John and I met the day my
granddaughter was born June 10, 1989. Since we are "mature" folks and didn't
have forever for an engagement, our first wedding took place on October 7, 1989 in Christ
Episcopal Church in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey. The church was a small exquisite sandstone
church built as a chapel for Cecil B. de Mille when he lived here many years ago. Who
would have believed I would fall in love and marry my soul mate the year I became a
grandmother!
After we were married for 5
years, my daughter told me about a couple who had been married 33 years and had been
married 33 times in a different state each time. When I got off the phone and told
John about it he suddenly knelt before me and said " Would you marry me
again, this time in Greece?" Most of John's family still lives in Greece and
had not attended the first wedding. Our honeymoon had been to Greece so I met his
family but both of us love a celebration and a party. My sister-in-law Zoe arranged
many of the details on the Greek side.
We were married again in the
tiny church of St. Profitylias AGIOS PRPROFITYLIAS high on a hill
overlooking Athens in view of the Acropolis. We had a lovely reception with his
friends and family in a beautiful restaurant with Greek dancing and breaking of dishes.
