What We Do
Eight ways we take it off your hands
Most couples come to us for one of the first three. The other five are what turns a booking into a weekend that runs itself.
Full wedding design
12–18 months
From the first conversation to the last chair going back on the lorry. Concept, palette, venue, vendors, budget, run sheet, and every one of us on site for the weekend.
Partial planning
From 6 months
You have the venue and a date and possibly a caterer, and you have run out of evenings. We take it from wherever you have got to and carry it the rest of the way.
Day-of coordination
From 6 weeks
You planned it. We run it. Six weeks out we take over every vendor conversation, build the run sheet, and on the day you hand us the whole thing and go and get dressed.
Traditional rites
Alone or alongside
The knocking and the engagement, planned with the same run sheet as the white wedding rather than as the thing that happens the day before it. Elders, gifts, drummers, speakers, order of proceedings.
Weddings from abroad
About a third of our couples
Video walkthroughs of every venue, drawings instead of descriptions, deposits and deliveries handled on the ground in Accra. You arrive four days out to a wedding rather than to a list.
Florals and tablescapes
Studio visit, Volta Street
The room, dressed. We build one full place setting to scale before anything is ordered for two hundred, because a swatch on a screen has misled every couple who ever trusted one.
Vendor sourcing
No commission, ever
Venues, caterers, photographers, drummers, cake, sound, transport. We take no commission from any of them, which is what makes our shortlist worth having.
Guests and logistics
Included from partial up
Arrivals, hotel blocks, airport pickups, the coach from the church to the reception, and where exactly two hundred cars are going to go. Unglamorous, and the reason the day starts on time.
In Every Package
Four things you get whichever one you pick
Day-of coordination is a smaller job than full design. It is not a lesser one, and these four arrive either way.
A run sheet to the quarter hour
Printed, and in the hands of every vendor a week before. It is the single most useful object we produce.
A floor plan drawn to scale
Tables, walkways, the dance floor, the generator, and where the food actually comes from. Drawn, not described.
A budget you can see moving
One sheet, shared with both of you, updated the day a deposit leaves. No surprises in month nine.
Between four and nine of us on site
A lead planner with you, a production manager with the vendors, and coordinators on the ceremony, the reception and the guest flow.
What It Looks Like
Three rooms we dressed last season
A long table for ninety
One table, one conversation. It only works up to about a hundred and it is worth every centimetre of planning.
Low and white, all evening
Nothing above eye level. Guests who can see each other across a table stay at it two hours longer.
Candlelight and gilt
For a room that goes dark early. Twenty-eight flames, and a fire plan the venue signed off first.
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
Before You Ask
The questions couples send first
How early should we book you?
Twelve to eighteen months for a full design, and it is the venue rather than us that sets that — the four or five gardens in Accra everybody wants go a year out. Partial planning works from about six months. Day-of coordination we will take at six weeks if the bones are already sound.
Do you plan the traditional ceremony as well?
Yes, and we would rather do both. The knocking and the engagement have their own list of families, elders, gifts and speakers, and running them separately from the white wedding is where most of the weekend's stress actually comes from.
We live abroad. Can you plan it without us here?
About a third of our couples do. We work on video calls in your evening, walk venues with a camera, send drawings rather than descriptions, and handle every deposit and delivery on the ground. You come home to a wedding, not to a to-do list.
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.
