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The Bride Wore Three Designer Dresses For Her Breathtaking Moroccan Wedding

Kristen Nichols Thu, 17 Aug 2023 Who What Wear

Welcome to Who What Wear Weddings, the destination for style-minded weddings. Expect insightful tips straight from the newlyweds, shoppable elements, and plenty of must-save imagery as we share the nuptials of our favorite fashion people getting married. For upcoming features, share your submissions here.

"It was pretty magnetic immediately," recalls Hanane El Moutii as she reflects on the moment when she met her husband Marc Ange at a business meeting in Los Angeles at Chateau Marmont. El Moutii—the founder and CEO of Éclat Public Relations, a firm specializing in PR for design and lifestyle brands—and Ange, a designer and artist at the helm of Studio Ange, both have careers in the luxury design worlds, so it was only a matter of time before work brought them together. But it instantly became clear that their relationship was destined for more than business. "We didn't see each other for about six months after that day. Work brought us together again, and that was it! We never really dated—we fell madly in love and moved in together almost instantly," El Moutii says. They now refer to each other as soulmates.

It was three years later when the couple was traveling that Ange proposed. "We were on a work trip to India—if visiting Aman properties in India can be called work—when Marc Ange surprised me with a detour to the Maldives and proposed on a private island," El Moutii says. "We both cried of joy, jumped into the sea, and spent the day sunbathing while fantasizing about the wedding. The day after saying yes, we were canceling the rest of our trip and running back to the U.S. due to the pandemic. During the months of isolation, we fell even more in love, decided to elope in the Utah desert, and exchanged our vows over fuming sage at the beautiful Amangiri."

After eloping in the canyons of the American Southwest and building their home together with their son, Leone, in Los Angeles, El Moutii and Ange began planning their wedding festivities and landed on a destination weekend in Morocco—a place tied to El Moutii's roots—at a hotel the couple had been visiting for years. "I was born in a small village in Northern Italy, and my roots are in Morocco. I lived my childhood between two worlds, spending the school year in Italy and summer soaking up the Moroccan sun," El Moutii shares.

The magnificent wedding set at the foot of the Atlas Mountains in Marrakech, bringing together the public relations CEO and the designer and artist, was breathtaking. Scroll on to see how the wedding weekend unfolded, including words from the bride on planning a destination wedding, all of the details for her three wedding-day looks, and the moment she wants to relive again.