wedding photographer in Greece – Halkidiki wedding photographer
wedding photographer in Greece. Wedding photography portfolio of a wedding day at Halkidiki in Greece. As a Chalkidiki wedding photographer one of the places that I photograph at is of course Sithonia – Halkidiki and in this case Porto Karras (Marmaras) and Vourvourou.
Halkidiki is always considered to be as one of the top destinations in Greece for wedding photography, engagement photography, anniversary photography and wedding portraits photo session!
wedding photographer in Greece – Halkidiki wedding photographer. Sithonia – Vourvourou – Marmaras – Porto Karras
The story
Viorika and Paul
Viorika and Paul got married in Greece, at the spectacular “second leg”of Halkidiki Peninsula. They come from Romania but live at London.
Their wedding was a chill out, stylish and “easy going”alternative wedding as their personalities! What can I say (write) about them…friendly people, stress free, positive…what can I say, really!! A+ characters that left us all with the best of impressions. Viorika and Paul, I am not writing this because you choose me to be your wedding photographer, I honestly believe it Jand I am happy for you!!
The wedding
Now, back to the wedding! Their wedding was exactly as it should be in order to match Viorika and Paul. Stylish and alternative!! Not to forget to mention of course the excellent job that Konstantina from “willow weddings”did for them (there is a link further down for those who are interested)
The wedding and the reception was held at the Kohi Kohi beach bar – restaurant which is located within the Porto Karras premises at New Marmaras. The couple got ready at Athena Palace Village hotel.
Religious wedding
This was a Christian Orthodox religious wedding and I have to comment that it is very rare and also difficult to arrange such a wedding to be held by the beach and not inside a temple (unfortunately).
That made a big difference aesthetically and photographically of course!
The schedule
The wedding portraits photo sesssion
As we knew, according to the weddings timetable, that it was not possible to have a “wedding portraits”photo session on the same day, we arranged that wedding photography part to have it on another day. Our choice was “Vourvourou”. Very busy place, yes, but with patience and the weathers favor we managed to complete that session just before it got dark.
This is a small photographic and slideshow collection of THE day (s)
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Information about Halkidiki (or Chalkidiki)
Chalcidiceor Chalkidikeor Chalkidikior Halkidiki(Greek: Χαλκιδική, Chalkidikí, [xalciðiˈci]), is a peninsula and regional unit of Greece, part of the Region of Central Macedonia in Northern Greece. The autonomous Mount Athos region constitutes the easternmost part of the peninsula, but not of the regional unit. The capital of Chalkidiki is the main town of Polygyros, located in the centre of the peninsula.
Chalkidiki today is a popular summer tourist destination.
wedding photographer in Greece – Chalkidiki wedding photographer
Geography
The Cholomontas mountains lie in the north-central part of Chalkidiki. Chalkidiki consists of a large peninsula in the northwestern Aegean Sea, resembling a hand with three “fingers” (though in Greek these peninsulas are often referred to as “legs”) – Pallene (now Kassandra), Sithonia, and Agion Oros (the ancient Acte), which contains Mount Athos and its monasteries. Chalkidiki borders on the regional unit of Thessaloniki to the north.
Its largest towns are Nea Moudania (Νέα Μουδανιά), Nea Kallikrateia (Νέα Καλλικράτεια) and the capital town of Polygyros(Πολύγυρος).
There are several summer resorts on the beaches of all three fingers where other minor towns and villages are located, such as at Yerakini (Gerakina Beach), Neos Marmaras (Porto Carras), Ouranoupolis, Nikiti, Psakoudia, Kallithea (Pallene/Pallini, Athos)
wedding photographer in Greece – Chalkidiki wedding photographer
Tourism
Chalkidiki has been a popular summer tourist destination since the late 1950s when people from Thessaloniki started spending their summer holidays in the coastal villages. In the beginning tourists rented rooms in the houses of locals. By the 1960s, tourists from Austria and Germany started to visit Chalkidiki more frequently. Since the start of the big tourist boom in the 1970s, the whole region has been captured by tourism In the region there is a golf course, with plans for four others in the future.
History
Map of the Kingdom of Macedon, with Chalkidiki shown among the other districts of the kingdom
The first Greek settlers in this area came from Chalcis and Eretria, cities in Euboea, around the 8th century BC who founded cities such as Mende,Toroni and Scine[a second wave came from Andros in the 6th century BCwho founded cities such as Akanthos.The ancient city of Stageira was the birthplace of the great philosopher Aristotle. Chalkidiki was an important theatre of war during the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. Later, the Greek colonies of the peninsula were conquered by Philip II of Macedon and Chalkidiki became part of Macedonia (ancient kingdom). After the end of the wars between the Macedonians and the Romans, the region became part of the Roman Empire, along with the rest of Greece. At the end of the Roman Republic (in 43 BC) a Roman colony was settled in Cassandreia, which was later (in 30 BC) resettled by Augustus.
Mount Athos
During the following centuries, Chalkidiki was part of the Byzantine Empire (East Roman Empire). On a chrysobull of Emperor Basil I, dated 885, the Holy Mountain(Mount Athos) was proclaimed a place of monks, and no laymen or farmers or cattle-breeders were allowed to be settled there. With the support of Nikephoros II Phokas, the Great Lavra monastery was founded soon afterwards. Today, over 2,000 monks from Greece and many other Eastern Orthodox countries, such as Romania, Moldova, Georgia, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Russia, live an ascetic life in Athos, isolated from the rest of the world. Athos with its monasteries has been self-governing ever since.
Ottoman period
After a short period of domination by the Latin Kingdom of Thessalonica, the area became again Byzantine until its conquest by the Ottomans in 1430. During the Ottoman period, the peninsula was important for its gold mining. In 1821, the Greek War of Independence started and the Greeks of Chalkidiki revolted under the command of Emmanouel Pappas, a member of Filiki Eteria, and other local fighters. The revolt was progressing slowly and unsystematically. The insurrection was confined to the peninsulas of Mount Athos and Kassandra. One of the main goals was to restrain and detain the coming of the Ottoman army from Istanbul, until the revolution in the south (mainly Peloponnese) became stable. Finally, the revolt resulted in a decisive Ottoman victory at Kassandra. The survivors, among them Papas, were rescued by the Psarian fleet, which took them mainly to Skiathos, Skopelos and Skyros. The Ottomans proceeded in retaliation and many villages were burnt.
Recently
Finally, the peninsula was incorporated into the Greek Kingdom in 1912 after the Balkan Wars. In June 2003, at the holiday resort of Porto Carras located in Neos Marmaras, Sithonia, leaders of the European Union presented the first draft of the European Constitution (see History of the European Constitution for developments after this point).
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