“For Kenyan born Ngetha and American-South African Zoe, their love story reached a very significant chapter with a stunning spring wedding hosted at Summer Place in Johannesburg and attended by friends and family from all over the world.”

For many of our clients, their love story crosses continents and cultural borders and at Wedding Concepts, we make it our business to bring it all together beautifully on one very special day. For Kenyan born Ngetha and American-South African Zoe, their love story reached a very significant chapter with a stunning spring wedding hosted at Summer Place in Johannesburg and attended by friends and family from all over the world.

Zoe & Ngetha’s celebration was filled with beautiful traditions, sentiments and heartfelt hints about their journey together as a couple. A Kenyan wedding tradition is that the women from the groom’s family collect the bride on the day of the ceremony. They greet her outside her place of dressing with joyful songs passed down from generations. The bride then exits when she is ready and the ladies place traditional colourful Kenyan cloths and material for the bride to walk over to the wedding car.

The ceremony took place in the Jacaranda Garden which is a striking setting as the majestic jacaranda trees watch over on either side. Once the couple were officially announced as husband and wife tribal dancers greeted them at the end of the aisle with singing and dancing and lead them and their guests to the Rose Garden for pre-dinner drinks.

The grand Apollo Ball Room was filled with a soft romantic colour palette of pink, white, cream and green. Each table had unique candle variations, a delicate mix of glass, ceramic and perspex to add interest and depth to the setting. The ball room was flooded with ruby and pink intelligent mood lighting and a personalised gobo added the couple’s animated insignia to the dance floor. The table numbers were replaced with names of places that the couple had visited together with the significance of each place explained on the back. The stunning 4 tier wedding cake brought through the colour scheme once more, but a surprise Gilbert rugby ball shaped cake for Ngetha stole the show. Iced with his rugby number “10” it was a loving surprise from the new Mrs Waithaka. Another sweet surprise for guests were the individual and personalised M&M wedding favours which had Zoe & Ngetha’s faces printed on every single one!

The fantastic Tokyo Groove band played upbeat jazzy tunes during dinner and really kicked off the party after the first dance with fantastic covers of Earth, Wind & Fire, Kool and the Gang, Eddy Grant and Brenda Fasie but to name a few. DJ Wandy took over late into the evening to provide a current selection of dance music which kept guests partying till the early morning!

Photos by Tyme Photography