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Crew building a marigold-draped mandap in a Marrakech palace courtyard at dawn

Your ground team in Marrakech

If you are running this from Mumbai, London or Dubai, we are the people on the ground. Your client relationship stays yours.

We work as the Marrakech end of weddings that are being planned from Mumbai, London or Dubai. You keep the client, the design and the relationship. We hold the venue, the permits, the suppliers, the customs paperwork and the crew, and we are the person standing in the courtyard at four in the morning when the mandap is going up.

What a ground team actually carries

Venue search against your brief and your numbers, then the contract, with the things that matter written into it rather than agreed verbally: fire permission, the noise curfew and whether it is municipal or a house rule, overnight build access, covers the kitchen has actually served, and exclusivity for your dates.

Then the supply chain. Production, decor fabrication, florals, rental, power, temporary kitchens, transfer fleets and local crew, contracted here and managed here, in the language the contracts are written in.

And the parts that only exist because it is a border: customs and freight for anything shipped, the invitation letters for a guest list applying for visas, and the permissions that need an authority rather than a supplier.

What stays yours

The client. We do not contact your couple directly unless you ask us to, we do not appear in their inbox, and we do not pitch them anything.

The design. If you have a creative direction, we build it. If you want us to propose one, we will, and it is still yours to sign off.

And the fee structure, which is between you and them. Ours is between you and us.

How we fit into your timeline

Earliest useful point is the venue shortlist, because that is where the expensive mistakes get made and where local knowledge is worth the most. A property that looks perfect in a deck and will not permit a fire is a problem best found in month two.

From there we work to your critical path rather than ours: you hold the client deadlines, we hold the ones with a Moroccan counterparty at the other end, and the second set are the ones that cannot slip.

On site we run the build and the crew, and you run the wedding. Most planners we work with come out for the final recce and then for the week itself.

What we need from you

The programme, the real guest number rather than the invited one, the muhurat or a window for it, and the dietary counts per event rather than as a total.

Anything you are shipping, early enough to clear it. And a single named decision maker on your side, because the fastest way to lose a week is two people giving a Moroccan supplier different answers.

What we take on

Venue negotiation
Rates, holds, contracts and the clauses that matter when a mandap needs building overnight.
Permits
Municipal permissions for fire, amplified sound, road access and late licences.
Supplier contracts
Negotiated and signed in Arabic and French, with terms you can read in English.
Customs
Clearance for decor, fabric, mandap components and anything else shipped in.
Production crew
Build, install and strike, working to your run sheet rather than ours.
On-site liaison
One named contact for the full run, reachable at four in the morning.

We do not take your client

Brass thali of Indian dishes laid on a dark table with marigolds and candlelight

You keep the relationship, the fee structure and the credit. We invoice you, not the family, and we do not market to your clients afterwards. Budgets in USD, GBP or INR, whichever the family works in.

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What does a destination wedding ground team do?

It holds everything that has to happen in the destination: venue search and contracting, local suppliers and crew, production, permits, customs and freight for anything shipped, transfer fleets, and management of the build on site. The planner keeps the client relationship, the design and the fee structure, and the ground team is the counterparty to every local contract.

When should a planner bring in a ground team?

At the venue shortlist stage, before anything is contracted. That is where local knowledge is worth the most, because a property that photographs beautifully and will not permit an open fire, or cannot give overnight build access, is a problem far cheaper to find in month two than in month nine.