About us
The people behind about ninety days a year
Planning, production, sound and live music under one roof in Accra — and a limit on how many events we take, so the promise still means something.
Who we are
One team, from the first sketch to the last van.
Ivory began in 2013 with one marquee, a borrowed PA and a wedding in Aburi that nearly did not happen. The generator failed forty minutes before the ceremony. We carried the whole rig up the hill by hand and started eight minutes late, and the couple never knew.
That is still roughly how we work. Everything is in-house — the planning, the stage build, the sound, the lighting and the band — because the alternative is three companies pointing at each other while a bride waits. It costs us more. It is the only reason we can promise anything at all.
We take about ninety events a year and turn down more than that. The limit is not capacity, it is the number of days the same three producers can personally stand behind.
Years producing events in Ghana
Weddings, launches and shows delivered
Bands and artists on our roster
Full-time planners, riggers and engineers
How we work
Four steps, and no surprises in any of them
The same sequence whether it is a hundred people in a garden or two thousand in a conference hall.
We listen, once, properly
Ninety minutes, no slides. The date, the headcount, the budget you actually have, and the two or three things that would ruin it for you.
We draw it before we price it
A floor plan, a run of show and a sound and lighting plot. You see the evening on paper before anybody asks you for a deposit.
We build it with our own crew
Our riggers, our desk, our band. The people who load in at six in the morning are on our payroll, which is why the schedule holds.
We run it, and we stay
A producer on comms from doors to strike. We are the last vehicle out of the car park, every time, and the venue gets its space back clean.
The people
Who you will actually be working with
There is no account manager between you and the person running your day. These four are it.
Afia Boateng
Founder & creative director
Twelve years and about six hundred weddings. Draws every floor plan by hand first.
Kojo Mensah
Head of live production
Toured with three of the acts on our roster before he started booking them.
Serwaa Antwi
Weddings lead
Runs the traditional rites side. Speaks Twi, Ga, Ewe and the language of caterers.
Nii Armah
Technical director, sound & stage
Owns the desk, the plot and the opinion that monitors matter more than the PA.
Four rules
The things we say no to
We will not take two events on the same day. Ever, for any fee.
We will not quote before we have seen the venue, or photographs and a floor plan of it.
We will not put a band on a stage we have not rigged and soundchecked ourselves.
We will not add a line to an invoice after you have signed it without asking you first.
Adjoa & Kwabena Sarpong
They ran our traditional rites in Kumasi on the Friday and the white wedding in Accra on the Saturday, and I did not make a single phone call on either day. The band they found us is still the thing our guests talk about.
Wedding, Kumasi & Accra
Let us begin
Tell us the date. We will take it from there.
A first conversation costs nothing and takes about half an hour. Bring the date, a rough headcount and whatever you have already imagined.
