The eighth stone is the rarest.
Juliana Olaleye
“The traditional ceremony finishes at four. The reception starts at seven. In between, a bride changes out of aso-oke and into a wedding dress, and two hundred guests need to already be back in their seats.”
Juliana Olaleye has planned more than two hundred events across the UK, and still runs the ones that matter most herself: weddings, traditional engagements, corporate galas, and the weekends that hold more than one.
She started by helping family get through their own weddings without a disaster: a cousin’s introduction ceremony, a friend’s fortieth, the kind of event where somebody has to be the one who calls the venue back. The first one she was paid for was a christening with a caterer who cancelled two days out. Nobody at that party ever found out.
Three things we believe.
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Culture isn’t a theme.
A ceremony that honours where you come from shouldn’t have to be less polished for it. We plan Nigerian, wider African and British traditions with the same care.
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Luxury is not having to worry.
Gold and florals are the visible part. The rest is a host who isn’t checking their phone all night, because every supplier and every timing has someone looking after it, and it isn’t you.
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People remember the details.
Guests forget schedules. They remember how the room smelled, the moment the lights dimmed, the song the couple walked in to.
You shouldn’t have to run your own day.
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