28 May 2021 4:55pm
The bitterness of Melbourne’s fourth lockdown which kicked off at 11.59pm on Thursday has been a hard pill to swallow, especially for those who had to cancel plans.
Those feeling it the hardest are brides and grooms who had planned to get married this weekend – especially those who had cancelled their plans last year as the pandemic raged.
Some of these brides and grooms scrambled to tie the knot ahead of the latest ‘circuit breaker’ lockdown, with Fr Evmenios Vasilopoulos, the Archdiocesan Vicar of Northcote telling
Neos Kosmos that the winter season is not usually chosen for weddings, however some of those which were set to take place on the weekend were rushed for Thursday ahead of lockdown.
Artemis and Shaun Barker are another couple who battled a multitude of issues before they could climb the steps of the church.
Last Saturday, 21 May, at Carlton’s St John’s Orthodox Church, about a year and a half after the original date and after two postponements the couple was able to seal the deal.
The bride’s father, Nikos Volos, shared that the couple was set to get married in February 2020.
One week before the wedding, the San Remo Ballroom had caught fire leading the newlyweds to postponement the event the first time.
“The children panicked, they started looking for a new place, they finally succeeded and the wedding was postponed to 9 May, 2020. But then the lockdown happened and the rest is a well-known story,” Mr Volos told