Extraordinary weddings in the Sahara Desert, Morocco
Discover the extraordinaryA place unlike anywhere else
Far beyond the familiar, where golden dunes stretch towards the horizon and the night sky reveals a thousand stars, lies a place unlike anywhere else on Earth.
A place to make a promise. To gather the people you love. To celebrate a story that is entirely your own.
Welcome to the Sahara.
Your wedding takes place in a private camp on the edge of the rolling dunes. There are no walls here, only the horizon. Just dunes, silence and the people you love, with everything thought through for the desert and looked after by us.
Privacy. Intimacy. The quiet thrill of somewhere very few people ever go.
All included
From the minute your guests touch down in Morocco to the minute they leave, we handle everything. Planning a wedding in a far-off desert shouldn’t feel like running an expedition, so we take it all on, and you simply arrive and enjoy it.
We are there when your guests land in Morocco. Every transfer, from the airport to the last stretch of sand, by road, 4x4 or camel, is arranged and looked after.
A private camp on the edge of the rolling dunes, with no other guests and no other events.
Entirely yours to shape: its words, its rituals, its length, its mood. Held in the dunes, and arranged and looked after by us.
Draped linen, woven rugs, lanterns and flowers, designed to sit beautifully in the landscape.
Long candlelit tables and a feast prepared for your guests, in the way the desert does it best.
Local Saharan musicians and drummers, a desert blues band, or your own playlist, as the fire is lit and the stars come out.
Tented and desert accommodation for the couple and their guests.
Timings, logistics and the thousand small things in between, right through to the moment your guests leave. We hold all of it.
Under a thousand stars
Lanterns are lit along the sand. A fire is built. Drums carry across the dunes, and for the first time all day the desert goes quiet enough to hear your own heartbeat. Then you look up.
The art of an extraordinary celebration
A ceremony on a dune at golden hour. A long supper under open sky. Local drummers, lanterns, a fire, and then a sky full of stars. The desert sets the stage, and we have shaped the whole experience around it so that it simply works, beautifully. You bring the people you love. We take care of the rest.
The people behind the magic
We are Ella and Omar, an Oxford anthropologist and a desert nomad. We fell in love in Morocco, and the rest is history.
We are not an agency flying in from elsewhere. We are opening the door to our home. The families, musicians and artisans who will welcome your guests are our friends and neighbours.
The gallery
An invitation
Some places stay with you forever. Some moments change the way you remember the world.
Let’s create something extraordinary.
The experience
A Sahara wedding is a journey with a beginning, a middle and an ending, and every part of it is yours to shape.
Guests leave the roads behind, by 4x4 and by camel, and arrive somewhere that feels like the edge of the map. The arrival is part of the celebration.
Vows beneath draped linen, with the dunes turning gold behind you. The ceremony itself is entirely yours to shape: its words, its rituals, its mood.
A private camp on the edge of the rolling dunes: woven rugs, lanterns, long tables and a feast prepared for you.
Local musicians, a desert blues band or your own playlist set the pace until the dancing begins. Later, the fire burns low, and the sky takes over.
What’s included
From the minute your guests touch down in Morocco to the minute they leave, we handle everything. Here is what that means.
Your guests are met at Marrakech, Casablanca or any other airport in Morocco, and their journey to the Sahara is coordinated for them.
A pre-wedding dinner to gather everyone before the day.
A place for your guests to stay throughout the wedding.
A private camp on the edge of the rolling dunes.
Every part of your ceremony arranged and looked after on the day.
Venue decor and flowers, designed for the desert.
Food and drink for your wedding celebration.
Local Saharan musicians and drummers, a desert blues band, or your own playlist.
A henna night for the bride and her guests.
A photographer for the wedding, and a dunes photoshoot for the two of you.
Time in the dunes for your guests, before or after the wedding.
Our team is with you from the moment your guests arrive to the moment they leave.
Our story
We are Ella and Omar, an Oxford anthropologist and a desert nomad. We fell in love in Morocco, and the rest is history.
One of us is an Oxford anthropologist who came to know Morocco through its people. The other is a desert nomad, at home in the Sahara. We fell in love in Morocco, and the rest is history.
We are not an agency flying in from elsewhere. This is our home, and we are opening the door. The families, musicians and artisans who will welcome your guests are our friends and neighbours.
Ella and Omar
The journal
Real weddings, behind the scenes, and thoughts on marrying in Morocco. Sample entries below to be replaced.
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