Journal
What we would want to read first.
Budgets, seasons, suppliers and traditional rites — written as though we were not trying to sell you anything, because mostly we are not.
This month
What a hundred and fifty guests really costs in Accra
Five lines move a wedding budget more than everything else put together, and four of them are not the ones couples worry about. Real 2026 numbers from weddings we actually ran, with what we would cut first.
The journal
Everything else worth reading first.
What a hundred and fifty guests really costs in Accra
The five lines that move a wedding budget more than anything else, with real 2026 numbers from weddings we actually ran.
Planning a December wedding around the harmattan
Dust on white linen, dry flowers and light that turns orange an hour early. What to change, and what not to bother changing.
One weekend, two ceremonies, one crew
How to run the engagement on Friday and the white wedding on Saturday without asking your family to do it twice.
Also
Shorter notes from the office.
The knocking list, and who actually writes it
Drinks, cloth, the ring and the money — what each family expects, what has changed since your parents did it, and how to ask without causing an argument.
A wet-weather plan that is not just a marquee
The three decisions to make in advance so that moving indoors takes eleven minutes rather than an hour, and nobody arriving late ever knows it happened.
How to brief a photographer in one page
The shot list is the least useful part. What actually matters is the order of the day, the light, and the fifteen people whose names they need to know.
Speeches: three, short, and before the food
Why we move them earlier every single time, what happens when a family insists on nine, and the sentence that gets an uncle off the microphone kindly.
Enquiries for 2026 and 2027
Tell us about your day.
Write to us with the date and roughly how many people, and we will send back availability, a fee and two or three ideas within the week.