Morocco’s Wedding Season Returns, But Costs Soar Amid Post-Pandemic Demand

Everyone knows it. In Morocco, the wedding season is summer. It generally starts in the month of June and continues until September. Magical, traditional and colorful (and with rhythmic vibrations!), the Moroccan wedding is unlike any other. The young engaged couples are united during a special ceremony organized by a set of professionals specialized in events.

After months of crisis, wedding celebrations are allowed again, reports La Vie éco which adds that it is also an entire sector of the economy that is restarting. Musicians, photographers, pastry chefs, or even caterers who have been out of work for a long time, would now be overwhelmed, and this, until the month of December.

However, specifies the weekly, the resumption of the sector is not without constraints: tight schedule, lack of human resources and increase in food prices. These are all factors that explain an observed increase in their rates.

Some wedding organizers, or "wedding planners" for the trendiest, claim that their order book is full. And these are also families who have booked several months in advance, before the easing of health restrictions, notes the media, citing a wedding organizer.

Whether they are caterers, neggafates, seamstresses, hairstylists, or owners of party halls, these professionals have revised the cost of their service upwards. Now they have to face a double budgetary constraint.

As organizers demand additional financial effort, their clients, also just out of the crisis, have tighter and tighter budgets. Fortunately, the two parties find common ground, to the delight of the engaged couples.