#Jide Kola Photography (Nigerian Wedding Photographer)

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Amina and Abdul's Stylish PreWedding Shoot | Jide Kola Photography

Amina and Abdul’s Stylish PreWedding Shoot | Jide Kola Photography

Amina and Abdul had their pre-wedding session with Nigerian wedding photographer, Jide Kola Photography. We love how the couple were styled – very simple and elegant. According to Jide Kola, “every pose was a hit, every picture spot on. I’m not surprised though, the styling team is to die for.”

Enjoy!!

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Photography: Jide Kola Photography | Instagram

Makeup: Nomey J Makeovers | Instagram

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Prince Kasali & Olori Abisoye's Royal Wedding | #LoveBTween2017

Prince Kasali & Olori Abisoye’s Royal Wedding | #LoveBTween2017

The grand finale of #LoveBTween2017 held last week and it was beyond spectacular. We had Prince Kasali and his Olori Abisoye on our radar the moment we saw their pre-wedding shoot. Then they had a fantastic traditional wedding, where they both slayed.

The white wedding, planned by Trendy BEE Eventswas even better; one of the highlights of their big day was the grand entrance of their wedding…

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Cynthia & Jide Kola's #CJLoveStory Nigerian wedding will make your day!

Cynthia & Jide Kola’s #CJLoveStory Nigerian wedding will make your day!

Nigerian wedding photographer, Jide Kola said ‘I Do’ to his beautiful bride, Cynthia a few weeks ago. The couple shared their stunning proposal story in Dubai with us a while back, catch up if you missed it.

Jide and Cynthia both slayed their traditional and white wedding looks; For the traditional wedding, Jide wore a trendy agbada by Twelve19 Stylesand Cynthia looked stunning in a monotone…

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Seun and Ranti got married recently and we’ve followed their #SnR18 wedding activities from their classy pre-wedding shoot, the traditional wedding in Lagos and their white wedding in London.

Seun hired The Wardrobe Manager as her bridal stylist in January 2018. For their pre-wedding shoot with Jide Kola Photography; they worked on simple, elegant looks, which featured a red dress from Ayaba and an ivory dress from Aqaq

For the traditional wedding, Seun looked stunning in the classic motif Komole Iro & Buba in smouldering Sapphire at Deola Sagoe paired with minimal accessories and subtle makeup.

For the white wedding, she looked divine in Pronovias

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Photography: Euclase Photography

Bridal Stylist: The Wardrobe Manager

Makeup:Joy Adenuga

Hair Stylist:AVOS Hair

Dress: Pronovias

Hair: Hikkys Hair

Robe: Robes by MsAsoebi

Shoes: Louboutin World

Accessories: Elsie Joy Bridal

Planner (White Wedding): Pink Whistle PW

Traditional Wedding

Photography: Timi Oshin Studios

Bridal Stylist: The Wardrobe Manager

Planner (Traditional Wedding): LH Events

Aso Oke: Deola Sagoe

Makeup: Faces by Labisi

Purse: Bottega Veneta

Shoes: Louboutin

Accessories: (Bride’s little secret 😉)

Nails: Kenny’s Nail Bar

Pre Wedding Shoot

Photography: Jide Kola Photography

Bridal Stylist: The Wardrobe Manager

Makeup: Belapro

Hair: Cee Tee Guchi

Shoes: YSL | Bottega Veneta

Seun & Ranti’s | #SnR18 Seun and Ranti got married recently and we've followed their #SnR18 wedding activities from their classy pre-wedding shoot, the traditional wedding in Lagos and their white wedding in London.

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She was looking for a videographer and found her husband | Eniola & Nosa

She was looking for a videographer and found her husband | Eniola & Nosa

2017 feels like wedding season for Nigerian wedding vendors; everyone is getting married. The latest Nigerian vendor groom in town is Nosa, the founder of Nigerian cinematography company, The Wedding TV. Nosa met his bride, Eniola when she was needed to hire a videographer to cover her friend’s event. Eniola went from a prospective client to being Nosa’s bride. Watch them tell their story below;

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"They say when you know, you know. That was our story" - Kemi & Ben | Jide Kola Photography

“They say when you know, you know. That was our story” – Kemi & Ben | Jide Kola Photography

Kemi and Ben’s love story is truly something. The couple met at a fuel station, moved to WhatsApp and progressed slowly and surely on their journey to becoming Mr and Mrs. They shared their story and pictures from their pre-wedding shoot, traditional and white wedding with us via their wedding photographer, Jide Kola Photography.

Enjoy!!

Their story

I woke up on the morning of the 26th of…

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December at LoveWeddingsNG is a month to reflect; we always take a look back at the year to see what trends stood out. Catch up if you missed Nigerian wedding trends in 2014, 2015 and 2016.

As per previous years, we always start with a Spot the trend competition of some sort on Instagram and you all have been amazing today. We’ve enjoyed reading every comment and cannot believe how busy our comments section has been today. Thank you all so much.

This year, we tried our hardest not to repeat trends from previous years but there were a few that just had to be repeated so don’t panic if you see a trend that we highlighted last year or in the previous years. 

So without further ado, we present our Nigerian Wedding Trends list of 2017.

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1) Interesting wedding invitation cards:

This year, we saw all sorts of wedding invitation cards – some with illustrations of the couple, others were just funny, others in pidgin English. See some examples below;

2) Dramatic Bridal Bouquets: 

The bouquets this year were out of this world – from blinged out bouquets to dramatic bouquets. Remember Rewa’s garden themed bouquet by TOYLON Florals (#Lurewa) to Lara’s (from #LaraKen2017) gorgeous bouquet by Camaka Bespoke Pieces 

Wedding: #Lurewa

Bouquet: Adela’s Flowers

Photo: SC George Weddings

Photo: SC George | Bouquet: Camaka Bespoke Pieces

3) Bridesmaids in white:

The bridesmaids colour this year at a lot of weddings was white. Brides like Anita (Ms. Makor) from #Alfreds2017 weren’t afraid to share the spotlight and allow their ladies rock white.

Anita (Ms Makor) | Photo: JOP Studios

Anita (Ms Makor’s) Bridesmaids | Photo: George Okoro Weddings

Bride and Bridesmaids from #Teedot2017

4) Ankara bridal robes for brides and bridesmaids: 

Some brides rocked bridal robes but a lot of brides did it with ankara fabric. From makeup artist, Oshewa to Olori Abisoye and others, see some brides who rocked this trend in 2017.

Photo: Laphy Photography

Photo: Laphy Photography

Planner: 2706 Events | Photo: Jide Kola

Photo: JGates Visuals

5) Two Wedding Hashtags & Couples Got Creative

Last year, a lot of couples had two hashtags for their wedding and the trend continued in 2017. See some examples below;

Couple: Dami & Deji | Hashtags: ##DWedding17 #TaiDKnot

Couple: Ayo & Murewa | Hashtags: #MATieTheKnot #ReAyo17

Couple: Lola & Wole | Hashtags: #LowSho17  #GetLow17

Couple: Fatimah & Abdulrafaii | Hashtags: #ForTheRecord17 #TheFaabulousMix17

They didn’t stop there though. A lot of couples switched their hashtags up a notch by going away from the usual first/last two letters of the bride and groom’s first name + Wedding Year formula. We saw creative wedding hashtags like #DWedding17, #ForTheRecord17, #TheACEWedding2017, #CUThere17 and more

6) Stylish Bridal robes: 

Still on bridal robes, we saw a lot of feathered, tulle, illusion bridal robes this year. Wearing a bridal robe on the morning of your wedding with your bridesmaids is now officially a thing at Nigerian weddings. Brides like Bose from #BToks17, Adesua Etomi from #BAAD17, Dami from #DWedding17 and more rocked this trend.

7) Bridal gowns with illusion sleeves:

We love how brides rocked illusion sleeves on their bridal gowns this year. We spotted a number of brides like Oyeyemi (#ForeverOA17) in her stunning bridal gown by April by Kunbi and Bema from #Bemelle17. See more brides who rocked this trend below.

Photo: SC George | Bouquet: Camaka Bespoke Pieces

8) Giant letters & Name tags:

We saw this at s number of weddings this year; from #BToks17, #TheATLLoveStory, #DFlo to #TKTheWedding and more 

Photo: Alakija Studios

Photo: Keziie

Photo: 806 Photography

Photo: Photonimi

9) Grooms Lady / Best Wo(Man): All the Boss ladies, please stand up!! This trend carried over from last year, check out our Nigerian Wedding Trends 2016 post if you missed it. The Grooms ladies and best women definitely rocked Nigerian weddings this year.

At Nigerian photographer, Demola Adeniran’s wedding, there was a female best man

10) Peacock hand fans for traditional brides: We really felt sorry for peacocks this year, our Nigerian brides looked at their gorgeous feathers and plucked them all. Spot some brides who used the peacock feathered hand fan at their traditional wedding from Oyin Adenuga, to #ASK17 and more

Photo: BMPro

#ASK2017

11) Stunning grand wedding cakes:

From extra grand wedding cakes, naked cakes to really creative designs – marble, water colour, wooden effect icing and more, the bakers went all out this year for Nigerian weddings.

12) Brides wearing multiple outfits for their traditional wedding: For clarity, we’ve defined multiple as anything over three outfit changes for the traditional wedding. Adesua Etomi (#BAAD17) wore four outfits by Toju Foyeh for her traditional wedding.

Adesua Etomi wore four outfits for her traditional wedding. All her outfits were made by Toju Foyeh | Illustration: Lean Kid

We also spotted a bride this year who wore over 7 outfits at her traditional wedding.

13) Studio PreWedding Shoots:

More couples took their prewedding shoots in a studio; from #BToks2017, #YoungandRichRR, #MATieTheKnot to #WWForever.

14) Singing brides and grooms:

Our brides, grooms or both of them in some cases took to the mic on their big day. We saw this at Ayo Thompson’s wedding and also at a wedding where the bride sang an original song as she walked to meet her groom down the aisle.

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Timi and Oma from #TimiwedsOma2016 both sang at their wedding. We’ve added this to the 2017 list as they got married in December 2016 :). Watch the clip below by videographer, Christiana Andrews.

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15) Grass Photo walls / Backdrops:

A lot of photo walls at Nigerian weddings in 2017 were green and grassy. See some examples below from Chiamaka & Alex, Kemi & Abim, #JayTee18 and more.

16) Themed Weddings: 

All sorts of themes this year from a #BOLD17‘s 007 themed wedding, #SMLove17‘s farm themed traditional wedding and their aquatic themed white wedding, Dami & Deji’s (#DWedding17) Oleku vintage traditional wedding to their Alice in Wonderland themed white wedding and more

17) Palm wine:  

Palm wine was readily available at a lot of Nigerian weddings this year, thanks to people like Ofada boy.

18) Monotone traditional bridal outfits (same colour head to toe)

Traditional brides rocked monotone (one colour head to toe) looks this year.

19) Beaded Aso oke / Traditional Bridal outfits: 

Traditional bridal aso oke fabrics were heavily beaded and sparkling in 2017. Check these brides out

20) Fog guns

The special effects team took it up a notch. We’ve seen sparklers, low fog, balloon drops in previous years at Nigerian weddings but this year saw the introduction of fog guns. From #BAAD17 to #BOLD17 and more

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21) Joint Instagram wedding accounts: 

This was on our list last year but this year it definitely trended. No thanks to all our Instagram marketers and sellers (side eye), more couples are now choosing to create joint wedding accounts on Instagram to  We predict joint couple Instagram accounts will replace wedding hashtags in the next few years.

22) Doughnut Walls

#TheBanjokos17

#LexyLabs17

23) Illustrations: 

They’ve been trending for a while now so it’s almost no longer a trend. However, you know how much we love illustrations 🙂 we just couldn’t help it

24) Twins getting married on the same day

Nigerian Wedding Trends 2017: Joint Couple Instagram Accounts, Bridesmaids in White, Funny Wedding Invites, Grand Wedding Cakes and More December at LoveWeddingsNG is a month to reflect; we always take a look back at the year to see what trends stood out.

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35 Years later, celebrating photographer, Jide Kola's parents | #BollyKolly82

35 Years later, celebrating photographer, Jide Kola’s parents | #BollyKolly82

35 years, four children and four grandchildren later, Nigerian wedding photographer – Jide Kola treated his parents to a destination photo session in Canada. 

In Jide’s words, “KOK and his sweetheart had the destination prewedding session they never had.” 

We present #BollyKolly82 

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Photography:  Jide Kola Photography