though given the other amazing things he did for us.

I got so many compliments on the flowers – people could not stop talking about them all night. I highly recommend Kiriba – he was friendly, had plenty of ideas, and worked within our budget to produce the flowers of my dreams.

Kiriba, our decorator, is amazing. We met with him once and I outlined everything I was thinking of. They stayed within budget and the second meeting we had, they provided us with samples which was exactly how I envisioned them. Soooo satisfied with my bouquet and everyone else in the party. I added draping to the ceiling above the dance floor and, instead of the traditional draping where it all comes to the center, he did this amazing haphazard draping that looked modern and stylish. Loved it! Although I was not going to have a placecard table centerpiece to save costs and he was only going to transfer one of the tall centerpieces from a table and then move it, I noticed that a tall centerpiece remained at the table and the favors were put out on that same table at the end of the reception. A wonderful nice surprise! The only reason why I could not add a plus to the grade was because they forgot the ringbearer pillow. But it really didn’t matter since my nephew is such a ham and was waving to the crowd. And they created flower purses for the FGs and that came out so cute.