when staying in line after the ceremony to salute all within the family you say [at least to the younger people and for sure to the bride and groom] "na zisete" wich means something like "long life to you".

so traditionally after the actual ceremony in the church or in the monastery theclosest family on both sides stand on a line and shake hands with the guests and gets gratulated.
then in the end of the line you give a small white certain envelope with money inside and a message on a small note with your name aswell.
and then you get some traditional Cretan sweets to bring with you.

but before that there is a line of traditional events that accure..

for me I missed 2 main ones this my sisters marraige with Vasilis.
the one where "you make the bed" and the housband have to approve so this goes on for a while where he tears it up and then you make it agin. and in hte end you throw money and sweets onto the bed for good luck with getting children etc.

then also the man with his friends etc has an event where they drink and then drag his clothes of him and put new on for the future new life.

the marriage day when I came out to my familys place I lerned some more of the classical traditions.
they dress up etc in the home and the bride steps over the front door fram with her right fot first.
then after her dad comes and puts on her beatiful wedding shoe.

then pictures are taken

in this case the groom went by in a car dressed with flowers etc
his car is followed by many cars making a lot of noice with the car horn [his family side] - this about 6pm
then we waitied since that is custom for the groom to having to wait for his bride ha ha
so we did a similar thng with many cars in a row loudly driving towards the church, but when very closed and they had seen us we turned on a side road for an extra ride to make them wait even a bit more..

then we [the bridesmaids, us the brothers and the mother & father] led her up to meet her future husband.
then inside this small monastery it was super packed with people and on a small surface in the front the actual ceremony was held by 2 priests and a "singer"..

after a lot of old greek talking/praying by the priests and some kissing the bible, and 2 golden head rings crossed over and put on their heads by the "best man"/Kombaro the priest took the grooms handkerchief and they grabbed the other side, and the priest led them around the altar table and at that time the rice caos came, everyone was throwin A LOT of rice at the wedding couple and the priests ha ha.

and then out to be gratulated in the row I mentioned earlier..

after this most people started to leave and head for the wedding reception/dinner/party 1 hour away.

after most had left some traditional "black shirts" men shot out in the air with their guns also along with the tradition in this greek orthodox style on Crete..

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