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[SKI-preo]

I married a 3rd Generation heavily Aussiefied Cypriot Girl- her Great great granddad came here(in OZ) before WW1 and moved to Country town where he was the only Cypriot or Greek for hundreds of Kilometers. When we got married her 2nd gen mum (married to a fresh Kyrenian like me) gave her $200 as a deposit on a washing machine- my relatives who are still pretty fresh off the banana boat told me what the F!#$ !!!! you would have received a fully furnished apartment and maybe even a car if you got married in Cyprus. I replied a dowry is not free its conditional on a lifetime of upkeep of some delusional high maintenance princess and putting up with obnoxious in-laws. Nothing in life is free. The average house in Sydney is close to $AUD 700,000 these days.It is a small price to pay for a lifetime of freedom.

[FragnaticDeath]

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And I was a little surprised to find out that some newly weds treat it in a very business-like fashion and actually keep an account record book of who gave how much! If they hadn't stumped up a decent amount, they were accused of only coming for the food and drink and eating and drinking more money's worth than they gave as a gift. lol!


i have been to weddings to just eat then leave and when i shake the brides hand and tell them na zisete they look at me like who the h is that lol

Hahah i have so done that with lots of friends in paliometoxo. We just go in from the backdoor. No need for a greeting

[Abdul, The Bulbul Amir]

when each person usually puts 50 euros or more in the envelope you would invite the whole of cyprus ;p and usually the people who get married here invite everyone the whole village and we get so many invitations in the post EVERY DAY more in the summer of courser and september time and i dont know 99% of the people that send invitations.

Mine would be a traditional cypriot wedding where we have the close relatives come during the day and then onto the church and then to a restorant/hotel maybe 4 seasons or somewhere high class. and then after that hire a ferrari and go to a presidentual suite somewhere like hawaii or somewhere exotic.

1st class all the way..

You could always spend your holiday in Girne I believe a suite in the castle would be more than adequate for your needs.

[paliometoxo]

thanks for the suggestion but no i would not spend it in cyprus.. we call it Keryneia

this is something that hopefully will happen just once in my life so i would want to go somewhere very far like hawaii or somewhere exotic!

how about you abdul where would you go? or where did you go if your married?