Alamsa looks stunning in her Indian wedding gown and with mehndi - henna designs - on her hands.
Scores of henna artists are hired to make sure that nobody waits too long to get their artwork done.
Around noon, henna artists find a moment of calm to plonk down stools and draw intricate temporary tattoos freehand.
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But the piecemeal efforts to revive ancient trades in frankincense, henna and hides do not begin to make up for livestock.
"For my work, I use henna and spices - they have a long history here, but offer fresh possibilities in painting, " she says.
By midnight, some of the stalls have gone and many of the performers, the henna tattooists, the diviners and herbalists have packed up.
There were piles of schoolbooks for marking, socks hanging on the radiators to dry, in the bathroom henna hair dye and a stained towel.
Mohammed, whose long beard appeared to be dyed red by henna, was much thinner than the last time he was seen publicly in a courtroom.
Material mom Madonna has taken to decorating herself with mehndi, the intricate henna-painting that women use to adorn their hands and feet on special occasions.
Cleopatra reportedly used to add a reddish lustre to her hair with henna, helping along the redheads' reputation for being passionate, to say nothing of being vampish.
There have been the usual comments about owners not showing enough support and patience with managers they hire and how managers have become as permanent as henna tattoos.
Some within the Salafist camp take things an extra step and dye their beards with henna , producing a range of colours from maroon to bright pumpkin orange.
The list of people to be hired might include DJs, special performers, bartenders, henna artists, choreographers, caterers, elephant handlers, decorators, set designers, hair stylists, and beauticians, to name just a few.
"I was given six months of food and now that is finished, so now we don't know what to do, " said Sadar Jan, an elderly Pakistani with a scruffy beard dyed with orange henna.
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The evening before, during the Mehndi party in which the bride and members of her party are adorned with henna designs (an impermanent skin ink) on their hands and feet, David wore a traditional Indian suit.
Business might be slow, but along with the fortune-tellers and healers, the henna tattooists, acrobats and gnaoua, the spiritual musicians, they know the importance of claiming your space before the sun goes down and the big breaks come.
Inside, guests were shuttled through various stations, treated to platters of dates, tiny cups of strong coffee, henna tattoos, dabs of essential oils like frankincense and sandalwood, and photos of themselves (to be posted online) posing in traditional Arabic garb along with a rather timid-looking falcon.
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