The Studio
Six people, and one of them is yours.
We are small on purpose. A practice large enough to run four weddings on one Saturday is a diary; on the day you find out which of the four you were.
The practice
Everyone you will meet
Esi Bonsu
Founder, lead planner
Started the practice from her mother's front room in 2009. Has run every one of the two hundred and sixty.
Adjoa Mensimah
Planner, traditional rites
Knows the Akan, Ga and Ewe orders of service, and which aunt to ring first in each.
Naa Ayeley Quaye
Design and styling
Draws every table, every canopy and every cloth before a single thing is hired.
Kwabena Asare
Production and venues
On site from six in the morning. Owns the relationship with every marquee firm from Accra to Aburi.
Yaa Antwiwaa
Guests and hospitality
Runs the list, the seating and the four hundred people who all arrive at once.
Kojo Dartey
Suppliers and budgets
Prices everything in cedis before it is booked, and tells you when something is not worth it.
Where we all are on the day
From six
Kwabena is at the venue before the marquee crew. Floor down, generator tested, chairs counted against the plan and the first delivery signed for.
From nine
Your planner is with you wherever you are getting ready. Naa is at the venue dressing tables against her own drawing, not against a photograph on somebody's phone.
From two
Yaa takes the door. Seating, the dietary list, the eleven who did not reply and the two who came to the wrong venue.
Until it is done
Somebody from this studio is the last person to leave every wedding we run. Hired goods counted back, gifts locked in one car, and the family sent home.
We take one person a year
Usually somebody who has run a wedding of their own family's and found they liked the part everybody else hated. There is no course for this and we have stopped looking for one.
What we look forWe would love to hear about your day.
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