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Wedding Venue in Marrakech · Mouassine, Marrakech Medina
paymentsPrice / Night
groupGuest Capacity
Up to 100
hotelSleep Capacity
14 rooms
eventMin. Stay
1 night
our editorial assessment
If you want an atmospheric medina wedding with real event capacity, candlelit patios and rooftop views, Palais Lamrani is a proper choice. It is a large palace-riad on Rue Sidi el Yamani in the Mouassine quarter, near Jemaa el-Fna, set up as an event venue: 1,100 square metres of space, a patio of over 400 square metres, a pool, and terraces with views of the Koutoubia, the medina rooftops and the High Atlas. It hosts receptions of ten to a hundred guests for weddings, dinners and cocktails. Bigger than a typical small riad, it can genuinely take a reception. What defines a Palais Lamrani wedding is that atmospheric medina setting with real capacity and views. Let me walk you through it honestly.
Palais Lamrani is a large palace-riad run as an event venue rather than a boutique hotel, which is what lets it host a real medina reception. Behind its door you find over 1,100 square metres of space: a huge 400 square metre patio, a pool, and two upper terraces each with sound systems and lounge seating, looking out over the Koutoubia, the rooftops and the Atlas. In the evening the patio becomes magical, with variable coloured lighting and thousands of candles. The professional kitchen can cater on site or work with your own caterer for larger events. It also has a handful of suites and rooms. For couples who want a genuine medina wedding venue that can actually take a hundred guests, this is a rare and atmospheric option.
Here is what your photos will look like. A grand medina palace-riad: a vast candlelit patio, carved detail, lantern and coloured light, a pool, and rooftop terraces with the Koutoubia minaret, the medina rooftops and the distant Atlas as your backdrop. The evening ambiance, with thousands of candles and coloured lighting across the patio, is genuinely magical and unlike a daytime garden venue. The terraces at golden hour, with the Koutoubia and the mountains, are the signature. It is atmospheric, ornate and richly Moroccan, both intimate up close and expansive from the roof. If your vision is a candlelit medina wedding with real character and rooftop views, this delivers it beautifully. If you wanted gardens or open landscape, this is an interior, evening-led medina setting.
The celebration uses the huge patio, the pool and the rooftop terraces, and the scale is what sets it apart from smaller riads. The 400 square metre patio hosts the reception, dinners and dancing, the terraces take cocktails of around thirty with the Koutoubia and Atlas views, and the whole space transforms with candles and lighting at night. As a grounded estimate it comfortably hosts weddings and receptions from ten up to about a hundred guests, which very few medina riads can. The professional kitchen caters in house, or you can bring your own caterer for a larger reception. For an atmospheric medina wedding that needs real reception capacity and rooftop drama, Palais Lamrani is genuinely well set up.
Here is the honest fit. Palais Lamrani is right for couples who want an atmospheric, candlelit medina wedding with real reception capacity, up to about a hundred guests, and rooftop views of the Koutoubia and the Atlas. It suits mid-size medina celebrations and couples who value character, atmosphere and location, with the flexibility of in-house or external catering. It is right if a grand candlelit patio and terraces appeal. It is wrong if you want a garden, a landscape or everyone sleeping on site, since it has only a few rooms, and wrong if anyone struggles with the medina approach on foot. It is a large medina event-riad, and for an atmospheric reception up to a hundred, it is one of the more capable options in the old city.
Palais Lamrani has a handful of suites and rooms, three suites and three double luxury rooms, sleeping roughly fourteen of your closest people. So while it can host a reception of up to a hundred, on-site accommodation is for the couple and closest family only, with your wider guest list staying in nearby medina riads and hotels, of which there are many within a short walk. That is completely normal for a medina event-riad: you host the celebration here and house guests across the old city. The rooms are comfortable and characterful. For a wedding where the venue is about the reception and the atmosphere rather than housing everyone, Palais Lamrani works exactly as an event-riad should.
Now the medina logistics. Palais Lamrani sits on Rue Sidi el Yamani in the Mouassine quarter, near Jemaa el-Fna, so you and your guests reach it on foot through the medina for the last stretch, which is atmospheric and a genuine consideration for less-mobile guests, so plan it honestly. The upside is being in the heart of the old city, minutes from the square and the souks. Being an indoor-and-rooftop palace, it is comfortable in any season and especially magical in the evening. The professional kitchen and event setup mean logistics, sound and lighting are handled. The main things to organise are guest transport to the medina edge and the evening timing. Confirm the reception capacity, catering options and terrace access in writing.
Honest numbers, as grounded estimates to confirm for your dates. As a medina event-riad, Palais Lamrani is priced around exclusive use of the palace plus catering for your reception, with the flexibility of in-house or your own caterer. As a grounded estimate, privatising the venue lands somewhere around 2,000 to 5,500 euros depending on the date and scale, before catering. Add catering per head, production, flowers and any lighting, and a grounded total for an atmospheric medina reception of up to a hundred here realistically starts around 15k to 30k all in, depending on numbers and how elaborate the evening is. Because you can bring your own caterer, you have some control over the total. Confirm the privatisation and catering terms in writing.
Would I send a couple here? Yes, and warmly, for the right celebration. If you want an atmospheric, candlelit medina wedding with real reception capacity up to a hundred, a huge patio and rooftop views of the Koutoubia and the Atlas, Palais Lamrani is one of the more capable and dramatic event-riads in the old city. Send me the couple who wants character, candlelight and a genuine medina reception rather than a garden or a hotel ballroom, who has a guest list up to about a hundred, and who is charmed by the old-city setting. It is not for those wanting everyone housed on site, a garden, or a very large party. But for an atmospheric, mid-size medina wedding, it is a genuinely special choice, and I would send the right couple gladly.