Sunday, March 05, 2006

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Yesterday I had the privilege of attending a Greek wedding. My coach, Jim Plakas, got married ina Greek Orthodox church downtown and our team was all invited. First of all, we walked into the building as the bride was getting ready to go down the aisle... she was coming down the stairs before entering the sanctuary and so we hustled our butts and sat down.
The wedding was so good. I straight up understood absolutely none of the ceremony because it was all sung and mainly in Greek, it was so interesting though. They did all this ceremonious stuff that I didn't understand. It was so much fun though! It definitely felt like My Big Fat Greek Wedding because there were all these ladies in big coats with big hair who are all loud and they just talk all the time and yadda yadda. It was good times.
We had tons of time to kill between the ceremony and the reception so we went to Boston Pizza and then to the mall. Hmm.. the reception was amazing! The food was so incredible and then they had Greek dancing. We just went up and joined in the circle dancing even though we had no idea what we were doing and it was so much fun! Like.. who knew you could have so much fun dancing in a circle just trying to figure out what you're supposed to be doing? It was excellent. Then they had some non-greek songs that my team danced to. Those girls are so much fun. I love them and I'm going to miss them so much! ps. WE GO TO BREAK PLATES! It was awesome! They handed out plates and we got to throw them while Jim was dancing and then while other people were dancing and it was so fun! It is symbolic for something, but I have no idea what so it was just entertaining. My first two didn't break but then Jim's brother told me how to do it properly and they began shattering and it was so fun!! I'll post some pictures when the girls give me some.

1 comment:

Lynn Webb said...

I want to smash plates! I broke a glass the other day but that was because I am clumsy! Miss ya!