About the Studio
A studio that thinks in run sheets
Adore plans and designs weddings in Ghana — and plans a good number of them for couples who are not currently in the country. This is who we are and how we work.
The Studio
Six people, one weekend at a time
Adore is a planning and design studio of six on Volta Street in Airport Residential. We take between eighteen and twenty-four weddings a year, which is fewer than we are asked for and roughly half what a studio our size could physically deliver.
That number is the whole business model. It means the person who sat with you in February is standing in the doorway in November, and it means nobody on this team is running two weddings on the same Saturday.
About the Founder
Serwaa Ankomah
Serwaa Ankomah has been planning weddings in Accra for twelve years. She came to it from hotel events, which is why she thinks in run sheets and seating plans rather than in mood boards — and why nothing on your day happens later than it said it would.
12
Years planning
240
+
Weddings delivered
60
k
Guests seated
How We Work
Four things we do not negotiate on
None of them are unusual. All four of them are unusual together, which is most of what a studio is.
A flat fee, published
Our figure is on the packages page and it does not move with your budget. We take no commission from any vendor we recommend, which is the only reason you can trust the recommendation.
Everything is written down
A run sheet to the quarter hour, a floor plan to scale, a vendor list with the names and numbers of the people actually turning up. You get all three, and so does every vendor on the day.
The families are part of the plan
A Ghanaian wedding has more than two people making decisions and pretending otherwise is how weekends go wrong. We meet the elders early, put the traditional rites on the same timeline, and take the awkward calls so you do not have to.
We tell you what went wrong
Something always does. You hear about it the following week with what it cost and how we covered it, because a studio that claims a flawless record is a studio that is editing.
How It Works
Three conversations and one very good day
The same three stages whether you have booked us for the whole year or for the last forty-eight hours.
01
We meet, and we listen
An hour with both of you and, if it matters, both families. We come out of it with a guest count, a season, a budget you have actually agreed on, and a sense of what you would each quietly rather avoid.
02
We draw the day
A palette, a floor plan, a menu and a run sheet down to the quarter hour. You see the whole day on paper before a single deposit leaves your account.
03
We hold it together
Vendors booked and chased, deliveries received, the drummers paid, the aunties seated. On the day you carry nothing but each other.
Where To Find Us
Volta Street, on the second floor
Samples, linens, chargers and about four hundred metres of ribbon. Come and look at things in daylight rather than on a screen — Tuesdays to Fridays, by appointment.
The sample room
Linens, glassware, chargers and the last three years of florals, laid out to be argued over.
The table
One full place setting, built to scale, before anything is ordered for two hundred.
The family meeting
Both sides, one table, and a list of who is speaking. Usually the most useful hour of the whole year.
Venues and makers we work with most
Adjoa & Nii
“All we can really say is: we were guests at our own wedding. Adore ran the day so quietly that my mother still thinks nothing went wrong. Three things did. We heard about them the following Tuesday.”
220 guests, Airport City, March
Let us set a scene that looks like the two of you
Tell us the date, the town and roughly how many people love you. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right studio for it.
