The journal
Everything we get asked twice, written down so we can send a link instead of an email.
Six pieces . Written in Accra
July 2026 · 6 min · Latest
How early is too early to send the invitations?
Twelve weeks for a wedding in Accra, sixteen if half the guest list is flying, and the save-the-date does not count. What the post actually does in December, and why a WhatsApp broadcast is not a substitute.
Everything else
The rest of the journal
Written for the couple planning it themselves as much as for ours. If a piece here saves you the fee, we would rather you had it.
May 2026 · 8 min
Planning around the rains, honestly
May and June are not unbookable, they are expensive. What a wet-weather plan actually costs, when a marquee is the wrong answer, and the two weeks in October nobody warns you about.
March 2026 · 9 min
What actually happens at a knocking ceremony
For the partner marrying into it, and for the aunt organising it. The list, the order, the money, and the four things that go wrong when nobody has written any of it down.
January 2026 · 7 min
Seating four hundred people without a war
Ghanaian guest lists grow after the invitations go out. How we build a plan that can absorb thirty extra people on the Thursday without redrawing the room.
November 2025 · 5 min
Flowers that survive an Accra afternoon
What is grown here, what has to be flown in, and what wilts between the photographs and the first course. A seasonal list, with prices we actually paid.
September 2025 · 11 min
Where the money actually goes
A real budget from a real 240-guest wedding, line by line, with the four items that always cost more than couples expect and the two that never do.
Free to take
Three things we will send you
Whether or not you ever hire us. Ask by email and they arrive the same day.
The eighteen-month checklist
Two sides of A4, in order, with the four deadlines that actually cannot move marked in bold. Free, and we will post it to you.
The knocking list
What each family traditionally brings, region by region, and what it costs in 2026. The single most-downloaded thing we have written.
Questions to ask a caterer
Eleven of them. Ask all eleven and you will not be surprised by an invoice in March.
Enquiries for 2027 are open
Tell us about your day
One conversation, an hour, no charge and no obligation — at the studio on Ridge, or over a call if you are not in Accra yet.
