About Big Fat Greek Day

Christina and Peter hold hands and dance together in a rustic outdoor setting with a stone wall and wooden door in the background.

My Greek Wedding Journey

I’m Greek. I moved abroad years ago, lived in Amsterdam, and a few years back found myself planning a destination wedding on the shores of Crete.

It was the most beautiful thing I have ever organized, and the most stressful. I trusted a wedding planner who took our deposit, overpromised on everything, and delivered almost none of it. Fortunately we found out in time for me to take on the planning into my own hands.

We rebuilt from scratch, living abroad, with no local contacts and no clarity on who to trust. The wedding was beautiful in the end. But it did not need to be that hard.

What this became

After the wedding, I started writing about what I had actually learned. Real costs, real vendor decisions, the paperwork nobody explains clearly. I expected a few hundred readers. What happened was something different.

Couples started writing to me directly. Not just asking questions but sharing their situations. I started taking calls and giving free guidance. They were telling me about their experiences with vendors; the good and the bad. We have now connected over 80 couples with venues, planners, and photographers across Greece. I listen to every one of them.

I’m not your wedding planner. Here’s why that matters.

A wedding planner in Greece manages your budget, coordinates your vendors, and handles the logistics of building your day. A day-of coordinator runs the timeline on the day itself. Both are valuable. Neither of them is what you need first.

What you need first is someone who helps you make the decisions that everything else depends on. Which island fits your guest count and your budget. Which vendor categories are negotiable and which are not. What a fair price looks like before you receive a quote. What questions to ask before you sign anything.

That is where I come in. By the time you hire a planner, you should already know the right island, have a realistic budget, and understand what you are committing to. You should not be learning those things from the person you are paying to execute them.

Couples who get this clarity first go into every conversation with a planner, a venue, or a photographer from a position of knowledge. They do not get surprised. They do not overspend on things they did not know to negotiate. And they do not end up three months from their wedding wondering what happened.

What I built

After years of writing articles, answering emails from couples across four continents, and rebuilding my own wedding from scratch, I packaged everything that actually matters into a small set of planning guides.

Real invoice numbers from a real Greek wedding. The questions that save couples thousands at venue negotiations. The complete paperwork process in plain English. The full planning roadmap for couples doing this from abroad.

No fluff. No padding. Just the work.

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