Sunday 13 June 2027 · Chora, Naxos
It is a long way to come for one evening, so we have written down everything you need to get here.
We met in the queue for a ferry to Sifnos in 2019, both on our own, both having missed the earlier boat. Nora was reading; Ilias asked what it was and then pretended he had read it.
Six years, two cities and one very patient cat later, we are doing this properly.
Be seated
Agios Nikolaos, Chora
The walk up from the port takes about fifteen minutes and it is uphill, so leave the good shoes for later.
The ceremony
Agios Nikolaos, Chora
Buses to the reception
From the church
Ten minutes by road.
Dinner
Ktima Aliki
There is a lot of it.
Buses back to Chora
And again at 02:30 and at 04:00.
The church
Agios Nikolaos
Chora, Naxos 84300
Fifteen minutes uphill from the port, through the old town. If you are walking straight off a ferry, allow more time than the map gives you.
See on mapThe reception
Ktima Aliki
Agios Prokopios road, Naxos 84300
Ten minutes from the church by car. Buses leave the church at 19:15 and come back to Chora at 01:00, 02:30 and 04:00, so nobody needs to drive.
See on mapThe only thing we genuinely need is for you to get on the boat. If you would still rather bring something, we are putting whatever comes towards the honeymoon in Japan.
Dress code: whatever survives a boat and a beach.
Everyone comes through Athens, whichever city you start from. From there it is either the plane or the boat. Olympic Air flies Athens to Naxos in about forty-five minutes on a small propeller aircraft; there are only a handful of seats a day and they go early, so book that first if you want it. Otherwise it is the ferry from Piraeus: around five and a half hours on a conventional boat, three and a half to four on a fast one. Summer timetables for 2027 are only published over the winter before, so there is nothing firm to book yet. We will email them to everyone who has replied as soon as they are out.
Yes. Naxos is a short hop from Mykonos and from Santorini, with boats most days in June, so you do not need to route back through Athens.
The day before at the latest. Boats get cancelled for wind, and we would rather you were on the island the night before than watching the weather from a quay in Piraeus. Most people are planning three or four nights.
Chora if you want to walk home from the church. Agios Prokopios or Agia Anna if you would rather be on the beach and do not mind a short taxi. We are not booking rooms for anyone, but if you want a steer, put the question in the note at the bottom of the reply form and we will tell you what we know.
The reply form asks for your name, your email address, whether you are coming, how many of you there are, the names of your party, your meal choice, any dietary notes, and whatever you write in the note. It comes to the two of us and to nobody else, we use it only to plan the day and to send you the ferry times, and we delete it after the wedding.