The “wedding of the year”, according to the local media in the country, between Nikolaos De Grece and Chrysi Vardinogianni took place in a historic Athens chapel on Friday afternoon, bringing together the royal descendants and relatives of the late former king of Greece Constantine and the eponymous Cretan family of industrialists and shipowners.
Nikolaos, styled as the “prince of Greece and Denmark”, was married to Chrysi, the daughter of Giorgos Vardinogiannis, a shipping, business and football executive of the same-name family, whose roots are from Rethymno, on Crete.
The marriage will be the second for both newlyweds.
Roughly 100 guests were in attendance at the modest-sized chapel of St. John Ragavá, located on the northeast side of the Acropolis, in the old quarter district of Plaka, where the narrow streets kept limousines several blocks aways. Several members of the Danish and Spanish royal families, close relatives of Nikolaos, were among the guests.
The Orthodox Christian wedding service, conducted with a Byzantine rite and chanting style, was officiated by the Metropolitan of Kissamos and Selinos, His Eminence Amphilochios, of the Church of Crete.
A reception will follow at a specially modified warehouse of the Yacht Club of Greece, in Piraeus.
