Glazed zellige flies in and sets itself in colour around your photo in a carved horseshoe arch, then your names appear on a plaster plaque in Arabic and Latin. A North African invitation for Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian and Andalusian couples, in French, Arabic and three more languages.
Riad Zellige opens on your photo, set in a horseshoe arch of hand-carved white plaster. The arch starts bare; glazed zellige pieces in emerald, cobalt, saffron and terracotta fly in, and from the keystone down the mosaic sets itself in colour around you. Then your names appear on a carved plaster plaque, in Arabic and Latin if you add your Arabic names, with your date and town beneath. It is the North African and Andalusian romance of Marrakech, Fes, Tunis and Seville, made into a wedding invitation.
Below the arch, every detail belongs to the house. The formal invitation sits on a white tadelakt panel, the countdown turns on glazed zellige pieces, your photos hang in the same carved arches, and the invitation closes under the arch again. A henna night, the wedding and the brunch the day after each get a small painted still life in the programme (a henna bowl, the negafa's amaria chair, tagine and mint tea, msemen), with RSVP, calendar and directions on the same link.
Maghrebi families often read French and Arabic in the same breath, so Riad Zellige was drawn for both. Couple names are set in Aref Ruqaa and headings in Reem Kufi when the invitation is in Arabic, flowing right-to-left without breaking the letter joins, while French, Spanish, English and Swedish use Marcellus and Lora. Family in Casablanca and friends in Paris or Madrid each read it in their own language.
Yes. It is built around the Moroccan riad, with hand-cut zellige, a carved plaster horseshoe arch, orange blossom and tadelakt walls, and it suits Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian couples as well as Andalusian and destination weddings in Marrakech or Seville.
Yes. Add a henna night, a Katb al-Kitab or any other gathering to your programme and it appears in one timeline with its own date, time and map link.
Yes. Guests switch between French, Arabic, Spanish, English and Swedish on the same link, and Arabic is set right-to-left with Arabic display typefaces.