Decoration & Design
The look of the day — from the Gusaba setting at home to the reception hall. Colour, texture, flowers, fabric, light and the hundred small details that make a room feel like it belongs to you.
DecorationKigali, Rwanda
A wedding is not
one day. It is
four beginnings.
Gusaba, the civil ceremony, the church, the reception. Most couples assemble a different supplier for each. We design and dress all four — so the story holds together from the first request to the last dance.
Designed for moments that matter
Rwandan weddings are built in stages, and somewhere between the Gusaba mat and the reception hall most of them lose their thread — a different decorator, a borrowed mushanana, a hall dressed by someone who never met you. We keep the thread.
The sequence
Four ceremonies,
one hand guiding them.
- 01
Gusaba
The introduction
Two families meet and the request is made — through spokesmen, wit and proverb rather than by the couple themselves. It is the first time both sides sit facing one another, and the first time your families see what you have chosen.
- 02
The civil ceremony
The registration
The legal marriage, at the sector office. Small, brief and often underdressed — which is a missed opportunity, because it is the moment the marriage actually becomes real.
- 03
The church ceremony
The blessing
The blessing, and usually the first outing of the second look. A different setting, a different light, and a different kind of photograph.
- 04
The reception
The celebration
The largest room, the longest guest list and the highest expectations. Where design either carries the evening or quietly lets it down.
What we do
Five disciplines,
kept under one roof.
Most couples hire a decorator, then a tailor, then a caterer, then someone to run the day — and spend the months between translating between them. These five we do ourselves.
Attire & Tailoring
Mushanana for the traditional ceremonies and a modern second look for church and reception — cut and fitted for you, and for the mothers, sisters and bridesmaids who stand beside you.
AttirePlanning & Coordination
One team holding the whole sequence together, so the families can be guests at their own celebration instead of running it.
PlanningCatering
Feeding a Rwandan wedding is a logistics problem before it is a menu — hundreds of guests, a fixed hour, and a kitchen that is often not a kitchen. We plan it as part of the design rather than bolting it on.
CateringService & Protocol
The ushers, the seating of both families, the order of proceedings and the small courtesies that decide whether a ceremony feels dignified or chaotic. At Gusaba in particular, protocol is not decoration — it is the event.
ProtocolThe last hour of the night
Everything we do
is for this.
The room finally quiet enough to hear the music. The families seated. The dress doing what it was cut to do. Four ceremonies, months of decisions and a great many fittings — all of it exists to make moments like these feel inevitable.
Where the thread ends
Every thread
is held by someone.
A wedding is not assembled from services. It is held together by one person who knows what the whole thing is supposed to feel like.
La Kuzwe is not an agency that sends a stranger on the day. It is Sabine — who takes the first call, draws the room, cuts the cloth, and is standing at the back when the doors open.
She works between two wardrobes: the mushanana that carries a family's tradition, and the tailored, modern second look. Knowing how to move a bride between the two is the whole craft.
Meet SabineBegin
Tell us about
your celebration.
Whether the date is set or you are still counting rooms, the first conversation costs nothing and usually clears a great deal up.