Journal
The same four questions, written down.
Sixteen years of couples asking us the same things at the first meeting. We started writing the answers out so the hour could be spent on something else.
26 July
What a Ghanaian wedding actually costs in 2026
We keep every ledger. Here is what four hundred guests in Accra came to last year, line by line — marquee, floor, generator, catering, cloth for both families, cars, cake, sound and photography — and which four lines swallowed sixty per cent of it. It is longer than a blog post and it has numbers in it, which is rather the point.
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The three we send first
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.
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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.
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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.
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Seasons, coasts and counting
9 January
Harmattan, and what it does to flowers
December to February is the driest, coolest, prettiest light of the year and the worst possible conditions for imported blooms. What holds, what wilts by two, and what to use instead.
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22 November
Marrying on the coast without regretting it
Ada, Prampram and Kokrobite are beautiful and they are also wind, salt, sand and no power. Six things to book before you book the beach.
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4 September
The four hundred who did not reply
Ghanaian weddings are not RSVP cultures and pretending otherwise ruins caterers. How we count, how we over-cater and how much that actually costs.
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We answer these properly whether or not you ever book us, because half of what we know we learnt from somebody else's planner answering ours.
Ask a questionSixteen years of ledgers, and we still open them.
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