A divorced mum has married the plate-smashing Greek waiter she danced with at her first wedding.
Natalie Perry, 37, met waiter Fred Kasa, 36, at the reception after tying the knot with her first husband following a beach wedding in Crete.
Photos show her in her wedding dress holding his hand – and her husband’s – while they all perform the traditional ‘Zorba’ dance at her reception.
Five years later Natalie from Gloucestershire revisited the restaurant after splitting up with her husband – and instantly bonded with Fred.
They developed a romance and just last month, they got married.
Natalie said: ‘I cant believe still that my husband danced with me at both my weddings!
‘It’s funny how life can turn out – you just don’t know what’ll pan out.’
Mum-of-two Natalie has holidayed in Crete annually for the past 25 years.
Her love for the Greek island saw her marry her first husband there in 2012, in a beach ceremony.
In the restaurant nearby, Fred was working as a waiter.
The whole group burst into the Zorba – a popular dance where people hold arms and kick their legs – for ten minutes.
During the performance Fred and Natalie danced side by side.
She continued to take yearly visits to the Greek island with her husband until they separated in 2016.
The next year Natalie went back to Crete on a family holiday – this time without her ex-husband – and returned to the restaurant she had partied at on the night of her wedding.
Natalie explained: ‘That night the Greek dancer was watching me – I could feel his eyes.
‘I went to the toilet to wash my hands and he came up to me and we started chatting.
‘He asked me out for a coffee the next day. We just had this connection and we clicked right away.
‘I recognised him immediately from before, I knew it was him.’
Fred had remembered Natalie from the wedding and the pair spent the rest of the week together before Natalie flew back to the UK.
They then began a long-distance relationship.
In 2017, Fred moved to the UK and six months later proposed.
The pair booked a slot at the registry office as soon as Fred received a letter of permission to marry Natalie from the Home Office, and got married in early February.
The pair are now planning their honeymoon later in the year – to Crete.
Fred said: ‘I knew she was the one I wanted to marry. The feeling was crazy. I had never been so in love with anyone. Every day I missed her more.
‘Now she is my wife, I am just so happy and we are so happy together.
‘To think I danced with her at her first wedding and then we had a dance at our own wedding is crazy!’
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source https://metro.co.uk/2020/04/05/divorced-woman-marries-waiter-danced-first-wedding-12512529/?ITO=squid
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