Bookings
Send me a date,
and I will tell you the truth about itAbout thirty weddings a year and one a day. November, December and January go nine to twelve months ahead; the rest of the year is usually easier than people expect.
The best way. I read my own email and answer the same day, most days before lunch.
Faster for a single question — a date, a price, whether I am free on the 14th. Not on a Saturday; I am at a wedding.
The studio
+233 30 279 4118Tuesday to Friday, nine until five. If nobody answers we are in an album meeting; leave it a half hour.
Come and look
14 Sapele Close, East LegonBy appointment, because it is one room. There is a wall of sample albums and it is genuinely the fastest way to decide.
The first message
Four lines, and the reply will actually be useful
The date
Or the two you are choosing between. This is the only thing that decides whether the rest of the conversation happens.
Where
The church or the garden, the reception, and the family house if there is an engagement. Names are enough; I probably know them.
Which days
Engagement, wedding, both, and whether you want portraits on a separate afternoon.
Roughly how many people
Fifty in a garden and four hundred in a hall are two entirely different jobs, and the number changes what I would recommend.
The studio
One room in East Legon,
and a wall of albumsTuesday to Friday, nine until five, by appointment. Saturdays are weddings and Mondays are for editing them; on Sunday I am asleep.
Where
14 Sapele Close, East Legon, Accra
When
Tuesday to Friday, 9am – 5pm, by appointment
Asked often
Three things worth checking
before you writeHow far ahead should we book?
Nine to twelve months for a November, December or January Saturday — those three months are half the year's weddings in Accra and they go first. Four to six months is usually fine for the rest of the year, and I have photographed a wedding booked eleven days out.
Do you cover the engagement as well as the white wedding?
Yes, and I would encourage it. The traditional rite is where your families actually are, in their own cloth, in a room they know. Couples who only book the Saturday almost always tell me afterwards that the engagement is the day they wish they had photographs of.
Will you travel outside Accra?
Anywhere in Ghana with no supplement — Kumasi, Cape Coast, Ho, Takoradi, Ada, Tamale. Outside the country, flights and two nights' accommodation are added at cost and nothing else is.
Bookings
Tell me about your day,
and where the light will beHalf an hour, no charge, at the studio in East Legon or on a call. I take about thirty weddings a year and one a day, so the earlier you write the more likely your Saturday is still open.
