A Moroccan Wedding from the Medina of Fez
Gate to the old city of Fez, Morocco
A blog called “The View from Fez: Observations from the Medina of Fez in Morocco” published a nice series of photos of a traditional (if somewhat lavish) Moroccan wedding in the city of Fez. The authors of the blog were invited in 2009 to attend the wedding of Si Mohamed and Hakima, a Moroccan couple. Tom Fakler took the photographs.
The bride and groom were married a few months ago, but according to Moroccan and Islamic tradition, couldn’t begin their life together until they had celebrated properly with family and friends. The party, known as a walimah, took place at one of the wedding halls in the new city of Fez.
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- The groom Si Mohamed with his sisters
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- Henna patterns on the bride Hakima’s hands
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- Si Mohamed ready for the wedding ceremony
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- The bride and groom enter the wedding hall – Hakima wearing a splendid silver dress and carried aloft on a silver wedding chair, and Si Mohamed on horseback
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- The wedding guests are treated to a multitude of sweet cakes, mint tea and fruit juice.
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- The wedding cake is actually seven cakes around a centerpiece
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- Bride and groom start the dancing
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- There are several changes of costume for both. First the bride wears blue…
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- then bride and attendants change into lavender, as she is carried in another wedding chair
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- a traditional wedding dress with gold jewelry
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- then the bride looks like a forest queen in a green dress
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- and lastly, a traditional Western-style white dress
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- Everyone enjoys the party as bride and groom dance.
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- Gate to the old city of Fez, Morocco
