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Marriage is a beautiful thing but planning for it in the Arab world can create your best and worst memories. I’ve been there, done that. Had to look for everything in the most inconvenient ways: Driving around the city with my fiancé looking for a suitable wedding venue, driving more to find a florist, asking friends for advice on the best makeup artists in town, best wedding dresses shops, visiting exhibitions, comparing prices, opening one hundred websites on my laptop looking here and there. It was exhausting to say the least, not to mention time consuming.

Mohammed Abdulqader who is a senior developer and the co-founder of 7lfa.com has been through this with his fiancé too, which inspired him to create 7fla.com, an online platform for everything related to weddings in the Arab world. 7fla.com started out in October 2012 as a basic directory of wedding vendors in Jordan covering wedding venues including halls, restaurants and hotels, florists, hairdressers, bands, wedding clothes shops for men and women, appliances, wedding invitations, photography, car rental services and accessories shops among other categories. “When we review every wedding vendor in town, they will become competitive and start providing high quality services for a better price,” says Abdulqader who assures me that 7fla.com was created to remove suffering from wedding planning for engaged couples in the Arab world.

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For every wedding vendor you find on 7fla.com you will be able to view related images, contact details, Google map and a description of services. Any vendor who would like to have his/her shop listed too can simply register.

Now, 7fla.com has a comprehensive list of wedding vendors in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Palestine and Jordan. You can also read in a variety of important (as well as light hearted) subjects related to weddings and marriage such as relationships, honeymoon, marriage advice, beauty tips, wedding party inspirations and others.

Abdulqader says 7fla.com will expand to cover the rest of Arab countries and more topics of interest to newlyweds: Cooking 101 for 1st year of marriage and online tools for wedding planning and organization similar to those you can see at theknot.com. It would be great to have an online wedding budgeter in Arabic for example, and a wedding checklist tool.

Most of Arabic websites translate content from English, but 7fla.com take into consideration the uniqueness of our Arabic culture and provide an all-Arabic platform for engaged Arabs everywhere.

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