Morocco it is one of the gems of the North Africa. This country has very rich and active traditions. Like other cultures of the world, a Morocco wedding is a great gala event and it celebrates with great fun and festivals.
A traditional Morocco wedding process can lasts from 4 to 7 days. There are some pre-wedding ceremonies before the wedding actually. They are including sending gifts and presents to bride, if the groom’s parents are rich they usually send golden jewelry, cloth or perfumes. According to the Moroccan wedding traditions, parents would choose the bride for their son or the groom for their daughter.

There is another traditional pre-wedding ceremony, when women and female friends of bride have a party where the bride executes a sort of a “milk bath” to purify her. The bride’s guests usually older married woman, friends and relatives help to beautify the bride. They help her dress in a richly decorated wedding kaftan, usually white. Adorn her with heavy jewelry, and beautify and darken her eyes with kohl.

The night before the wedding the bride and other older women gather together for the henna ritual. On this ritual married women share the secrets of marriage with the bride. Henna artists paint the hands and feet of the bride and her party with Henna. Bride’s hands are painted tangled designs; usually they are floral and geometrical designs. The groom’s name usually is hidden in the henna designs. The party continues with fun and music, tea and cookies. Sometimes the Moroccan bride circles her marriage home three times before wedding ceremony.

On the wedding day delicious food is prepared for the guests. In old times the bride and the groom would celebrate these festivities separate. At some point in the evening the groom would move towards the bride party, accompanied with his family members, relatives and friends who sing, beat drums and dance.

Later, the bride changes into a traditional outfit that reflects her family's region of Morocco, and the party continues. Around dawn, the bride changes her outfit; Morocco brides change dresses and jewelry several times during the wedding ceremony.

During the week after wedding, the newlyweds visit their relatives and friends and invite them for their new home.

In the modern times customs have changed a lot.

Nowadays young people choose their own wedding partners alone, not their parents. Also about 30 years ago, guests would retire to a special room to complete the wedding, and later they would examine the bedclothes for blood, to satisfy that the bride was a virgin. Today, however, the newlyweds are afforded more privacy.