Simon & Theodia

The year was 2017, the month July and the location was our dear friends’ wedding, when Simon made the move to introduce himself just before dinner. Theodia was in her own world, of course, spending most of the time on the dance floor with her friends. Though we did get a few chances for some small talk here and there, that evening.

Upon spending some time together, we came to realise that we had way more in common, like the people in our close circles, the fact that our families knew each other very well, or even the fact that Simon was christened at Theodia’s family restaurant. It sounded too bizarre to be real… But it seems that Fate had a plan all these years growing up, to this very moment… To cross paths at this stage of our lives.

For our first date, Simon chose for us to spend the afternoon off-roading with the Jimny, a first time experience for Theodia; then teaching her how to crossbow, it took some strength at the beginning on Theodia’s part but managed to hit bullseye eventually; and finishing it off with sushi for dinner. It was a day filled with lots of laughter and memories!

Several dates later, in order to ask Theodia officially, Simon ‘stole’ an African-style bracelet from his brother’s inventory and presented it as a token of his love, asking to be his ‘girlfriend’. Yes, cheesy, but she loved it! A few months later, he surprised her with a Christmas gift, a key. Since then, we have been living together in our Amathusia beach house.

After six years filled with fun experiences, travel and beautiful memories, Simon finally made the decision to propose. Of all the places on Earth that we have travelled to… he chose to do it next to our home at the top of the hill at Acropolis of Amathous, at the Temple of Aphrodite. To be fair, it is overlooking the beautiful skyline of Limassol from both sides of the hill, with a view of the Mediterranean Sea and was under the full moonlight. This is a place of great significance to us, because apart from its ancient and spiritual importance, it was a place that we had spent one of our first dates. He might have taken his ‘sweet-ass time’, but it feels like we both finally found our person.

Our engagement photos were taken at Zapallo bay, a secluded protected beach, which was the setting of one of our first dates.

We would be honoured to have our friends and family with us on our special day, to celebrate our love and union.