The Studio
Six people, and all six are there on the day
There is no account manager here who hands you to somebody else in month four. The person you meet first is the person standing in the doorway when the doors open.
Serwaa Ankomah
Founder and lead planner
Twelve years, and hotel events before that. She takes six weddings a year herself and is in the doorway at every one of them.
Efua Boateng
Senior planner
Came from catering, which means she is the one who knows how long two hundred plates actually take to leave a kitchen.
Nana Ama Otoo
Design lead
Palettes, florals, linens and the place setting built to scale. If your room looks like the drawing, it is because of her.
Kwame Sarpong
Production manager
Lorries, generators, marquees and the loading order. On the day he is with the vendors so the planners can be with you.
Yaw Nkrumah
Vendors and logistics
Books, negotiates and chases. Keeps the shortlist honest, and has never once taken a shilling from anybody on it.
Kofi Amankwah
Day-of coordinator
Runs the guest flow — the aisle, the receiving line, the seating and the two hundred cars. Calm to a degree the rest of us find unnerving.
Working Here
Twenty weddings a year, and no Saturday twice
We are small on purpose. It means nobody on this team runs two weddings on the same day, and it means every one of us is on site rather than in an office.
The season is the shape of the year
November to March is relentless and June to September is not. We plan leave around that rather than pretending the work is even.
Saturdays, and the Monday after
Weddings happen at the weekend. So the studio is shut on the Monday after a wedding weekend, for everybody, without anyone having to ask.
You will run a wedding in year one
Not shadow one. Coordinators take their own ceremony by their third month, with a senior planner in the room and not in front of them.
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
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.
