2021 bridal, baby fair opens at Achimota Retail Centre tomorrow

This year’s finest opportunity for planning and shopping for soon-to-wed couples and nursing mothers comes on tomorrow as Achimota mall opens a four-day bridal and baby fair for the Ga East Municipality and adjoining communities.

The mall’s very first bridal and baby fair is bringing together a wide and varied range of specialized vendors in the wedding industry to present and demonstrate their various services as well as suppliers in the baby industry who will showcase products, resources and information about babies, from pregnancy through childbirth to safe baby care and nursing.

“Under one roof, we’ve mobilized the very best of vendors and suppliers in the bridal and baby care industries and for the next four days, starting tomorrow, August 26, you would have the chance of interacting with service providers like caterers, bridal dressmakers, florists, hairstylists, makeup artists, photo and videographers etc. and also have access to a wide range of baby care products and services,” Kobby Ampong, ARC Marketing Manager told journalists today.

Mr Ampong said due to the growing popularity of traditional marriages in Ghana, the fair focuses more on the variety and range of products and services required for the ‘exquisite’ traditional marriage which, in Ghana, is commonly referred to as the (matrimonial) ‘engagement’.

“Today, there is a strong accent on what is Ghanaian and especially what is traditional; that’s why we will see a wide range of trendy bridal clothing and accessories….and even children’s wear…...which have prominent Kente and Ghanaian bead designs and ornamentation,” Mr Ampong explained.

The fair’s list of vendors includes well known bridal accessory services and suppliers like Malisa beads, Nakus, Prettyfixx, Adorned GH, Esi’s Emporium, and Nana Aba Essentials, along with baby care specialists like Phanie Diapers, Kids World Mothercare and R.M. Maternity. Others are Accra’s cake leaders, Vonny Taste and ARC’s own celebrated make-up specialists Body Basics and clothing accessory giants MV Accessories.

Said Mrs Olivia Torpey, Centre Manager of ARC: “The purpose of this fair is to bring soon-to-wed couples, their families and friends face to face with vendors and suppliers of the relevant goods and services required for marriage ceremonies and for baby care. Whereas this fair has lined up a series of special promos and discounts for customers, it would greatly help young people to plan ahead and budget confidently for their impending marriage ceremonies.”

Achimota Retail Centre is located at Dome, near the St John’s Grammar School on the Accra-Nsawam Highway. Easily the most popular open mall in Accra, ARC houses a wide range of Ghanaian and international brands with offerings in different retail categories including, fashion and clothing, electronics, grocery and a range of alluring delicatessen and eateries.

The centre’s chain of shops is anchored by the reputed food and grocery giant, Shoprite, and by the general merchandise store, Game. The mall boasts of one of the capital’s biggest open and undercover parking spaces and a tight security regime which is delivered by a combination of manual and electronic surveillance.

Over the past six years, the centre, known by customers as Achimota Mall, has brought modern, convenient, one-stop-shopping to the underserviced south-eastern sector of Accra, including communities like Dome, Tantra Hill, Ofankor, Ashongman Estates, Kwabenya, West Legon and the Achimota township.