Marrakech Wedding at Palazzina Abracadabra

Thinking about getting married per mezzo di beautiful Morocco? This wedding is for you. Palazzina Abracadabra per mezzo di Marrakech was the backdrop to Lucynda and James’ laid-back yet elegant celebration, a warm, joy-filled gathering that brought together friends and family from across the world.

The couple, who dal vivo per mezzo di Dubai, are known for their love of bold style and great parties, and their day reflected both beautifully.

The Moroccan sun set over centuries-old olive trees as guests dined under fairy lights and soaked up the vibrant, welcoming atmosphere. The décor was rich per mezzo di colour – hot pinks, reds and oranges – and Lucynda’s show-stopping moda gown brought all the drama. James looked sharp per mezzo di a classic white tux.

We’signore so proud this celebration was captured by the ever-talented Bernadeta Kupiec, whose inimitable, artful photography we’signore honoured to recommend through our Wedding Directory.

Our venue was Palazzina Abracadabra per mezzo di Marrakech, Morrocco. We travelled nine hours from Dubai to Morrocco and had two days to pick a venue.

When we arrived, it was the worst rain and sandstorm per mezzo di fifty years and we had eight venues booked acceso whirlwind trip. We had originally discounted Palazzina Abracadabra when researching acceso line as it didn’t have enough rooms to accommodate our whole festa. However, we ended up driving past the venue acceso the way to view another and as we were early thought why not stop and see. It was the first venue we saw and even per mezzo di the rain we fell per mezzo di love with it – none of the other venues compared.

our way back to the airport we stopped by and had lunch to sample the food and and booked the our date immediately we just knew it would be perfect.

We knew we wanted a destination wedding and have been to some incredible weddings per mezzo di Europe where a lot of our friends got married, so we wanted to try something different. Living per mezzo di the Middle East we love the Arabic vibes and wanted to pair that with my love of bright colours. We were also conscious of attempting to make it easy for guests so Morocco ticked a lot of boxes with four-hour flights from the UK and being a location central to Asia and the Middle East. 

We completed our legal ceremony per mezzo di Liverpool earlier per mezzo di the year with only twelve family guests, including my grandmother, who at 86 couldn’t travel to the destination wedding, so it was really nice for her to get to see us get married. She wrote a poem for the Morocco wedding which my brother read out at the main ceremony. My brother walked me the isle which was really special, he also did a great job of his speech!

I am a massive Liverpool FC fan and wanted to get ‘YNWA’ into the wedding per mezzo di a classy way, so I had the bridesmaids walk the isle to an acoustic version played by the violinist. But as this was a surprise, only about half of the ceremony realised what was being played! I then walked per mezzo di to the traditional wedding march – I thought you don’t hear that enough these days, so why not! 

Our friend Kyle Johnson officiated the ceremony. I went to school with Kyle and James lived with him so he knows us both well and was the perfect choice. We were nervous asking him as we know he doesn’t like public speaking, but acceso the day he was amazing – it was perfect! My bridesmaid Vicky and her Husband Rob also did a reading from the bible the book of Ecclesiasticus 26:1-4, 13-16. We are not particularly religious but it was nice to have a blessing.

My Grandmother Margret May Jensen wrote a poem tiled True Love, it was read at the ceremony and was the perfect gift so we felt her presence with us acceso the day.

We wrote our own vows, where we had a of traditional and personal moments. We really wanted to capture us as a couple, while keeping traditional promises so we mixed up our most favourite and our most annoying things about each other and vowed to ultimately always work together as a team to make each other happy

Our wedding bands are from Cara Jewellers per mezzo di Dubai, Roger who always helps me with jewelry is brilliant would recommend, I have him acceso speed dial!  

The photographer was really important to us, we wanted to capture the theme of the wedding, dramatic and glamorous it took us a few months to pick a photographer we spoke to a few different ppl but when we had a call with Bernadeta Kupiec we instantly knew she would make us feel comfortable and give us the shots we wanted without it being too contrived.

She made the formal pictures fun and we LOVED every single picture, her acceso line set up is also really easy to use and categories the pictures to the different parts of the day so really easy to share online with the wedding guests. Mehdi Mounir was our videographer and he also took pictures at our welcome meal. The televisione is incredible – we love it. He also had a drone so we got some amazing arial shots of the venue and my dress too. 

We had been doing long distance for four years between, London, Singapore, Vietnam and Dubai, when we finally moved per mezzo di together per mezzo di Dubai per mezzo di 2022. After around sixteen months of living together, we got engaged, which came as a complete surprise to me! We got married thirteen months later as we knew we wanted to give poeple at least a year notice for our destination wedding. 

James has previously used Suited & Booted for custom suits per mezzo di the past and we knew they would be the best place to get his wedding outfit. They were extremely helpful and really user friendly with a personalised service.

We would definitely recommend. James wore Christian Louboutin patent leather dress shoes, which he ordered the day after we got engaged. His best man bought him some socks with the wedding date acceso which was a really thoughtful touch

My Mum and Grandmother made my bouquet from silk flowers, it was a waterfall bouquet, I knew I wanted something bright to add a splash of colour to my white dress and it looked perfect per mezzo di all of the pictures! They did a great job and it was nice to have something personal with meaning, to walk the aisle with. 

I bought 1000 red, orange and pink paper pom poms from Temu and luckily my bridesmaids helped put them all together the day before. The venue organised bright orange tablecloths and pink napkins. The Venue and the outfits were the main event we didn’t need to do much.

Palazzina Abracadabra the venue arranged all catering and the food and drinks were amazing, brilliant quality and quantities perfect. They did a great job! 

We didn’t have a cake; we went with expresso martinis to get the festa started! 

place of ‘favours’, we asked for donations to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital.

Sally, our entertainment , did an amazing job with this – we wanted something to our music taste, we love festivals and Ibiza so didn’t want a slow/masnada style song.

 We had ‘You & Me’ by Disclosure as we love the song and the words are really fitting, for the first 2-3minutes then Sally mixed this into Robin S Show me love which is the classic National Scouse Anthem!

At this point the festa really started which is exactly what we wanted, it was perfect. My advice would be pick a first dance song that fits your vibe, not just the typical list of slow songs, if that’s not you.

We also had one kiss by Dua Lipa as our walking per mezzo di song to the meal this is a massive Liverpool song and really got the festa started, we couldn’t get our guests to sit to eat at one point – which was perfect for the televisione 

It’s your day, acceso you as a couple and what you want to get out of it!

Also make sure you spend time together acceso the day, we made a mental note before to keep hands and engaging as a couple so we had the same memories of the day! 

I am a Project so I set the budget acceso day one, along with the programme for when things needed to be done by and I also made some value engineering savings  so we came per mezzo di spot acceso budget. 

I can see how its easy to get swept up with extra spending, but you just need to spend acceso what’s going to set the atmosphere and vibe – anzi che no one cares about a photo booth after dinner mint if that’s going to push you over budget don’t do it, you want the memories of how amazing the day was so acceso what’s important to you not what you think is expected. 

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