PorTerrasDafrica: Moroccan Wedding

As in other Muslim countries, a traditional Moroccan wedding ceremony lasts from four to seven days, at least in the hold times. Now a days will be only one day for the fest, but two or three days before specially the bride, starts preparing herself with baths “milk bath”, and suppose to be for purification. Day before the bride is covers her hands and feet with “henna” traditional tattooing.

All this previous preparation is called called “furnishing party”, which is organized and participated by bride’s girlfriends and female family. It includes delivery and decoration of the bride's future home. Different household objects are delivered – handmade blankets, mattress, bedding, carpets and Moroccan bed. If the groom's family is wealthy enough they are paying for all the objects.

As wedding dress women in Morocco also wear a takchita (takshita, tackshita). It has two parts – a dress as a first layer and the second layer or over-dress that often buttons up the front using the traditional sfifa and akaad closures.

Bride also wears lot of jewellery. Her eyes are decorated with kohl. Kohl (from kuhl in Arabic) is a mixture of soot and other substances. It used by women of the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. Men sometimes use kohl too. Kohl is used to darken the eyelids and as mascara for the eyelashes.

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