Introducing Charlotte our Greek bride who will be blogging her planning diary with us!
Charlotte's First Diary Entry
Hello! I am thrilled to be sharing the details of my wedding in Greece with you and I hope I can offer some insight into planning a wedding abroad for brides who dream of sunshine and sand for their wedding day!
Following the excitement of our engagement we knew we had to get down to business and start planning the wheres and whens of our nuptials for 2 reasons:
1. I am English, my finance is Australian and we live in London. So some fancy logistical footwork was needed in order to have the wedding we want and to keep both families happy on both sides of the globe.
2. We both agreed we wanted to be married within a year of being engaged after hearing one too many tales of 3 year long engagements and constant stress leading up to it.
So for us, we needed to get a move on.
We knew immediately that we wanted to get married in the sunshine so that pretty much ruled out a wedding in the UK! My husband-to-be is from Perth, Australia and we felt it was too far for all our family and friends to fly out there from the UK, not to mention expensive, so by choosing the Greek Islands everyone’s a winner - we get our sun kissed wedding as well as a week-long party with 60 of our closest friends and family! We just needed to decide on a destination...
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We had both been to quite a few of the Greek islands so wanted to choose an island that was new to us and also off the tourist trail. We hadn’t even heard of Antiparos until a colleague of mine who’d been going for 20 years mentioned it and it sounded exactly what we were looking for – relaxed, pretty and with plenty of beautiful beaches.
So we boarded our EasyJet flight to Athens in the height of summer, me with a stinking cold and 2 hours later than scheduled (has anyone ever boarded an EasyJet flight on time?) and with 9 hours to kill in Athens before we boarded the over-night ferry to Paros (not through choice, we missed our ferry due to being delayed and this was the next available ferry - not advised!).We awoke to a stunning sunrise in Paros and from here it was a short boat ride over to Antiparos, a mere 28 hours after leaving London!!!
Now while I’ll be the first to champion any couple’s decision to tie the knot abroad, there are pros and cons to this which we have been finding out! It’s hard enough making a decision about the destination, let alone trying to make your mind up about caterers, flowers and all other finer details that are essential for making your big day perfect. But once we arrived on Antiparos we knew we had made the right choice. It was picture postcard perfect. Our minds were made up! However, you have to prepare yourselves for the fact that some of your guests may not be able to be there to share your special day for various reasons, be it financial reasons or maybe Greece just isn’t their cup of tea. Either way, whoever you invite should feel honoured to be part of your day and in return you should feel honoured when your guests RSVP back and say “Hell yeah, crack open the ouzo, we’re in!”
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Now while I’ll be the first to champion any couple’s decision to tie the knot abroad, there are pros and cons to this which we have been finding out! It’s hard enough making a decision about the destination, let alone trying to make your mind up about caterers, flowers and all other finer details that are essential for making your big day perfect. But once we arrived on Antiparos we knew we had made the right choice. It was picture postcard perfect. Our minds were made up! However, you have to prepare yourselves for the fact that some of your guests may not be able to be there to share your special day for various reasons, be it financial reasons or maybe Greece just isn’t their cup of tea. Either way, whoever you invite should feel honoured to be part of your day and in return you should feel honoured when your guests RSVP back and say “Hell yeah, crack open the ouzo, we’re in!”
CC
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