Planning & styling Accra, since 2013
Joy
Weddings · Rites Naming · Vows
We plan and style weddings, traditional rites and the celebrations in between — from the first conversation to the last car leaving the compound. Everything below is what that actually looks like.
Our story
Joy began in 2013 with one couple, one rented compound in Osu and a running order written on the back of an invitation. We have held three hundred and forty celebrations since, and the running order is longer now, but nothing else about the job has changed.
We are planners rather than a venue, a caterer or a decorator, which means we have no reason to recommend anybody but the right person. What you are buying is judgement, a supplier list built over twelve years, and somebody whose only job on the day is to make sure you never have to think about it.
More about the studio
What we plan
Six ways of working. Most couples start in the middle and move.
Full planning
From the first conversation to the last car leaving. Budget, suppliers, contracts, the running order, and a person at your elbow for every decision in between.
Partial planning
You have started and you would rather not finish alone. We take it from wherever you are, keep what is already working, and carry the rest.
On-the-day coordination
We arrive before the tent does and leave after the chairs. You hand over a plan six weeks out and stop answering your phone.
Design and styling
Colour, cloth, flowers, light and the shape of the room. Drawn properly, costed honestly, and built by people who have built it before.
Traditional rites
Knocking, engagement and the customary ceremony, held the way your families expect and timed so that the day does not run into the night.
Guests and logistics
Travel, rooms, transfers, the aunties arriving a day early. Everything your guests will ask, answered before they ask it.
12
Years planning
340
Celebrations held
6
Planners on the bench
94
%Booked by referral
The celebrations
See them all
Ama & Kwabena · Aburi
The knocking · Osu
Libation · East Legon
Selorm & Kojo · Peduase
Sixty at one table · Ridge
The two chairs · Aburi
How it works
One — the conversation
A first meeting | 60–90 minutes | No charge
We ask what the day should feel like before we ask what it should cost.
You leave with an honest budget range and a note of what we would do first.
Two — the plan
Design, suppliers and a running order | 4–8 weeks
A drawn scheme, a costed supplier list and a schedule that survives contact with a real morning.
Every quote comes to you as it comes to us. We take no commission from any supplier, ever.
Three — the day
Rehearsal, set-up and the day itself | From dawn
We are on site before the tent, and one of us stays until the last chair is on the lorry.
You are handed a phone number in the morning and asked not to use it.
“They ran a three-day weekend across two towns and I did not hold a single phone call after the Thursday.”
Afua Boateng
Married at Aburi, 2025