Our Story
It began with one wedding and a borrowed car.
Esi Bonsu planned her cousin's engagement in 2009 because nobody else would. Two hundred and fifty-nine weddings later there are six of us, and the car is still borrowed.
How it started
A front room in Kwabenya
The first list was written on the back of a church bulletin. The schnapps came from a shop on Haatso road, the canopy from a man who also hired out plastic chairs, and the whole thing cost less than the dress. What Esi noticed that afternoon was not that it went well — it was that both mothers sat down for the entire ceremony, which neither of them had ever done at anybody else's.
Sixteen years on, that is still the only measure we use. Every family we work with is doing this for the first time; we are doing it for the two hundred and sixtieth. The distance between those two facts is the entire service.
Four things we will not move on
Priced in cedis
Every line of your budget is quoted in cedis before anything is booked, and it does not move unless you move it. We are paid a flat fee by you and take no commission from a single supplier — which is the only way a planner can honestly tell you a marquee is not worth what it costs.
The family first
A Ghanaian wedding belongs to two families before it belongs to two people. We sit with the aunts, we take the list seriously, and we do not quietly modernise a rite because it would photograph better.
One wedding a weekend
We turn down more work than we take. A practice running four weddings on one Saturday is a diary, not a planner, and on the day you find out which one you are.
A plan for the rain
Every outdoor wedding we run has a second wedding drawn underneath it — the tent, the floor, the generator and the twenty minutes it takes to move. It has been needed nine times in sixteen years.
Who you meet
Six of us, and one of us is yours
Your planner
One of the six of us is yours from the first meeting to the last car leaving. You have their mobile number, not a studio inbox, and they are on site all three days.
A second on the day
From four hundred guests upward a second planner joins for the day itself — one with the couple, one with the venue. Neither of them is ever the person carrying the rings.
Someone who knows the rite
Akan, Ga, Ewe, Dagomba and the several ways a mixed family does it. If we do not know your family's order of service we find the person who does and we sit with them first.
How it looks
Drawn before it is hired
Naa draws every table, every canopy and every length of cloth before a supplier is rung. You see the room as a drawing, in colour, at least six weeks out — which is the point at which changing your mind is free.
What we handleThe first conversation is an hour, costs nothing, and usually ends with us telling you what you can do yourselves.
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