My big fat Ghanaian wedding - Choosing the bridesmaids traditional material

       

In September I am celebrating my traditional Ghanaian engagement ceremony. So this weekend I was tasked with choosing the colour scheme for the day, sourcing material for my friends and female cousins for the event and also choosing the traditional Ghanaian Kente cloth for my fiancé and me.

My top tips on finding the perfect wedding dress

As you all know, I'm planning my wedding which is due take place in Feb next year. And one of the most petrifying things on my list was finding the perfect wedding dress. I am happy to say that I found my dress in a gorgeous shop in south west London and will detail my experience in later post.

So my worry was that as I am super indecisive and heard a bunch of horror stories from other brides that fell out of love with their dress, took over a year to find the perfect dress or both! But after finding my dress I am confident that it is the right dress for me and my big day.

I wanted to include some of my top tips for finding the perfect dress and staying in love with it.

Finding the dress of a lifetime – no pressure!

My wedding will be in February 2017 and I was told that it could take up to six months for a wedding dress to be made, if you’re ordering from a store that is.

I can’t lie, the dress shop was probably the part of the wedding planning which worried me the most. Looking for a dress that will be the focus of a 300 people wedding (yes 300), will adored by my hubby and not to mention, will be all over friends and families social media channels.On top of it all, I had no idea what type of dress I wanted! I felt the pressure, pretty early on.

My proposal story

My hubby (he who chooses not to be named) and I had been together nearly five years at the time of the proposal (Nov 30^th 2015) and marriage is something we had both spoken about for a while. But I had no idea when a proposal was going to come my way, but boy did it come in the best way! Grab a cup of tea and let me tell you how this went down…