My Big Fat Greek Wedding (True story)

Many many years, ago, in a small restaurant in Toronto, my wife and I invited a couple dozen friends and family to join us for a dinner, and our wedding. We gathered together, ate good food, drank lots of wine, and being a half Greek wedding, lots of ouzo.

And as a bit of a surprise to just about everyone there (including myself and my wife), We also had a traditional Greek bouzouki band. Not just any though. Somehow my father managed to hire THE band in everyone’s favourite Greek movie, My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

Yep, that’s the dude that played at our wedding.

I never wanted a massive wedding, and this was my wife’s second time getting married, and she certainly didn’t want the big production all over again. It was a bit of a crazy experience, and a wild night, and not everything went exactly as planned - but it sure was memorable, and that, when it comes right down to it, is what a wedding should be. Unique, personal, and memorable.