A wedding that is entirely yours
‘30 minutes to explore your celebration vision’
Derin Klos is a European destination wedding and celebration studio built specifically for the diaspora bride: the Nigerian-British woman planning in Tuscany, the Indian-Australian bride choosing Portugal, the Ghanaian-American woman who wants every part of who she is present in France.
The studio plans full wedding weekends and milestone celebrations across Italy, France, Portugal, Spain, Greece, Poland, and the UK, entirely from where you are, across every time zone, built around a diaspora bride's whole self, not a translation of her.
Founded by Derin; ex-finance, detail-obsessed, and a Nigerian-British diaspora bride herself. The studio exists because the planner who truly understood a diaspora bride’s whole self - and could deliver it, from a distance, in Europe - did not exist. So Derin became her.
Real Celebrations
Here you will find a documentation of real destination weddings and intimate celebrations planned by Derin Klos. The brief, the cultural decisions, the vendor challenges, the language architecture, the outcome. The detail that most planners keep behind closed doors.
More celebrations are being documented and added here. Each one a different woman, a different story, the same standard.
Client Love
“I can’t thank Derin enough for making my engagement proposal an absolute dream come true. From the very first conversation, she was incredibly warm, attentive, and genuinely excited to help bring my vision to life.
The proposal took place in a different country, and to my amazement, Derin personally traveled to the venue a full month in advance to scout the location, test the setup, and ensure every detail would be perfect. That level of dedication completely blew me away. The day itself was pure magic, more beautiful than I could have ever imagined, and my fiancée was over the moon because it was truly everything she had ever dreamed of.
Derin didn’t just plan a proposal; she created a memory we will cherish for the rest of our lives. If you want someone who cares as much about your special moment as you do, Derin is simply the best. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!”
WO, 2025
“There is something extraordinary about watching someone you love operate at the height of their professional ability, and then getting to be the beneficiary of it. Derin is my partner. She is also, without question, the reason our wedding was everything we dreamt it could be and more things we had not thought to dream. We had forty guests from three countries, two cultures, and two languages.
She found a venue where everyone stayed under one roof , which sounds simple until you understand what it took to find the right property, negotiate the terms, coordinate arrivals from Nigeria and the UK, manage transfers from the airport, and ensure that guests who spoke only Polish and guests who spoke only English never once felt on the outside of their own celebration.
I cannot recommend Derin enough, as a planner, and as the person who knew exactly what this weekend needed to be before I had the words for it myself.”
