Wedding photographer Kastelorizo
As a wedding photographer I have been a few times to Kastelorizo for wedding photography bookings.
Photographing a wedding at Kastelorizo is such a wonderful experience! A wedding there, is the BIG thing of the day-week-month for this small and glorious island!
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Usually weddings there have at least some cultural and traditional elements if not all the wedding is based on tradition and culture.
The same happened with Angela and Daniels wedding.
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Angela and Daniel and their relatives and friends came all the way from Australia to get married at Kastelorizo island. It was a two days wedding since all the Kastelorizo islands wedding customs and traditions were followed. I was there to record them and this is a small presentation of what happened on those two days.
On the first day, two boats took the couple, the families and the guests for a boat trip within the harbor with musicians on board. Everybody knew that a wedding was taking place! Later, the bride “smoked” the grooms shoes, served drinks to all guests and together with all the other women made bracelets made from the wild herbs that earlier on that day kids had picked from the cliffs. She then washed the grooms hair and the two of them together with the guests started the dance festivities that lasted until early morning hours. wedding photographer Kastelorizo – Kastelorizo wedding destination
Next day was the big wedding day!
The wedding took place at the villages church with a Greek Orthodox ceremony. We had a 10 minutes only, wedding portraits photo session and after that Angela and Daniel made their entrance to the reception at Megisti hotel, the rest you can imagine….eating Greek delicacies, drinking exceptional Greek wine and spirits and dancing, dancing, dancing and laughing, laughing, laughing!! 🙂
My new friends were very pleased with the photographic results as her brother honored me by choosing me to be the wedding photographer of his wedding!!
Angelas brother got recently married and I cooperated also with him and his wife!
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wedding at another not so well known Greek island
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Kastellorizo or Castellorizo (Greek: Καστελλόριζο – Kastellorizo, officially Μεγίστη – Megísti or Meyísti) is a Greek island and municipality located in the southeastern Mediterranean.[2] It lies roughly 2 kilometres (1 mile) off the south coast of Turkey, about 570 km (354 mi) southeast of Athens and 125 km (78 mi) east of Rhodes, almost halfway between Rhodes and Antalya and 280 km (170 mi) to Cyprus.[2] Kastellorizo is part of the Rhodes regional unit.[3]
The island has become more popular in recent years, among tourists looking for an isolated place in the Dodecanese, thanks also to the 1991 Oscar-winning movie Mediterraneo, by Gabriele Salvatores, which is set on the island during the Second World War.
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Kastellorizo is (with the exception of the nearby islet of Strongyli) the easternmost Greek island and is situated in the Eastern Mediterranean. It lies about 2 km (1 mi) from the Anatolian coastal town of Kaş, more or less halfway between Rhodes and Antalya. Cyprus is about 280 km (170 mi) to the south-east. It is six kilometres (3.7 miles) long and three kilometres (1.9 miles) wide, with a surface of 9.2 square kilometres (3.6 sq mi). It has a triangular shape, and is oriented from NE to SW. The island features three capes: Agios Stefanos (north), Nifti (east) and Pounenti (south west); between the first two there is a wide and accommodating bay, the island’s main harbor, where one finds the only town on the island. Cape Agios Stefanos, the nearest to Anatolia, is 2250m south of the modern Turkish town of Kaş (Greek: Andífli, the Ancient Greek City of Antiphéllos). Cape Nifti lies some greater distance from the Anatolian coast. The island is mountainous, with high and steep coastlines, which become more difficult to access moving west. The soil is composed of limestone, and produces only small amounts of olives, grapes and beans. On the island there is no source of drinking water. The Municipality of Megísti includes the offshore islands of Ro and Strongyli as well as several smaller islets. It has a total land area of 11.978 square kilometres (4.625 sq mi).
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The island is connected with Rhodes, Piraeus and Kaş by ferry. Passenger ferries’ frequency is as follows:
Air connection is provided by Olympic Air, which operates from Kastellorizo Airport 4 times/week (winter period). There is one small bus in service on Kastellorizo and it is used to collect tourists from the airport.
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Kastellorizo’s inhabitants had characteristic traditions, partly influenced by the Muslim tradition.There were at least three types of women’s dress, which used brilliantly colored fabric, and women wore necklaces, brooches, pendants and earrings made from ancient Venetian or Byzantine gold coins
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The other types of dress were similar, but not so lavish and without fur decorations.The girls’ dress was simpler. Single and engaged girls, and married women and widows were also distinguished by dress.
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