Rachel & Julian's Wedding in Morocco - The night before

When Rachel and Julian asked if we would consider shooting their wedding in Morocco we didn’t think twice about it. For a start, we have always wanted to do a destination wedding. Plus I have always wanted to visit Marrakech. Also we had already met Rachel’s side of the family at her sisters wedding last year and knew that everybody would be lovely We decided to make a holiday of it and stay for a week (under the pretence that we would be getting acclimatised to the hot weather!), and had been looking forward to it for months. Normally when you think about how awesome something is going to be, it never quite lives up to the expectation; but this wedding was everything we hoped it would be and a lot more!

Aside from the beautiful venue, the exciting details, the fabulous weather etc. we were blown away with how welcoming Rachel and Julian were to us, we really felt like part of the wedding. The event organisers, Rosena and Fred of Boutique Souk, were also incredible…anyone thinking of getting married in Marrakech should get them on board!

The evening before the wedding there was lots planned for all the guests, so we met them over at their villa and followed them like paparazzi for a few hours! Here’s the lovely and exceptionally smiley Rachel…

You may recognise Erica and Martin from our website (we photographed their gorgeous wedding last October!)

We headed to the night market in Marrakech where there was lots of mingling and a guide who led us to the awesome mint tea!

Here’s Julian. Believe it or not he is JUST as smiley as his bride!

After the tour we jumped on ‘Caleches’ (horse drawn carriages) which took us back to the villa. Despite being a total wuss to start with (we were sitting up with the drivers), I absolutely loved it! Plus they don’t go very fast so we were snapping away trying to get cool street scene shots!