I had great expectations for the wedding day and I wasn’t let down. The time plan was great, the location couldn’t be better and the guests were prepared to have lots of fun.

We started the day early, walking around in Fira around the St Minas church to scout out the location, stopped buy the Asian Club to have lunch at the (unexpectedly good) Chinese take away fast food as I am a huge Chinese food fan and then we headed to the Panorama hotel to meet the bride and groom.

The bride had already started doing her hair while the groom was still at the swimming pool with his friends.

You could feel it in the air that this was going to be a great day.

Location: Fira Santorini

Preparations: Boutique Hotel Panorama

Church: St Minas

Reception: Theros Wave Bar

Wedding Planner: Amalia Valvi Poema Weddings

Make Up artist: Bianca Treveza

Assistant photographer: Niki Marketaki

Videography: Kostas Moustakas & Benos Rigas WedFilms

Bride getting ready at Panorama Boutique HotelJonathon at the hotel’s swimming poolReady to goThe ceremony at Agios Minas ChurchWe arrived at Theros Wave Bar in Vlychada at dusk, my favorite time for pictures. And Theros is probably the best place to have your wedding reception in Santorini. I don’t think I could ask for more.

Christina paid a lot of attention to details, I got the nicest card with my name on I ever had at a wedding and food was delicious. My veal fillet was just the way I like it, medium raw.

Lots of laughter and tears at the speechesLet’s get this party started…

Me, Christina and Jonathon went there a couple hours earlier so we walk the little streets in Oia and take some engagement style photos in the picturesque town.

It was a long and tiring walk and the day was a bit too hot for everyone but we had a good time and it was well worth the effort.

We finished our photo shoot a little after sunset and the long walk increased our appetite.

The excellent food and service at Feredini restaurant was our reward for that.

I arrived at 11:35 Sunday morning and the tour had already started but Christina & Jon had already arrange that I get picked up and transfered at the boat they were in.

Alkyon (another tour boat) was waiting for me to arrive at Athinios port and get me to Hermes, our boat, at the volcano.

Well, I have to admit that even though I love tours, I am not a huge fan of boats, and even though in the end of the boat trip I managed to get sea sick, the scenery, the people and the hospitality of the couple made it an amazing experience that I am glad that iI didn’t miss. Did I mentioned the people? This was an amazing crowd, they came to Greece to have fun and they sure did. I just love it when people have fun!
The tour started at the volcano, I got on their boat right before their departure to the hot springs where we stoped for a swim (didn’t try that as it wasn’t very convenient for me) and then we docked to Amoudi bay to continue from there with the bus to Kamari for lunch and then the Santo Winery for some wine tasting in the sunset hour.
Almost half of the shots I took the first day were with my little Sony RX100 which proved to be an amazing camera and just perfect for the occasion.
Enjoy!

The feeling of being robbered is not a pleasent one and that turned me down a bit.

However since last week I have all my new stuf on my hands, a new much desired Canon 5D markIII, along with a few new lenses and accesories so now I am up and running again.

The new camera helped me forget about my stolen stuff and I can now concentrate on my job again.

So my first post after the burglary had to be something nice. So I’m posting one of my favorite weddings in Chania for 2011.

I was so happy that Kalli & Michalis chose me for their wedding, I simply cannot describe it.

They both live in Athens but their heart is in Crete.

This was a wedding I lived a little bit more than others since I joined them on their pre-wedding party and we also took a day trip together, to Elafonissi for a next day photo shoot.  It was my favorite wedding in Chania for 2011.

This is the first part with pictures from their wedding day.

Ceremony was in Profitis Ilias and the reception in Costa Costa, enjoy!

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What a lovely wedding it was… The couple Elias and Eliana, both doctors with a great taste in everything, had paid attention to every little detail in their wedding. Photography and videography could not be left out in this perfect setup.
George Pahountis was doing the stills and me and Kostas took care of the video. I believe that we all did a great job there.
Here is a short teaser Kostas just posted.
Thumbs up Kostas, it was my pleasure working with you again.

The party of course had a D.J.s part as well and Christos “Miller”, George Siras from Athens, and Juliet Sikora that traveled from Germany for Stathis & Ioanna wedding in the decks made everyone go mad dancing on the floor.

Stathi & Ioanna thank you for letting me be a part of your wedding, It was really a pleasure.

Spiros.

The Groom

Here comes the bride

At the reception, EsperosBride And Groom Entering Esperos and first danceThe live band Nostodia

The D.J.s, Christos Miller, George Sirasand Juliet Sikora

The groom with the photo and video guys!!!

Efi and Avraam’s wedding was my favorite Greek wedding for 2010

Lots of fun with the easy going couple and their enthusiastic guests plus a different photo shoot a few days after the wedding.

I actually bloged about this wedding at the WedPro blog a few months ago but I had to make a blog post on my own blog too.

Enjoy!

Best wishes for Efi & Avraam.

My second favorite wedding for this post is the wedding of Craig and Joanne. A lovely young couple from England that was realy fun to work with. Joanne is very photogenic and that made it really hard for me to choose my favorite pictures. Their wedding was in Koumos restaurant in Kalyves, everything there is self build with stones by the owner of the restaurant. A very interesting place indeed, with very good traditional Cretan food.

They had a very small but also very romantic wedding.

For me it was 4 hours drive back and forth for only two hours of shooting but it was well worth it.

Karen and John are English but they love Crete so much that they bought a house here. John actually comes in Crete for so many years now that he actually considers himself  Greek. They both actually asked me to write their names in Greek in their wedding album.

Their wedding was definately one of my favorites for 2010

Not much talking, just some of my favorite pictures from last year.

First,  Adelia and Donovan from South Africa

They got married in Rethymnon

Adelia looks so much like a Greek TV persona it’s amazing.

The reception was in Avli Restaurant, one of the nicest restaurants in Rethymnon

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The Cristening of Christos in Piraeus was one of my favorite Christenings in 2010