21 May, 2007

Mark and Hellas are engaged



On Saturday 19 May 2007, Hellas and I held our Engagement party at Fontana Amorosa in Liverpool. Greek engagements are pretty big and fancy. We had just over 100 guests - mostly relatives and friends from school, and Hellas had some people from MTC.

It has been kind of weird for us since I proposed in December. To Aussies we were engaged, while to Greeks we were getting engaged (you are engaged only after your engagement party). It was funny when I told my dad that we were engaged last Christmas. His reaction was, "What do you mean? What sort of engagement was that? Oh, alright, show me your ring." - He thought we had the engagement party without him.

Anyways, it's good to be engaged in both cultures. Now people can start hassling us about when we're going to get married. Yay!