The Couples
What people say once the lorries have gone
Collected after the final invoice rather than before it, which is the only point at which anybody tells you the truth about their wedding.
Adjoa & Nii
“We were guests at our own wedding. My mother still thinks nothing went wrong.”
Full design · 220 guests · Airport City
Esi & Bright
“She looked at our budget, moved four numbers, and gave us back twice the wedding.”
Partial planning · 140 guests · Ada
Naa & Kwesi
“Two families, three hundred people, one weekend. Everybody was where they should be.”
Full design · 310 guests · Aburi
Ama & Fiifi
“Planned from London. It looked exactly like the drawings. Exactly.”
Full design · 180 guests · Tema
Abena & Kofi
“They planned the knocking as carefully as the white wedding. Nobody ever does that.”
Traditional rites · Kumasi
Akos & Mensah
“Ninety guests on a lawn. Small, and not one bit less considered for it.”
Day-of coordination · 90 guests · Akosombo
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
Who Else Is In The Room
The people we hand work to
We take no commission from any of them and never have. It is the only reason a shortlist from us is worth reading.
Venues
Gardens, halls, hotels and two private houses. We have walked every one of them in the rain, which is the only walk that tells you anything.
Caterers and cake
Four we book repeatedly and a dozen we will happily work with. The test is not the tasting — it is whether two hundred plates leave the kitchen inside twenty minutes.
Photographers and film
We hand over a run sheet a week ahead so nobody is guessing where the light will be at four. The good ones ask for it before we offer.
Drummers, bands and sound
Traditional ensembles for the rites and a separate rig for the reception, because one system asked to do both does neither well.
Florists and stylists
Two we work with weekly, and our own team for anything that has to survive a harmattan afternoon outdoors.
Transport and power
Coaches, cars, generators, lorries. Unglamorous, invisible when it works, and the single most common reason a wedding starts an hour late.
The Record
What twelve years actually looks like
240 weddings delivered
Two postponed, both for weather
Nought vendor commissions taken
One wedding started late, by nine minutes
The nine minutes were ours. A florist's van and a lorry met in a gateway in Aburi and neither driver would reverse.
Venues and makers we work with most
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.
