It started with a bride, a box, and a bow.
Hi, I’m Ekemini, founder and creative director of Ivory & Ribbon. Before this was a brand, it was me, a bride, a few quiet evenings, and the simple joy of watching the people I loved open something made just for them.
The wedding that started it all.
In 2024, I became a bride. Somewhere between the dress fittings and the seating charts, I found the part of wedding planning I loved most, curating the gifts.
I spent evenings sourcing pieces for my bridesmaid proposal boxes, and for the two women who raised me and my now-husband: my mother, and my mother-in-law.
What I remember most isn’t the boxes themselves. It’s the unboxing: the pause, the surprise, the feeling of being thought of. That feeling stayed with me long after the wedding did.
Not every bride wants to build the box herself.
I noticed something else, too. Not every bride loves curating the way I did, and when they went looking for help, most of what they found felt the same: generic bridesmaid boxes filled with items that would be forgotten within a week. Nothing that felt sourced with care. Nothing worth discovering.
Brides deserved better, not more items, just better ones. Gifts chosen from brands worth knowing, packaged the way a gift should be, and built to be kept long after the wedding was over.
“Every bride deserves to enjoy her wedding season, and to give gifts that are never forgotten.”
An idea that waited for its moment.
Ivory & Ribbon lived as an idea in my head for almost two years: a folder of inspiration, a name I loved, a feeling I couldn’t quite let go of.
Then came my postpartum season, home with my newborn daughter, in the quiet, disorienting early days of new motherhood.
Somewhere in that season, something shifted. I didn’t want to let motherhood swallow the parts of me that still wanted to build. So instead of waiting for the “right” time, I started, sourcing, sketching, and testing, determined to give my daughter something to look up to one day.
Why intentionality is the whole point.
Outside of Ivory & Ribbon, I’m an emotional intelligence coach, podcast host, and the author of Emotions in His Image.
It’s a faith-based book on understanding what we feel and why. I’ve spent years studying what makes people feel truly seen, and that’s the same instinct behind every box I curate.
Gift-giving is my love language, in both directions. I believe packaging matters, presentation matters, and the way something is given can matter as much as what’s inside. That belief, paired with a quiet, steady faith, is the thread that runs through everything Ivory & Ribbon makes.
Ivory & Ribbon
Not white, but ivory. Softer, warmer, more luxurious. The color of my own wedding gown, and the color I think of first when I think of bridal.
Because no gift feels finished without one. It’s the detail that turns something ordinary into something given with care.
Together, the name holds both halves of what this brand is to me: bridal, and intentional gifting, tied together, literally and otherwise.
An experience, not just a box.
My hope is simple: that one day, “I got an Ivory & Ribbon box” becomes shorthand for what it feels like to be in your wedding era: celebrated, considered, and given something you’ll actually keep.
As we grow, we’re excited to partner with other brands we admire, continually sourcing new luxury pieces so that every collection keeps evolving. But the mission will stay exactly the same as it was on day one: everybody deserves at least one moment of unboxing something beautiful, made just for them.
EkeminiFounder & Creative Director, Ivory & Ribbon