A mum-of-two has married a dancing Greek waiter - after meeting him at her first wedding.
Natalie Perry, from Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, and now-husband Fred Kasa first laid eyes on each other at the taverna where he worked in Crete.
The 37-year-old had just gotten hitched to her first husband in a ceremony on the beach, before their plate-smashing reception at a nearby restaurant.
Pictures of the evening in 2012 show bride Natalie and Fred, now 36, holding hands while doing the traditional “Zorba” dance with a group of family and friends.
Five years later, she revisited the restaurant after she and her husband split in 2016.
The two instantly recognised each other and after a whirlwind holiday romance, became a couple, the Daily Star reports.
On February 8, they tied the knot, and swapped the Zorba - during which people hold arms and kick their legs - for a first dance as husband and wife.
“I still can’t believe that my husband danced with me at both my weddings,” Natalie says.
“It’s just crazy to think when I danced with him at my first wedding to my ex-husband that I was going to marry him.
“It’s funny how life can turn out.”
Natalie, who has been to Crete every year for the past 25 years, says she noticed Fred watching her as soon as she stepped back into the taverna.
“We went to the Greek taverna again because the kids loved the smashing plates and dancing in the street,” she explains.
“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.
“I went back to the table I was talking to my mum and said he had asked me out. She went up to him and gave him my name and number. He asked me out for a coffee the next day.
“We clicked right away. I recognised him immediately from before, I knew it was him. When we went out for a coffee Fred remembered my wedding and started talking about it.”
The two hit it off and spent the rest of the week together until Natalie had to fly back to the UK.
“I knew she was the one I wanted to marry. The feeling was crazy,” Fred says.
“Now she is my wife, I am just so happy and we are so happy together.”
After they met up again in Athens for a holiday, Fred surprised his future wife by turning on her doorstep with flowers.
He proposed six months after the couple moved in together in December 2017, at Natalie’s parents house.
They booked their wedding as soon as Fred was granted permission to marry by the Home Office, and are now hoping to honeymoon where they first met, in Crete.
Natalie added: “I always thought he was good-looking. He’s the one I’ve been waiting for my entire life.”
