Gather Event Planning & Consultation

All the other 5 star reviews are spot on. Don’t pass up the chance to work with Gather — complete life savers! Incredibly helpful, thorough, responsible, quick to respond to emails, great advice and expertise. They made my son’s & daughter-in-law’s wedding a triumph! Thank you, Gather!!!

Probably the best decision we made was hiring Katie to do our day of coordination. She was calm and so helpful during the planning process. She had great suggestions and recommendations for us (including an awesome cleaner to do last minute emergency alterations to my dress). Both our caterer and band had worked with her before (which I didn’t know until after I had hired them) and were very excited to work with her again. «Katie’s the best,» they both said independently and I agree. She and her team set up and took down all of the tables and chairs for us exactly as specified (including moving two ginormous picnic tables) and set up our somewhat complicated succulent centerpieces beautifully, just as I imagined. She made sure we were fed and hydrated and stress free. Little issues came up throughout the day but were never heard a thing about them because Katie was on it. Even my some of my more critical relatives remarked how great she was. If you are getting married in the Portland area, do yourself a favor and hire Gather Event Planning.

I hired Gather to do day-​of coordinating of our wedding in Astoria. Calling Katie’s services «day of coordination» is a vast understatement of her work — she helped us immensely with planning in the months, weeks, and days prior to our wedding, and on the day of took charge and handled the entire event flawlessly and effortlessly, from getting set up in the morning, tactfully and professionally moving events along during the day (not always an easy task with our friends and family!), to take down of everything at the end of the night. All we had to do was show up the next morning and load a couple of boxes (neatly organized and packed by Katie) into our car for the trip back to Portland. I can’t imagine doing the wedding without the help of Katie and her team of professionals.

I will echo everyone else’s comments. We planned our Portland wedding out of town and I was advised to get a coordinator. Hiring Katie and the Gather team was the best decision we made. We did the «day of» coordination but Katie was helpful, timely, responsive, and attentive in the entire year prior to the event. She immediately understood our vision and even provided us with alternative options when some of our original vendors had scheduling conflicts. Her suggestions turned out to be exactly what we were looking for. I was so impressed with Katie’s professionalism and her patience. I never imagined I’d go into the day of the wedding not worrying about the details. Gather’s flawless execution on the day of the wedding let us (including our parents) focus on the celebration and not the logistics. I cannot say enough great things about Katie and her team!!!

Katie and the Gather team made planning a wedding easy! We had day of coordination but Katie was with us each step of the way and helped to guide us when making decisions. She knows everything and everyone in the Portland Metro area so when it came to choosing vendors she gave us recommendations within our budget and ever single thing she recommended was absolutely perfect.
If you are planning a wedding make Gather Event Planning your first decision and then the rest of the process will be a breeze!

Hiring Events by Gather to do our day-​of wedding coordination was probably the best wedding-​related decision we made. They were amazing! Katie and Monica were incredibly organized and thought of questions to ask me beforehand that I’d never even considered. There were a couple of times during the event that I thought of something and went up to ask one of them about it, and they’d already thought of it and had it handled already.
We wanted a laid-​back, DIY feel to our wedding, and Katie and Monica were on board, making sure they had a sense of our vision. For example, we bought a ton of flowers at the farmer’s market and had them in buckets. I’d planned to put them out myself after getting ready (really??), but luckily Katie and Monica were on it without me even asking. They asked my mom for direction («Well, she wants them in mason jars– no other instructions»), and by the time I was buttoned up in my dress, they’d trimmed the stems and arranged 20 jars full of flowers.
Do yourself a favor and hire these ladies as your day-​of coordinators… you won’t believe all the work they do quietly and behind the scenes to make sure everything runs smoothly!