Weddings & celebrations · Accra
The whole of it, from the first knock.
We plan, style and run Ghanaian weddings — the knocking, the engagement and the day itself — so that the two of you can spend them being married rather than managing.
Start a conversationSince 2009, on the Aburi road
A Ghanaian wedding is three celebrations wearing one name, and the families carrying them are usually doing it for the first time. We have done it two hundred and sixty times.
weddings run
years in Accra
regions travelled
The Knocking
Six months before
The bride's family house
Kwabenya, Greater Accra
Schnapps, the list, and the two families meeting properly for the first time. We write the list with your aunts, price it, source it and pack the boot.
How we prepare itThe Engagement
The Friday before
Peduase Valley Lodge
Aburi Road, Eastern Region
The cloth, the canopy, the drums and the order of the rite. We hold the whole afternoon — the linguists, the seating, the drinks and the timing — so your mother can sit down.
What we bringThe Wedding Day
Saturday, from nine
Christ the King, then the lawn
Cantonments, Greater Accra
Church at eleven, photographs at two, the lawn at five. One of us is with the couple all day and one is at the venue from six in the morning.
How the day runs
Afterwards
“My mother cried at the knocking and not once about the knocking, which is the whole review really.”
Abena & Kwesi
From the studio
Notes we send couples anyway
Sixteen years of the same four questions, written down so you do not have to ask them.
12 June
What actually goes on the knocking list
Six bottles or twelve, and who decides. A plain reading of the Akan list, what it costs in Accra this year, and the four items families argue about.
Read the note
3 May
Marrying in the rains, on purpose
May to July is the cheapest and prettiest half of the year to marry in southern Ghana, and it is entirely survivable if the tent is booked before the date is.
Read the note
18 March
Choosing cloth that photographs
Some of the finest kente goes flat under a camera and some of the cheapest sings. What we have learnt standing behind photographers for sixteen years.
Read the noteWe would love to hear about your day.
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