About
Run by Angel Rubio, out of Laguna Hills
Forever Young Lighting is not a franchise and not a call centre. It is a local crew, and the person who quotes your house is the person responsible for it.
By the team behind Forever Young Landscape — 4.7 from 70 Thumbtack reviews, Top Pro 2022–2025, Best of Houzz 2023. foreveryounglandscape.com
Angel Rubio, 2022 — the first season.
How did a landscape company end up hanging Christmas lights?
Angel already ran Forever Young Landscape, doing outdoor work across South Orange County — hardscape, planting, irrigation, the kind of jobs that put a crew on a property for days. Landscape work slows down in winter. Christmas lights are the opposite: they are all winter.
So in 2022 he hung lights on a handful of homes, made a sign by hand, and found out the work suited the crew almost exactly. It is ladders, layout, measuring, and finishing something so it looks right from the street. That is the same job.
He has run the lighting side every season since. It is now its own brand, with its own name and its own phone, but it is the same people, the same trucks and the same standard of work.
Why does the landscape company matter to you?
Because a Christmas lighting business that started this year has nothing you can check. This one does.
Forever Young Landscape has a public record on Thumbtack — 4.7 out of 5 across 70 reviews, Top Pro 2022–2025, Best of Houzz 2023. That is a different company name from the one on this site, and we will not pretend otherwise. It is the same owner, the same crew, and the same way of handling people.
We would rather point you at a real rating on a different brand than invent one on this one. There are no testimonials on this site for the same reason.
Forever Young Landscape — the sister brand.
How does a job actually go?
Start to finish, this is the whole thing.
- You text or fill in the form. Name and mobile number is enough to start. Two photos of the front of the house is better, because it lets us quote without coming out.
- We come back with a design and a price. What we would light, in what colours, and one number. Usually the same day. No deposit to get this far, and no pressure after it.
- You pick a date. Installs run October 15 to about December 10. We book in the order people say yes, so an early yes buys you a better date.
- We install. Most homes are one visit. We bring the strands, the timers, the cords and the clips. Nothing gets nailed or stapled to the house. We set the timer before we leave and turn it on with you there.
- We keep it working. A bulb goes out, a section goes dark, the timer drifts — text us and we come back out. It is in the price.
- We take it down in January. Everything comes off, gets labelled, and goes into our storage. Nothing goes into your garage.
- Next year is one text. We already know your house, your layout and your colours.
What we will not do
A short list, because it says more than a list of promises.
- We will not staple or nail lights to your house. Clips only, every time, even when it takes longer.
- We will not work on a wet or unsafe roof. If the weather is wrong, we move your date rather than risk it.
- We will not take a job we cannot do properly. If the calendar is full in your week, we will say so instead of squeezing you in badly.
- We will not invent proof. No made-up ratings, no borrowed photos, no "hundreds of happy customers" for a company that has been lighting houses since 2022.
Where do we work?
Thirteen cities in South Orange County: Laguna Hills, Laguna Beach, Laguna Niguel, Laguna Woods, Aliso Viejo, Mission Viejo, Lake Forest, Ladera Ranch, Rancho Santa Margarita, Dana Point, San Juan Capistrano, San Clemente and Irvine.
We are based in Laguna Hills, which is roughly the middle of that list on purpose — it keeps drive times short, and short drive times are why we can come back out for one bulb without complaining about it.
Talk to Angel
Text is the fastest way to reach us. Send two photos of the front of your house and you will usually have a quote the same day.
Get your quote
Name and phone is all we need to start. Most quotes come back the same day.