Moroccan weddings

 Moroccan weddings share their diversity in many details, including :

Going to the Hamam

The first step in a wedding is to go to the Hamam. Where the bride goes with some very close women to the traditional public bath, and the women help her to shower, during which the wedding songs are sung to her.

Henna Party 

A party is held before the wedding day with her close relatives and friends, as Henna has been used in Morocco for centuries to draw beautiful designs on the hands and feet of the bride and her guests

Preparing the bride 

A group of women is devoted to preparing the bride, decorating it and caring for her dress and beauty to look at her best, where the bride wears the traditional Moroccan wedding dress, which is a dress made of silk and colored in bright colors, and a transparent cloak embroidered with golden thread is placed on it, although the clothes Weddings in Morocco differ from one region to another, but they share colors, decoration, and color meanings. For example, it is worn yellow to ward off evil, and green to bring good luck.

Preparing food and music.

The family prepares a group of chefs to prepare all kinds of food sufficient for large numbers of guests,  where pasta is cooked, for example, fish, and making some sweets like almonds covered with sugar, while music accompanies wedding days and dances for guests throughout the night, and they use the following tools The drum, the tambourine, the machine of law, etc., and the women and men parties are separate separately.

Request the bride's hand.

Marriage ceremonies begin after the first meeting between the newlyweds with a step called the engagement stage, and once the bride’s family accepts the request for engagement, preparations for marriage begin immediately, agreement on the dowry and on the date of the marriage. Legal documents.

Marriage traditions differ in Morocco depending on the city, and here are some examples of this difference Marrakesh and Rabat

The Marrakesh wedding 

The details of the Marrakesh wedding begin after a month or several months of the sermon, where the ceremony (or defenses) at which the Koran ceremony is held, and the various gifts for the bride, including sacrifice, sugar, oil, flour, and some clothes, are presented, while the groom starts with this All of them came to the bride's house with a procession of songs and bulbs for the bride to greet him warmly, and they placed a white handkerchief on her head with a quantity of henna mixed with blossom water and an egg in the middle of it; For the bride’s brother to hatch it, this joy counts by having children, God willing - according to their beliefs, while the groom provides milk and dates for her as a token of love and harmony On this day, it is agreed on the date of the wedding ceremony that takes place in the bride’s house first several days interspersed with some rituals such as rituals Wheat purification, in which women purify wheat with the bride and her mother collectively, while the ritual (the henna of counterfeiters) means collecting a number of dirhams from which each woman pays one dirham to buy henna that is mixed with herbs later for the bride's body to be coated, while the ritual continues to reach a ritual (The visit) in which the bride visits a known guardian, and washed the ends of it from the fountain of this mausoleum, and the rest of the common rituals - mentioned below - are held consecutively before the bridegroom comes in the middle of the night to take the bride to his home, where it is carried on (Al Amaria) over The heads of the Riffa are there, while it started at the same time and a week ago a ritual for the groom and his family in his home among his lovers and friends to celebrate him and his marriage.

The Rabat wedding :

The details of the Rabat wedding vary to extend to seven days with full nights, in which the groom's family presents gifts to the bride's family in a procession fraught with helix and folk songs called (the gift) while simplifying the bride's apparatus and the clothes she bought in one of the rooms of the groom's house after being transferred to it and called This habit (with a chain link), this offer also includes a set of bride's clothes and holdings since she was a child, while the makfa - decorated - on the wedding day celebration, prepares and decorates the bride with traditional clothes consisting of three dresses, the first of which is the lace dress, while the groom, called ( The Sultan) his minister who chooses himself and a group of friends to cut his hair and help him in the process of preparing for the wedding, to be transported after a private procession to the groom's house and that night is called (Al-Rouah).

I just wanted to share with you this wonderful Nomadic Berber wedding in Morocco .