Navy and gold wedding invitation with gold calligraphy and marigold petals

The Marrakech Papers

A guide to marrying in Marrakech

Numbered, and added to as we go. Everything we know about running an Indian wedding here, written down properly.

Couple seated in yellow beneath a marigold backdrop during their Haldi

The four days

A wedding told in nine chapters, from the card arriving to the car pulling away.

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Marigold-lined aisle leading to a lit mandap in a palace courtyard at dusk

Venues

Palaces and estates by capacity, and why the medina riads are ruled out.

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Guests arriving at a Marrakech palace at night with staff handling luggage

III

Guest logistics

Visas, flights, hotel blocks and transfers for three hundred people.

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Couple on a Marrakech terrace at dusk overlooking the Koutoubia minaret

Marrakech or Rajasthan

The comparison every family makes, answered honestly — including when Rajasthan wins.

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More papers are being written — catering for four hundred, and when in the year to marry. If there is something you need answered before then, ask us directly.

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