When we first decided to get married, we already had a list of ideals in our heads that we both wanted to achieve. We knew beyond all things that we didn’t want any of our friends and family to be there…we spend enough time with those guys and they weren’t invited. We knew that we wanted to be on a quiet island, somewhere in the World that had good weather, friendly people, turquoise sea and relative seclusion. We knew that we wanted to be as free to come and go as we pleased, whilst feeling that we were in complete safety. The main thing that we knew though, was that we did not have the first idea how we could make our dreams, our reality.
After much hot air dodging from our respective families and a raft of general appeasement that preceded, my Sister suggested that there would be no better place in the world than Paxos… She had been there the year before and thought it to be the greatest find.
We soon started looking at the Island and from the pictures on the internet, we knew that we would concur with my sister’s opinion, so we set our sights firmly on the Island and tried to find the relevant information.
We got in touch with Sam and Stuart and told them what it was that we wanted to do. They very swiftly opened up dialogue with us and were organised and unflappable in any and all situations that we asked of them…. My tendency is to always look for what will go wrong before it happens and my continually spiralling thoughts were just in free falling tatters, of things like; the house will be unfinished and on a building site, or We won’t get the date that we want at the Town Hall and we have paid for the holiday, or Sam and Stuart don’t exist and it is all an elaborate ploy to empty bank accounts set up by Somali Pirates ....and so on. Stuart and Sam however, had EVERY aspect of the event more than covered.
Our stay in Paxos was beyond measure. Perfection in every way…from the accommodation to the fantastic people to the wedding and more besides. If you have not been to Paxos, then there can not be a more beautiful and welcoming place anywhere on Earth all surrounded by the most vividly beautiful blue Sea and providing front row tickets for the most spectacular Sunset Bar.
Much more besides though, is that there are very few people that I would recommend to anyone to be able to put all of your trust and dreams in the hands of, but without doubt, Sam and Stuart are.