Our history
One wedding in 2014, planned on a borrowed clipboard for no fee. A hundred and forty-eight of them since.
2014 . 2026
Eleven years
How the studio got here
Nearly all of it learned the expensive way, on somebody's actual wedding day.
2014
One wedding, one planner
Adjoa left a conference company on the Friday and planned a friend's sister's wedding at Labadi on the Saturday six weeks later. A hundred and ten guests, a borrowed clipboard, and no fee.
2016
The first four hundred
A two-day wedding in Tema that needed three caterers and a generator we had not budgeted for. We learned to write the wet-weather plan down and to price the spare generator in.
2018
Kwabena, and a Monday
The first production director, hired because the founder had spent a Monday returning three hundred chairs herself. The studio has never struck a wedding alone since.
2019
The room on Ridge
A long table, a wall for fabric, and somewhere to build a mock-up. Couples stopped meeting us in hotel lobbies, which changed the conversations more than we expected.
2021
Ninety guests, and a rule
The year weddings got small and the work got closer. We came out of it having decided to take one a month for good, and turned down eleven in the following twelve.
2022
Design brought in-house
Mansa joined and we stopped subcontracting the look of the day. Every room since has been drawn to scale and photographed as a mock-up six weeks out.
2024
Out of Accra
Ho, Ada, Cape Coast and Kumasi in one year. Everything on a truck, everything back on the Monday, and a supplier book that now covers six regions.
2026
A hundred and forty-eight
Six planners, twelve celebrations a year, and a diary that is open for 2027. The clipboard is still in the studio, in a drawer, and it is still borrowed.
From the founder
I did not set out to plan weddings. I set out to stop watching people I loved spend eighteen months frightened of a Saturday. Everything this studio does comes from that — the one-a-month rule, the budget you can see, the fact that we sit with both families before anybody books anything. A wedding in Ghana is not an event, it is two families agreeing to become one in front of four hundred witnesses, and the only useful thing a planner can do is make sure nobody has to think about the chairs.
Adjoa Mensimah · Founder, Gala
Unchanged since 2014
Three things
Everything else about this studio has been rebuilt at least once. These three have not moved, and two of them cost us money every year.
One wedding a month, and never two
No commission from any supplier
Both families, before anything is booked
11
Years planning in Accra
148
Celebrations run in full
62
k
Guests seated and fed
6
Regions we work across
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.
