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Matchmaking: Traditional Arranged Marriages in Greece


Matchmaking: Traditional Arranged Marriages in Greece
More than half of marriages worldwide are arranged. Credit: public domain
If you are looking for love today, you need go no further than your smart phone for an arranged marriage. However, for your Greek grandparents, the matchmaker, the “Proxenitis,” was the key to wedded bliss or not.
Matchmaking, the practice of putting two people together for the purpose of marriage, has existed across many cultures of the world for untold thousands of years.
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In contemporary Greece, the arranged marriage, also know as “synikation,” or “proxenio,” is no longer widely practiced. The matchmaking term proxenio originates from the word proxy. ....

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