When you’ve only got seven weeks to organise your wedding, and no wedding planner, then it’s inevitable that you’ll draw on your own little black book. Such was the case for and , whose shared love of the city they have called home for a decade, New York City, allowed them to plan an intimate and meaningful two-day ceremony in just shy of two months. The couple first met at a house party of a mutual friend in Harlem.
“Freddie had been living in Paris prior to his move to New York, but an old friend invited him to hang out uptown in Harlem one evening where we met for the first time,” shares Olamide. Freddie proposed during an unexpected visit to Paris last year, when they were invited to the opening of the exhibition of their dear friend, German-Ghanaian artist Zohra Opoku, but Freddie insists he’d asked her multiple times before. “The first was within a month of meeting,” he jokes.
When invitations went out for what initially started as a small engagement party and then became a two-day wedding celebration, the couple were keen to ensure it was an experience that was well worth the travel, with guests coming from as far afield as London, Amsterdam and Colombia, as well as from across the US. When it came to deciding on the venues for their engagement ceremony (a Nigerian Yoruba tradition) and their wedding ceremony, it was a trip down memory lane taking in the places that had shaped their decade together in New York. “The engagement party was held right in .
