Women 's Wedding

Magda Ait Lektaoui - Rabat

As the women's delegations begin to flock one after the other, young women from the tables, chairs and the last touches on the platform await the presence of the women's ensemble, which will celebrate the women's concert known as the Alcalá.

"For the Need" and her team has long been involved in organizing this kind of party, telling Al Jazeera Net about its beginnings before referring to the waitresses to put traditional Moroccan desserts like "baklava" and "heel of gazelle" on a long table.

Because the "night wedding is a public event," according to the Moroccan popular proverb, that the wedding needs a year of preparation. The preparation of this women's concert required nearly two months of preparations, starting with setting the date of the revival of the concert, which is not arbitrary. The revival of two concerts on the same day and to ensure the sale of sufficient number of invitation cards.

The organization's team is keen to include details on these cards, including the date and place of the women's ceremony, the food presented in it, and the name of the band that will celebrate the concert, the latter is an important attraction for the acquisition of cards and the confirmation of the confirmation, the more popular and technically superior.

Moments of joy
The guests of "Al Hidaa Fatiha" have started to enroll in their full length and elegance. Usually a group of friends or family members agree to spend the evening together. They all sit on one table waiting for tea glasses and desserts, while the necks are always crouching towards the podium to explore the arrival of the band.

Sumaya, an employee and the mother of two children, is keen to attend this type of party whenever she has the opportunity, stressing that it remains an outlet for women to ease the pressures of work and a good opportunity to wear the most beautiful traditional Moroccan fashion.

Soukiyeh, who wears the headscarf, is not always able to put the decorations in full freedom because most Moroccan weddings are mixed, but the idea of ​​women's parties only enabled her to finally, in addition to the possibility of dancing and singing with girlfriends with all the comfort.

The best interest of Moroccan young women to Al-Kala women is respect for Moroccan privacy and customs and religious beliefs. Photography is strictly forbidden, and anyone who dares to do so will recover her money and leave the room immediately.

Strict conditions
The posters are distributed on all tables surrounded by women of different ages and from the various neighborhoods of Salé (near Rabat). However, the workers involved are the desire to create moments of pleasure and joy, and then the elegant clothes they wear.

Moroccan traditional dress "Caftan" is one of the most important conditions of the presence of "Alcala", dance and fun do not like the music of the Moroccan folk music, provided by a women's group, only this outfit.

The attendees are keen to be elegant and decorate, taking advantage of an opportunity that is not available in the midst of pressures of work and home, and away from children as well as they are not required to bring them to the ceremony.

"We need public places where we can enjoy our time without reservations and preserve our privacy," says Maryam, a lecturer at Mohammed V University. "It is a compensation for women's sessions that were automatically organized between neighbors and family women, Big ".

Maryam admits that she is often involved in Alkala concerts and does not think twice about paying the money needed to buy the invitation card to break the routine and pump up the happiness to bring positive energy that lasts for a week or more.