Journal
Notes from the production office
Written by the people who ran the events they describe — including the parts that went wrong.
The archive
Everything else we have written down
Written by the producers who ran the events they are about, which is why some of it is blunter than a blog usually is.
The seating chart is a scheduling problem, not a diplomatic one
Why we build the table plan backwards from the kitchen's timings, and what changes when four hundred people have to eat at once.
Your reception band needs a soundcheck you will never hear
Ninety minutes with an empty room is the difference between a full dance floor at ten o'clock and a polite one at eleven.
Planning for rain in a country with two rainy seasons
The marquee is the easy part. The generator, the cable runs and the guest walkway decide whether the evening survives.
Two families, two ideas, one weekend
Running traditional rites and a white wedding as a single production rather than as two events that happen to share a couple.
Where a wedding budget actually goes
A real breakdown of a GHS 140,000 wedding for two hundred and forty people, line by line, with the three lines everybody underestimates.
How to book traditional drummers properly
What to ask, what to pay, how long they should play for, and why the answer to 'can they just do twenty minutes' is usually no.
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Tell us the date. We will take it from there.
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