JaCiva’s, a 37-year-old Portland bakery known for its Swiss chocolates and elaborate wedding cakes, will close once supplies run out later this year, according to a post on its Facebook page Friday.

“It is with a heavy heart that we are announcing JaCiva’s Bakery will be closing its doors,” the post reads. “At this point we are continuing business as supplies last.”

The bakery will operate on a “walk-in or same-day-order basis” going forward, selling tortes, chocolates and other baked goods until no more can be made.

“What a pleasure it’s been serving our Portland community for 37 years,” the post reads. “We will miss being a part of your celebrations.”

Jack and Iva Elmer, a couple who met, married and combined their families — He had two children from a previous marriage; she had four — after meeting at Heidi’s Swiss Village in Troutdale, opened JaCiva’s bakery on SE Hawthorne Boulevard in 1986, according to a 2013 story in The Oregonian.

By that point, Jack Elmer, who grew up on a dairy farm in rural Troutdale and learned to bake at his mother’s side, had already attended graduate school for pastry in Minnesota and earned the title of “konditor,” or master pastry chef, at a finishing school in Switzerland. He previously owned Elmer’s Old Fashioned Bakery in Gresham and ran the Old Bohemian Bakery in downtown Portland. His uncle was Walt Elmer, co-founder of the Elmer’s restaurant chain.

Elmer’s stepdaughter, Laura Boscole, who took over managing JaCiva’s shortly before his 2014 death, told local news media that JaCiva’s hasn’t seen its once-robust wedding business bounce fully back in the years since the COVID-19 pandemic.

“It’s a struggle in this economic environment,” Boscole told KOIN News on Friday. “There’s a lot of changes that Portland has gone through, and it’s been very difficult for small businesses. Crime and vandalism play a part in that and this wasn’t a decision that came lightly and it’s heartbreaking.”

JaCiva’s hopes to stay open through October.