Greece

Matchmaking, the practice of putting two people together in marriage, has existed across many cultures of the world, Greece included.

Alonissos island is considered to be an ecological paradise by many as it has the largest Natural Marine Park in Europe. As of August 3, it boasts the first Underwater Museum in Greece. Now the people who organized the...

A 60-year-old American architect who has two children with ex-wife Christie Brinkley recently got engaged to his 21-year-old girlfriend on Santorini. The couple was vacationing on the idyllic Greek island on September 15 when Peter Cook popped the question with...

A touching video of a traditional marriage proposal, shot in the streets of Heraklion, the largest city on Crete, has gone viral recently. The future groom, accompanied by his friends and musicians, walks the central streets of Heraklion playing traditional...

Greece continues to have the lowest birth rate outside of marriage in the EU, according to the European Union's statistical authority, Eurostat. Specifically, only 9.4 percent of births in Greece in 2016 were by unmarried couples or single parents, compared...

Nine years after the first same-sex marriage was conducted on Tilos by the mayor of the tiny Aegean island, the Greek Supreme Court ruled it as invalid, on Thursday. The court said the ruling expresses the Greek rule of law,...

A study conducted by In4Youth has shown that young Greeks are delaying marriage due to the financial crisis. Many youth cannot afford to live on their own, the study revealed, forcing them to continue living with their parents and making...

Twenty-five people have been arrested by Attica’s security division over the past few days in connection to a criminal gang which issued residence and work permits for women from eastern Europe through marriages of convenience or sham civil partnerships. The...

A wedding ceremony filled to the brim with details from exchanging of rings and throwing of the bouquet took place at Psarou on the Greek island of Mykonos. Some 50 friends and family of the grooms witnessed the ceremony as the couple...

More couples are expected flock to Cyprus from abroad to have a civil marriage on the island of love and Aphrodite, bringing into the country revenue exceeding 120 million euro this summer, Tourist Officer of the Cyprus Tourism Organization...

A number of reports coming from Brazil point to the purported marriage break-up of French-Greek heiress Athina Onassis, aged 31, and her Brazilian husband, showjumper Alvaro Affonso "Doda" de Miranda Neto, aged 43. Brazilian weekly newspaper Epoca says that...

The most unexpected wedding of the year took place in the Kefalonia town hall between an 85-year-old woman and a 33-year-old man. Specifically, according to kefaloniapress, the wedding took place a few days ago at the local town hall. Furthermore,...

Despite international condemnation and a European Court of Human Rights' ruling last year that Greece's exclusion of same-sex couples from marriages or civil unions was in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights, Greek Justice Minister Haralambos Athanasiou expressed...

According to Imerisia newspaper, the new collective agreement for private sector employees signed this month does not provide for marriage and child benefits. Up until now, employees received a 10% benefit for being married and 5% for each child. The...

It was in the 80's when a beautiful young Greek girl decided not to lead an ordinary life. She was in France studying in college, when she had to make a choice for her career that apparently would change...