Ramadan is a lunar month, so it moves about eleven days earlier each year against the calendar you are planning in. For the next several years it falls in the second half of winter, which puts it outside both of the good wedding windows and inside the quiet season. Check the dates for your year before you hold a date, because a venue will not always raise it.
What actually changes
Less than families fear and more than venues mention. Morocco does not stop, and a wedding during Ramadan is entirely possible. It is a different week, and the differences are practical rather than ceremonial.
| During Ramadan | What it means for the week | |
|---|---|---|
| Daytime service | Reduced across the city, and many places close until sunset | Daytime events are harder to staff and cater outside the venue itself |
| Alcohol | Practice varies by venue and by year, and public sale is commonly suspended | Never assume. Get the venue's position in writing before signing |
| Staff | Fasting through daylight hours in most cases | Build calls and long daytime shifts are asking a great deal. Schedule the heavy work after sunset |
| The evenings | The city is awake late and in a good mood after iftar | An evening programme fits the month better than a daytime one |
| Price and availability | Low season, so both are favourable | The saving is real. Whether it is worth it depends on your programme |
It mostly misses your window anyway
The two windows an Indian wedding here actually uses are March to May and September to November. Ramadan currently sits well before the first of those and moves further from it each year.
Where it does collide is with a winter wedding, and with the first days of March in some years. If you are looking at February or early March, check the dates specifically rather than assuming.
Eid, which is a different question
The days immediately after Ramadan are Eid al-Fitr, and the country celebrates. Suppliers take time off, staff want to be with their families, and the city is busy in a way that has nothing to do with you.
A wedding in that week is not impossible and it is the one time we will push back hard on a date. Asking a crew to build a mandap overnight during Eid is not a scheduling problem, it is a thing not to ask.
If your date lands in it
Move the programme to the evenings. An eight o'clock start is normal here in that month and the city is at its best after dark.
Settle alcohol in writing, settle the build schedule around sunset rather than around sunrise, and brief your own guests, who will otherwise wander into a closed medina at two in the afternoon and wonder what happened.