Little Details Make the Day

Photos by friends and care of Artedona.com

I am all about the little things! I love the details, it is what interests me the most in planning parties. For the wedding we came across so many quandaries in this area and also had moments of clarity! It was quite hard trying to incorporate Greek tradition with English and to include bits of South Africa into it as well. At one point I was looking to find some Zulu dancers and even went to the extreme of trying to coax some of Jubb's friends into doing it themselves. They chose to decline! The one great thing about the Saffas is; if you put them in an area with all their mates, hand them a beer, add a little sun and have something cooking over a fire then they are set! So only to merge the other too nationalities. In our family it is traditional for my father and brother to carve the lamb at Easter. I wanted to have them do this at the wedding, obviously not all the lambs but the first. I refer to my Father as Big George, so I ordered two aprons for them (no man looks good in a DJ covered in Lamb jus). One with BIG GEORGE F.O.B and the other for my Brother with BIG GEORGE JNR KOMBARO. To say I was amusing myself is an understatement. For their thank you presents (my brother was also my Kombaro) I order two Laguile carving sets with Olive Wood handles www.artedona.com which were beautiful and appropriate! Bless them they looked so sweet standing in front of everyone carving and what was great was everyone went up and got involved!

Photos by Annie Angelopoulou and other friends

My page boy who was only two and a half at the time was a little too young for a full DJ outfit.  So I bought him the DJ suit but coupled it with a really cute rolling stones t shirt and a pair of converse!!!  It was this that lead me to put the idea to Jubbs that all the grooms party may like to join in on the foot wear idea!  Jubbs is not a naturally formal person and as half his party were Saffas I thought they may enjoy wearing a pair of cons rather than formal dress shoes!  I was right!  So instead of buying them a thank you present that would sit on a shelf and never get used we bought them all a pair of black converse boots and then bought the entire wedding party, girls and all a classic Greece Lightning T-Shirt we found on http://www.snorgtees.com. Priceless!

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