Gather Events

Wedding Planner

It’s pretty easy to pinpoint where my love of entertaining came from. I had a grandmother who had entertainment down to a science. She was a woman who loved a good party. When I was a small child, I would use her grand assortment of dishes and utensils to practice setting up parties for her; she would attentively drink water from teacups, and eat cakes made of air. When I grew older, I would help my grandmother set up for her various parties, and watch how she had meticulously organized and planned everything down to the smallest detail.

My love of organization and planning has followed me forever, and always carried over into my work. Working as a project manager in the non-profit sector, I had the opportunity to plan fundraisers and meetings for some of Portland’s most noted community leaders and stakeholders.

As a wedding and events planner, I’ve been able to hone in on my passion for helping clients create truly fantastic experiences for their guests. There is nothing more satisfying than knowing my services made my clients’ day better. My work has been featured multiple times on the blogs of Style Me Pretty and Ruffled and Wedding Wire, and in Portland Bride Groom, Oregon Home, and AM Northwest. Read more

4 recommendations

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    Kelsey V

    Shared on theknot.com

    Oh my goodness, I can not say enough about Katie and her team! I went through several coordinators during my wedding planning process, only to have them flake out on me. From the very beginning, Katie made me feel 120% confident in her ability to make my wedding day a dream come true! She was organized, patient, kind, and truly saw the vision I was aiming for. She reached out to all of my vendors to ensure we were all on the same page, and she was absolutely incredible on my wedding day. I could not thank her enough for making my day run smooth and seamlessly. I couldn't recommend a better planning company!

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    Vigdis

    Shared on weddingwire.com

    Katie and the Gather team are truly the dream. From the start, her level headed, cool, calm and collected persona made our wedding planning so much more achievable and effective. She is incredibly resourceful, had the most amazing vendor recs and was also quick and happy to help with our questions throughout the months before the wedding. She's super responsive, honest, creative, and and her experience shows itself off in spades with every aspect of wedding planning. ...

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    Meng

    Shared on weddingwire.com

    Katie and her rockstar team were so essential in us having the wedding of our dreams. When we first started planning our "destination" wedding in July of 2016 at Bridal Veil Lakes, we knew that we had to have someone on the ground helping us so we sought a day-of coordinator, but Katie was so much more. She was the first coordinator that I met with and I immediately knew we'd be working with her. Throughout the entire planning process, she was so incredibly responsive and warm, addressing right away every small concern I had, and no question was too silly. Her recommendations for vendors were so spot on and fit right in our budget. ...

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    Noelle

    Shared on weddingwire.com

    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. ...

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