Venues & stays
Where the wedding happens decides most of what it costs and nearly all of what it feels like. These are the five we know well enough to be rude about.
Accra . Aburi . Ada . Ho
Five we know well
Where our couples marry
We have run a wedding at every one of these at least twice, which is the only reason we are willing to say what is wrong with them.
Christ the King Lawns
Cantonments, Accra
A chapel and a lawn thirty seconds apart, which removes the convoy nobody enjoys. Best before four o'clock, while the trees still hold the light on the west side.
Up to 260 seated
Ten minutes from the Airport Residential hotels
Peduase Valley
Aburi road, Eastern Region
Forty-five minutes up the hill and about four degrees cooler, which matters more in March than anybody expects. Rooms on site, so the party can go later than the road home would allow.
Up to 300 seated
62 rooms on site
The Gardens at Aburi
Aburi, Eastern Region
The oldest planting in the country, and the only venue on this list where the trees do all the design work for you. There is no cover, so the wet-weather plan is a real one.
Up to 400 seated
Guest houses in Aburi, twelve minutes
Ada Foah shoreline
Ada, Greater Accra
Two hours east and worth every minute of it, provided you accept that everything — every chair, every glass, every generator — arrives on a truck from Accra and leaves on one.
Up to 180 seated
Estuary lodges, walking distance
Ridge House lawns
Ridge, Accra
In town, which means the guests who said they could only come for an hour actually come. A hard six o'clock noise limit, so this is a lunch and an early evening rather than a late one.
Up to 220 seated
Five minutes from Ridge and Osu
Travel & stay
Where to put four hundred people
We hold the room blocks and write the travel note that goes out with the invitation, whichever service you take.
Airport Residential
Where most of the flying guests end up: four hotels within ten minutes of Kotoka and twenty of anywhere in town. Book the block by nine months out or you are booking singles.
Ridge & Osu
Older, quieter and closer to the churches. Good for the parents and for anybody who wants to walk somewhere in the evening.
Aburi & Peduase
If the wedding is on the hill, sleep on the hill. The road down at midnight in the rain is the single most avoidable risk of a Ghanaian wedding weekend.
Ada Foah
Estuary lodges, all small, all booked in one go by us or not at all. Two hours from Accra, so nobody is driving back after the party.
Asked often
The three that decide a venue
What happens if it rains?
Every outdoor wedding we run has a written wet-weather plan by the three-month mark, costed and agreed, with a decision deadline of 10am on the day. Nobody makes that call in a car park at four o'clock. Between May and June we price the marquee in from the start rather than pretending.
We are planning from London. Can that work?
About a third of our couples are abroad. We work on a fortnightly call, send a written note after every supplier meeting, and film the venue visits so you are looking at the actual room rather than at the marketing photographs. You need to be in Accra twice: once for the venue and once for the tasting.
Our guest list keeps growing. Is that a problem?
It is the normal state of a Ghanaian wedding and we plan for it. Every room we draw has thirty spare covers designed into it and every caterer we contract has a same-week variation clause, so an extra table on the Thursday is a phone call rather than a crisis.
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.
