This morning had a slow start after the night before’s activities. Once we were up and moving Daphne and I headed out to get our nails done. Only in Greece would we end up at a lady’s house where her and her friend would take FOUR HOURS to give us mani/pedis. Only in Greece would the lady tell me it was too bad I hadn’t waxed my mustache as it was too late now the day before my wedding, only in Greece would this morning end up being so much fun and let me have some along time with Daphne.
We finally made it home and spent another lazy afternoon by the pool. Then it was upstairs to get ready for our rehearsal and dinner. My mom came to help iron Randy’s shirt….I knew Randy was for sure the person for me to marry when he didn’t even get upset (or at least didn’t show it) when my mom accidentally burned his shirt. Luckily it turned out to be a little smudge from the iron that came off but I still remember how amazed I was at how calm Randy was about the whole thing.
We headed off to the Island, where the wedding would take place the next day and rehearsed the ceremony with our friends.
Then we all got into cabs and headed to downtown Athens for our Welcome Dinner. Since almost all of our guests had travelled so far for our wedding, we invited everyone to a dinner the night before.
We had decided to have dinner at Kuzina, a restaurant located right under the Acropolis. When we first started looking for a restaurant to host a dinner the night before, Kuzina was the first place our Greek scout- aka Elianna recommended. I proceeded to cross it off my list because all of our guests wouldn’t fit on the roof for dinner. After looking at 50 more restaurants we came back to Kuzina. It had the best vibe of all the restaurants we had looked at and was on my favourite street in Athens. I’ve always loved sitting outside at a café having a coffee and seeing the Acropolis and the ruins with train tracks running straight through. I also just asked the owner if we could have drinks on the terrace for sunset and then head down for dinner and he said of course 🙂
We stopped and picked up Bart, our amazing wedding photographer, on the way to dinner so the pictures below are all his and are amazing!
Walking to dinner (the balloons were not going to the rehearsal dinner, we just happened to be behind them)
Once we arrived at Kuzina we realized we had forgotten all the presents for our family in the car…so Randy had to run back and pick them up and get all sweaty while Bart took some fun pictures of me.
Megan who made it to Greece with a two year old and a three month old and never stopped smiling the whole weekend!
I forgot until I saw this picture today how enthralled with Hania, our flower girl, John was. It reminds me so much of Adam now who is obsessed with older boys and girls. And they’re holding hands, swoon.
Randy + the boys + Miguel (who now also lives in California with the boys and I guess is officially one of the boys as well)
Miguel giving his wonderful, funny speech
Thanking Elianna for her countless hours of research for a Greek venue, restaurant, hair dresser, makeup artist….etc!
Gabby’s amazing speech! We were so lucky to have two friends who we both love so much that came all the way to Greece and took the time to write such wonderful speeches.
We had family style Greek food and it was delicious. I would go back to this restaurant next time I’m in Athens! After a yummy dinner, a couple speeches and toasts and wine it was sadly time to leave. Our friends moved on to another bar but it was home for the bride and the groom so we could be rested for our big day. Of course by the time we got home, practiced our dance a couple of times and reminisced about the evening it was already 2:30! I said goodnight to my groom and slept with my sister for my last night before our wedding.
Later that evening, somewhere in Athens….
bosas-from-us.com 
Haha I had blocked out the memory of how painful it was to get up that Friday morning. Thank god we went early though since it did in fact take 4 hours for our mani/pedi. And I forgot how hilarious/entertaining those women were.
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