Questions
Asked at nearly every first meeting.
If yours is not here, write and ask it. We answer these whether or not you ever book us.
Before you book
How far ahead should we come to you?
Twelve to eighteen months for a Saturday between November and March, which is when most of Accra marries. Eight months is workable. Under eight we will be honest about which parts we can still do properly, and we have run a good wedding in eleven weeks.
We live abroad. Does that work?
About half our couples do. Everything happens on video calls scheduled at your hour rather than ours, venues are walked through on a phone, contracts are signed digitally and the supplier ledger is open to you at any hour of any day. Several couples have seen the venue for the first time on the Friday.
Our families do the rite differently. Will you know it?
Akan, Ga, Ewe and Dagomba orders we know. Beyond those — and for the many families who do it their own way — we sit with your elders first, write it down, and run what they tell us. We have never once suggested a family shorten a rite because it would photograph better.
Do you deal with the church?
Yes, including the banns, the marriage counselling dates, the choir, the organist's fee and the four things every parish office asks for at the last minute. We know the offices at Christ the King, Holy Spirit, Legon Interdenominational and around twenty others.
Can we use our own suppliers?
Always. Your cousin's cake, your father's friend's marquee, the photographer you have wanted since university — we contract and manage them exactly as we would our own. The only thing we ask is that they are contracted rather than promised.
The honest answer
Most of this is weather and arithmetic
Almost nothing that goes wrong at a Ghanaian wedding is a surprise. It rains in May, the power goes, more people come than said they would and the church runs long. A planner is not somebody who prevents those; a planner is somebody who has already written down what happens when they occur.
On the day itself
What happens if it rains?
Every outdoor ceremony we run has a second wedding drawn underneath it: tent, flooring, generator, and a rehearsed twenty minutes to move everybody under cover. It has been needed nine times in sixteen years and nobody has eaten late yet.
And the lights?
A generator is on every quotation we write, sized to the sound, the lighting and the caterer's warmers, with fuel for twice the hours. It is the single most common thing couples try to cut and the one we argue hardest about.
Nobody in Ghana replies to invitations. How do you count?
We count from the two families' lists rather than from replies, apply sixteen years of arithmetic to each, and cater above the number. It costs a little more and it is why nobody at one of our weddings has ever been told the food has finished.
Can you do two celebrations in one weekend?
Regularly — engagement on the Friday, church and lawn on the Saturday. It needs a second planner and a great deal more tenting logic, both of which are quoted plainly. What we will not do is two different couples in one weekend.
We only want forty people. Are we too small?
No. The smallest we have run was fourteen in a garden in Aburi and it remains one of our favourites. The work is the same shape at any size; only the number of things that can go wrong changes.
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