The journal
Things worth reading before you book anything
Everything here is something we have been asked in a first meeting and then had to explain again the following week.
What a Ghanaian wedding weekend actually costs in 2026
A hundred and fifty guests, two ceremonies, a real caterer and a real sound system, priced line by line from quotes we hold this year. Not a range — the actual sheet, with the three places couples are most often surprised.
More from the studio
Written for couples planning it themselves as much as for ours.
Knocking, engagement, white: choosing the order
Three ceremonies, two families and one weekend. How couples actually sequence them, what each side expects to happen first, and the two orders that reliably cause an argument.
Harmattan or the rains: what the season does to a day
December light is the best of the year and the dust will ruin a white cloth by four. June will rain for forty minutes and then stop. Planning around both, rather than hoping.
The guest list conversation nobody enjoys
Two hundred names, a hundred and twenty seats and four parents. A method that gets you there without anybody feeling cut, tested over about three hundred lists.
Kente, lace and the case for one fabric
Choosing a single cloth for the family and letting everything else follow it. Why it costs less, photographs better, and stops a compound looking like four different weddings.
How to read a caterer's quote
Per head, service charge, staff transport, corkage, breakages. The five lines that turn a good number into a bad one, and the questions that get them out in the open.
Once a month
One letter a month: what we learned on the last celebration, what a supplier has quietly changed about their pricing, and one venue we walked. No offers, because we do not have any.