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NIccI AND AMy
engagement ring and asked me to marry her. I was blown away
and happily accepted!
We began planning our Greek wedding immediately and
we set our date for Tuesday 11 June 2013. The 11th has been,
and always will be, significant as it’s the date we met, and it
would also be six years and six months exactly that we had
been together. We had previously talked about having our
wedding overseas, but locations seemed to be really
restrictive. We had presumed we wouldn’t be able to have our
ceremony in Greece – we were very wrong and our dreams
were soon going to come true.
We wanted our special day to be very intimate and private
and very ‘us’. We didn’t want anything traditional as we loved
quirky, shabby chic and Greek! When first planning our
wedding and deciding who to invite we knew we wanted it to
be extremely personal – we wanted to share and celebrate our
special day with our nearest and dearest, the people who are a
big part of our lives all of the time.
Our invitations went out to our closest family and friends
who were dotted around the globe – the North East of England,
London, South Africa, Sierra Leone and canada. Although we
really hoped and dreamed that everyone would be able to
make it, we knew that for even our family and friends in the UK
it was a lot to ask of them, cost and time wise.
We expected that we would have around five guests at our
wedding – so we were completely and utterly overwhelmed
with the response to our invitations. Nineteen of our amazing
family and friends were booked up within days.
We knew we wanted a wedding planner – it’s only sensible
if you don’t speak the language! We contacted a few on the
island via email, and by far the warmest, most friendly and
most helpful reception was from Rachael Antonatos of
cephalonia concierge. It felt right, we felt confidence and trust
which is enormously important given the fact you’re putting
the most important day of your lives in someone else’s hands.
‘Despite all life threw
at us... it only made us
stronger. We have an
amazingly strong
relationship and as
long as we have each
other, we have it all.’