The Special Moment

There we were, standing in front of either the mayor of Pafos, or someone that resembles a mayor anyway, with Lindsay looking beyond beautiful, and me doing my best to get out of dry fit for a day.

The ceremony began as we gazed into eachother's eyes and fought back tears of joy. The mayor began sputtering some words of love, and finally it was time to repeat after him. The problem of course being that he was speaking English with a thick Greek accent which for most words was indistinguishable.

Fighting back laughter I began to follow his lead, and spoke of a life long happiness with Lindsay, a life where I would be committed and dedicated to our love. Lindsay did the same, though I'm sure we both butchered a word here and there along the way.



Then came the most interesting part of the ceremony. It quickly changed from romantic banter into threats of jail time, and public humiliation if we were ever to split from eachother. We were literally being threatened during our "vows"... Following this, and at the very end of our ceremony as we were signing our Marriage Certificate, celebration music was "cued" on the nearby CD player to the tune of... "DOOO, DOOO, DOOO DOO DOOO, DOOO DOO, DOOO DOOO DOOO DOOO DOOO DOOO".... Even more hilarious was the person that was present to hit the "play" button was the angriest civil worker of all time, the same lady that disgustingly accepted our request to wed!

Up until this point I still hadn't heard "You may kiss the bride", and I was dying to kiss Lindsay but didn't want to jump the gun. It seemed pretty unromantic to avoid this kiss altogether, and then finally it was time. "You may kiss your bride", I heard in a thick Greek accent, and that's what I did!



True to form, it made us laugh hysterically outside of the Town Hall, and who could have asked for a better ceremony? Our witnesses were two locals from Cyprus (Our wedding planner and her husband) who awkwardly asked us if we were getting married strictly for Visa purposes, and our gift was a bottle of local wine from the Town Hall of Pafos. It also came with four "wine bottle" gadgets, that I'm sure Momma Parkinson will teach us about when we return home.

What a perfect way to know that I have Lindsay by my side, for the rest of my days...