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Silk & Shadows

📍 Portland, ORplanners5 · 3 reviews
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About Silk & Shadows

Silk & Shadows is a wedding planning and coordination team based in Portland. We’re Ava and Sasha, and between the two of us we plan, coordinate, decorate and officiate weddings all over Oregon and Washington. We started Silk & Shadows because we genuinely love weddings, especially the ones that don’t feel like they came out of a template. Over the last few years that has taken us everywhere from historic mansions and hotel ballrooms to restaurants, farms, orchards and completely empty fields where every table, chair, tent, light and drop of running water had to be brought in. We’ve had weddings with llamas, horses and very determined dogs, ceremonies in pouring Oregon rain, surprise performances, complicated family traditions and décor plans involving a frankly ridiculous number of candles. We’re very hands-on, which means once we take over a wedding, we’re not standing in a corner watching the timeline. We’re talking to vendors, setting things up, moving things around, finding missing people, fixing whatever decided to go wrong that day and keeping all of it as far away from the couple as possible. Sasha also officiates, which comes in especially handy when one of us needs to be focused on the ceremony while the other is already making sure the reception is ready. Our favorite weddings are the ones that actually look and feel like the people getting married. They can be dark and dramatic, colorful and chaotic, very traditional or not traditional at all. At the end of the day, our job is to make sure all the work you put into planning it turns into the wedding you were picturing, while you get to be there for it instead of managing it.

Starting at$1,499
Typical booking$3,000
Service area400 miles from Portland
StyleRomantic & Garden · Modern & Minimal
Packages

Ways to work together

Signature Coordination

$1,499

White Gloves Wedding Planning

$4,999

Wedding Décor & Styling

$2,499
Availability

Currently accepting weddings

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Reviews from couples

★★★★★ Great!

Sasha and Ava were an incredible team to work with and i'm truly happy that we decided to go with them for our big day. From the initial conversation to the end of the event, they both showed up with so much compassion, professionalism and grace. They truly care about their clients and all our interactions with them were absolutely lovely. They are very organized and great communicators which made us feel extremely at ease throughout the whole process. The day of the event was perfect. They managed everything wonderfully. Me and my husband were so relaxed during our wedding thanks to Sasha and Ava and their excellent services. I highly recommend hiring them for your big day. They truly were a huge part of making our day so memorable and we are very grateful to them.

★★★★★ Ten out of ten, no notes

My wife Tabby and I are the kind of people who feel like we're capable of doing just about anything so having a wedding planner didn't even cross our mind at first. And we were smugly enjoying our choice until about six months out...when the wedding suddenly felt uncomfortably close, so we stowed our pride and started looking for help. I can't describe how lucky we were to find Silk & Shadows: not only did Ava and Sasha execute flawlessly, they understood that we wanted something a little weird and a little subversive, and they were right there with us. They were funny, kind, efficient, and seemed to really care that this once-in-a-lifetime experience played out exactly how we envisioned. It almost felt like our wedding was being handled with assurance by our best friends. They rolled with all of our twisted ideas and sick jokes, and never made things weird or uncomfortable. And let me tell you: they got things *done*. There's a lot that goes into a wedding, and they had all the details on lock. They never left us hanging or confused, and they treated everyone with courtesy and respect. All of the professionals that made our wedding great -- the DJ, the caterers, the photographer, the venue staff -- did a fine job. But Ava and Sasha felt like part of the wedding party itself, and I think that made all the difference. Ten out of ten, no notes.

★★★★★ Victorian Belle Wedding

What can I say about Silk and Shadows other than it was an absolute 5 star experience from start to finish! When my now husband and I started looking into the world of planners and coordinators it was definitely overwhelming… but as soon as we met Ava and Sasha, things began to fall into place. They are an incredible team that immediately made us feel that they had everything under control, but also truly saw "us" and our vision. As anyone who is planning a wedding knows… that is the biggest gift anyone can give you. Ava and Sasha made us feel so comfortable in fact, that we ended up asking Sasha to be our officiant! And a better officiant there never was! He wrote and executed the absolute most beautiful ceremony that brought everyone to tears. While Sasha was busy with the ceremony, Ava had everything else completely covered. She is sharp, organized, and knows how to get the job done! We were so grateful she even captured content and videos from the day. With wedding day being such a whirlwind, being able to watch back a reel of highlights was such a gift. Overall, we absolutely could not recommend SIlk & Shadows more. Ava and Sasha were with us from start to finish, and we couldn't be more grateful that we chose Silk and Shadows to be with us on our big day!

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