
Chair sash or chair cover: what to buy for an Algerian bride's seat
The hall may already have the covers. The sash, the backdrop and the light are yours to buy — and the sash is the one piece of fabric whose tone you choose.
The siniya, the toz3iyat and the qa3da: which station carries which tray, how many pouches per guest, and what is set up the night before rather than on the day.

The hall may already have the covers. The sash, the backdrop and the light are yours to buy — and the sash is the one piece of fabric whose tone you choose.

Favours go round during the tasdira, hand to hand or from a siniya. Bags come by the hundred and boxes by ten — how to turn a guest count into an order that fits.

Four words for what looks like one object, five stations across one night, and the cloth that goes down before the tray. Which goes where, and when.