Private Estate, Portland, OR
Anna & Mack’s Wedding
This luxury estate wedding in Portland on our bride’s family’s private property was one for the books. Anna grew up in her family’s time capsule midcentury home in the Southwest Hills. And from the very beginning, she knew that this was the perfect space to host a wedding that felt less traditional, more unique - a challenge we gladly accepted.
Over the course of a week, we took their beautiful home in the Portland hills and transformed it into a luxury wedding venue. This set up and custom build took us and our team of vendors four full days to create. We spent endless hours coordinating load in and load out times, a team of four focused solely on details for eight hours straight and we worked with over a dozen vendors to bring this day to life.
For the ceremony, we wanted to celebrate the couple’s Jewish heritage in a way that felt timeless and memorable. So we designed and built a custom organic style chuppah with natural wood to be adorned with lush blooms as though growing wildly and naturally on the front face of the structure. We loved worked with Color Theory Design Co. to bring to life our vision of classic, organic florals growing up the sides of the frame, then draping down the back of the chuppah as they cascaded out towards the estate pool and ceremony aisle.
Beyond the custom built wedding installation, we partnered with Wildhouse Ink to create large, custom wood signage with unique, modern lettering. And we worked with multiple vendors to create a luxury tented reception area with unique overhead floral installations. The 20 foot long rows of white larkspur and strung white stock completely transformed the feel of the tent, creating a natural, elevated garden feel that left both us and our guests speechless.
Beneath the overhead floral installations, our design team styled a modern and timeless reception. Unique vellum place cards rested atop textured ivory menus held by a small, brass clip to tie in the brass flatware. Our table details created a luxe, modern finish using stoneware plates, modern farm tables, organic table runners and natural linens. And the center of each table featured playful fruit arrangements complemented by lush floral centerpieces, glass votive candles and the family style meal of a lifetime catered by Tournant’s farm to fire cooking.
After the meal, the couple and their guests made their way to the dance floor to spend the evening cutting loose beneath an overhead cluster of disco balls, floral installations and icicle, string lighting.
Anna and Mack wanted a classic, timeless and beautiful wedding with an understated elegance and designing it for them was a dream. We spent a year planning, chatting, laughing and crying together and by the time their wedding day came around, everything was as magical and intoxicating as we hoped it would be, and you better believe I’d be lying if I said I didn’t miss these two and this day more than anything.
Photo: Olivia Ashton PhotographyDesign and styling: Mae&Co CreativeFlorals: Color Theory Design Co. Paper goods: Wildhouse InkDraping/lighting/stage build: Royce's Prop ShopRentals: The Party Place, Nüage Designs, Great Jones NWCatering: TournantBar: Merit Badge