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Wedding Venue in Marrakech · Route de l'Ourika, Marrakech
paymentsPrice / Night
groupGuest Capacity
Up to 300
hotelSleep Capacity
85 rooms
eventMin. Stay
2 nights
our editorial assessment
If you want an olive-grove wedding with real capacity, just ten minutes from the city, La Maison des Oliviers is a strong and practical choice. It is a three-hectare estate on the Ourika road at Tassoultante, with beautifully kept gardens, olive trees, a large pool and its own reception hall. It has forty rooms and suites sleeping up to eighty-five guests, and it hosts weddings for as many as 300 poolside or 160 in the hall. You can exchange vows under the olive trees by the fountain, take cocktails on the terraces and celebrate into the evening by the pool. What defines a Maison des Oliviers wedding is that mix of olive-grove romance, real capacity and closeness to town. Let me walk you through it honestly.
La Maison des Oliviers is a garden estate set up for events as much as for staying, which is exactly what you want in a wedding venue. The three hectares of gardens, the olive trees, the fountain, the pool and the reception hall are all geared toward hosting a celebration, and there are two restaurants and a spa with a hammam on site. It is comfortable and welcoming rather than ultra-luxury or cutting-edge in design, a warm garden setting close to the city. Being just ten minutes out, it gives you a genuine countryside-estate feel without the long drive of the mountains or the desert. For couples who want olive-grove atmosphere, capacity and convenience together, it strikes a very useful balance.
Here is what your photos will look like. Three hectares of well-kept gardens, olive trees, a fountain and a large pool, with terraces for cocktails and the Atlas foothills not far off. The olive-tree ceremony spot by the fountain and the poolside evening setup are the signatures, and they photograph as warm, natural and romantic rather than grand or ornate. The greenery and water give you soft, pretty backdrops throughout. It is a garden-estate look, lush and welcoming, close to the city yet feeling like the countryside. If your vision is an olive-and-garden wedding with room to breathe and natural, romantic images, this suits it beautifully. If you wanted stark drama or palace grandeur, this is a gentler, greener kind of setting.
The estate is built to host, and it scales well. Ceremonies happen under the olive trees by the fountain or poolside, cocktails move to the terraces, and the celebration runs by the pool in the evening or in the reception hall. The hall seats up to 160, and the poolside and gardens can host as many as 300, so it genuinely handles mid-size to large weddings. The in-house team and two restaurants cater the day. As a grounded estimate this suits everything from a comfortable mid-size wedding to a large celebration, with the flexibility of both indoor and outdoor spaces for a weather plan B. For an olive-grove wedding that also needs real capacity, this is well set up.
Here is the honest fit. La Maison des Oliviers is right for couples who want an olive-grove and garden wedding with real capacity, up to 300 poolside, and the convenience of being ten minutes from the city with some rooms on site. It suits mid-size to large celebrations and couples who value greenery, capacity and closeness to town over ultra-luxury polish or a unique design statement. It is right if olive-tree romance with room to grow appeals. It is wrong if you want a five-star boutique or design-led aesthetic, and wrong if you need to sleep your whole large guest list on site, since it houses around eighty-five. It is a comfortable, capable garden estate, and for the right couple it hits a lovely practical sweet spot.
La Maison des Oliviers has forty rooms and suites, ten standard, ten deluxe, seventeen senior suites and three ambassador suites, sleeping up to around eighty-five guests on site. That is a useful number, enough to house your close family and a good part of the wedding party where the celebration is, while a larger guest list up to the 300 the pool can hold stays in the city, ten minutes away, and comes for the day. The range of room types suits families and couples alike. Because you are so close to town, the mix of on-site and nearby accommodation is easy to manage. For a mid-size to large wedding, having real beds on the estate plus the city on the doorstep is a genuinely practical combination.
Now the logistics, and here convenience is the headline. La Maison des Oliviers sits at kilometre 6 on the Ourika road, roughly ten minutes from the centre of Marrakech and a short drive from Menara airport, so it feels like a countryside estate while being remarkably close. That makes transport for day guests easy and airport transfers quick, which is a real advantage over the mountain and desert venues. Being an event-focused estate, the team handles logistics and catering across the day. Spring and autumn are ideal for the gardens and poolside, and summer is comfortable with the pool and shade. Confirm the hall and poolside capacities and the exclusive-use terms for your date in writing.
Honest numbers, as grounded estimates to confirm for your dates, and this is good value for the capacity. As a garden estate priced around exclusive use plus per-head catering, La Maison des Oliviers offers a lot of wedding for the money. As a grounded estimate, the venue and exclusive use land somewhere around 4,000 to 10,000 euros a night depending on season and scale, with catering per head added on top. A grounded total for a mid-size wedding here realistically starts around 25k to 45k all in, climbing for a larger 250 to 300 guest celebration. Because it hosts big numbers close to the city with rooms on site, the value is strong. Get the per-head and exclusive-use figures in writing, since guest count drives the total.
Would I send a couple here? Yes, and for a practical reason. If you want an olive-grove and garden wedding with room for a big guest list, some beds on site and the huge convenience of being ten minutes from the city, La Maison des Oliviers is a genuinely sensible and lovely choice. Send me the couple who wants natural, olive-tree romance and real capacity without the long drive to the mountains, who has a mid-size to large guest list, and who values greenery and convenience over ultra-luxury polish. It is not for the boutique-design or tiny-intimate crowd. But for a warm, roomy, well-located garden wedding, it does a great deal right, and I would send them happily.