My traditional Ghanaian wedding!

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I know I've been gone for a while, but life just got ahead of me. Really good things have happened, I've changed my role at work, moved in with my fiancé' and had my Ghanaian traditional wedding!

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.

Monsoon Rose Gold - My wedding guest fragrance review

This weekend I attended a good friend’s wedding and wanted to make a big impression, so I selected Monsoon’s first-ever fragrance, Rose Gold, to help me achieve it. 

Why I'm happy to drop my last name and am not looking back

 

Since being engaged I’ve been asked numerous times if I would be adopting my husband-to-be’s last name. To me it was no brainer, ever since I comprehended the concept of marriage (age four or five) I always knew my days of being Miss Candida Lathbridge were numbered, and I’ve always accepted that. But after reading this radical article on Cosmo entitled ‘In the Age of the Internet, Changing Your NameWhen You Marry Is a Terrible Idea’ I was compelled to write about my reasons for my decision.