Those crazy Orthodox

ufonium2 said:

In the scene where they are introducing the fiance to all the family, almost everyone's name is some variant of "Nicholas." That's funny in itself, but when you watch the credits, notice the large percentage of Greek actors credited whose names are some variant of "Constantine." They are definitely making fun of themselves. We joke about this in my church too, becuase the prayer list goes something like: "Ivan, Tatiana, Ivan, Vladimir, Ludmilla, Ivan, Vladimir, Tatiana, Ivan, Alexi, Vladimir, Ludmilla, Ivan...."

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Iconographer said:

The best schene in that movie is during the wedding, when the father of the groom says to his wife "It's all Greek to me." As I have mentioned many times over, I was the only Orthodox person other than the priest and the choir at my wedding. So despite the fact that everyone attending had a booklet which I wrote explaining the liturgy, I am sure they were all thinking "it's all Russian to me."

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Oblio said:

Much of our family is Baptist. The beer and wine at the reception wasn't a big hit with them Lucky for the attendees, the wedding itself was in the Episcopal chapel where we were meeting at that time so most could sit.

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nicodemus said:

The majority of the people at my wedding were Hindu or protestant. My wife & I are both Orthodox, but we're the only ones in our family. The standing up thing didn't go over too well

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