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– ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΕΚΔΟΣΗ ΕΔΩ –

Ever since I was born , Santorini island was for me a destination that would travel to , for two reasons… First a beautiful holiday destination only for couples, that always wanted to go and never decided to … And secondly as the top wedding destination of the world …

And maybe I didn’t , because probably thought this island was a bit overrated for what it offers to its guests, besides the beautiful view …

But everything changed this year … The marriage of Stephen and Christine, a beautiful couple who lives in Canada for many years now, with some Greek family roots. A few months ago, when they contacted me to discuss about being their lucky wedding photographer , and announced me that their marriage will be on Santorini island , a huge smile appeared on my face, as if everything went well, I would have the chance to see why this place with its small white houses and the beautiful sunset, was the desired setting of most couples of the entire world…

Within a few days , we arranged all the details for Christine and Stephen wedding day and with our partner top videographer Pavlos Avagianos, we departed from the airport «Odysseas Elytis» of Mytilene and got into the plane for the final destination of Santorini island…

After about three hours, we disembarked from the plane and we headed to our hotel in Oia … A different landscape than we used to, but again we did not see nothing exceptional to spread the «magic» that we have seen in pictures before and all described to us …

We talked with the bride and groom  and with the excellent wedding planner, Ms. Julia Nikolaou, which was responsible for fully organizing this beautiful wedding day and we sorted out all of the schedule details and get started …

Our first stop, the Cathedral of Santorini, where we would earlier set up all the equipment , for everything to be ready for the ceremony … We left our hotel, with fully creative mood , but simultaneously with anxiety that appears at the start of everywedding day , because of the great responsibility and the great expectations that all couples have from us …

During our drive , the landscape still remained beautiful, but not what we expected.. We were continuously discussing about that and really wondering … After about a 10 minutes drive , we left the car and walked the crowdy way to the Cathedral that stood out above all the houses and shops , that were full of tourists…

We will both never forget the moment we arrived to the end of uphill and turned to the side of the Caldera …. All these images we saw the past years and all people ecstatic described to us, went before us …. A great painting full of blue and white, and gorgeous images that were created in every angle that you turned your face… Pavlos and I , stared at each other and smiled … We didn’t talk to each other , but we said a lot…  it was the perfect background for every couple being in love… We knew that if we would add the love of Stephen and Christina , with our point of view , will create compositions and captures that will definitely stay in all of our minds … Every corner of the landscape in front of us , was an argument justifying why this island was the top wedding destination…

Stephen and Christina, may you always be so happy, in love, as these moments we captured and spent together … We tried to do everything we could to capture your dreamy wedding into clicks and videos and we hope that the final result is something that looks so close to them .. .

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