Our Story
Twelve years, and a decision not to grow
It began with a friend's wedding in a garden in Labone and ninety chairs borrowed from a church. Most of what we know came from the weekends that went wrong.
2014
One wedding, borrowed chairs
Serwaa Ankomah left a hotel events desk to coordinate a friend's wedding in a garden in Labone. Ninety guests, chairs borrowed from a church, and a run sheet written on hotel stationery that we still have.
2017
The first hundred-guest garden
Three weddings in one season at Aburi taught us what a public garden really costs: no power, no kitchen, and a closing time that is not negotiable unless you negotiate it in February.
2019
Volta Street, second floor
A room of our own, with space to lay a full place setting out and leave it there for a fortnight while a couple argued about the napkins. It changed how we design.
2021
Traditional rites, properly
We stopped treating the knocking as the thing that happens the day before and built it its own run sheet, its own vendor list and its own coordinator. Two thirds of our couples now book both.
2023
The first wedding planned entirely on video
A couple in Toronto who saw their venue for the first time four days before the wedding. It went so well that a third of our work is now for couples who are not in the country.
2026
Six people, twenty weddings a year
Deliberately fewer than we are asked for. It is the only way to keep the promise that the person you meet first is the person standing in the doorway on the day.
By The Numbers
Twelve years, counted
12
Years planning weddings
240
Weddings delivered
60
k
Guests seated and fed
7
Regions we have worked in
From the Founder
Why we stayed small
In 2019 we were offered enough work to double the studio, and I spent a fortnight drawing up how it would run. Every version of it ended with somebody meeting a couple in February and somebody else standing in the doorway in November.
So we did not do it. Twenty weddings a year is what six people can do properly, and I would rather turn work away in March than apologise for it in December.
Serwaa Ankomah, founder
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.
