Congratulations for your blog and keep on doing the good work.

I hope that your sister had a nice wedding and that she lives now a joyous and interesting life.

As an idea, I like it, that someone is collecting information and histories about the Greek weddings. Collections and documentations are always useful to people that are interested in the respective subject and to historians of the future.

But if you are doing that, because you want to save them, then I am afraid to tell you that nobody can save a dying custom. On the other hand, a custom that lives, an alive tradition does not need any help. For its life is not a decision of the participants that concerns the custom itself, but it is a form of expression to them. And as we all know, the several human expressions are common and everlasting whereas the forms of them change over the time. They live and die as we do.

A brief internet search in a greek bookstore some minutes ago gave me a list of some books related to your subject. Try in the category “Λαογραφία, ήθη και έθιμα”. I think that visiting some bookstores in Greece would be more fruitful, as internet services are not very spread there.

Best Regards

Alexandros