We may not be aware which "the wedding of the century" was this year, but we can certainly tell which was the Orthodox baptizing of the year: the one of Dylan Paul, the first child of former Olympic gymnasts Nadia Comaneci and Bart Conner.
The three-month old baby was christened in Los Angeles, California, were his godmother Anastasia Soare lives.
Once hailed as the first gymnast to ever score a ten in the Olympics Games, Nadia says now that her boy is her perfect ten, as she told to Australian Womenâs Weekly.
Dylan Paul was a baby both parents waited for a long while to have. The couple married ten years ago. With Nadia turning 45, and Bart 49, they were one step away from artificial insemination or adopting a baby, when the miracle happened, and Nadia got pregnant for the fist time.
She sure took her time. Teodora Ungureanu, one of Nadiaâs colleagues in the team competing in the Olympics has a 20-year old daughter, while Lavinia Milosovici, on the same team, became mother a few years ago.
Romanian Pro TV private television channel broadcast the event, with anchorwoman Andreea Esca on site.
Bart commented for the camera that his red car was "his baby" for a long while, but that "things have radically changed now."
Everybody was emotional, except Dylan Paul, who carried on his daily routine, untroubled by the fuss around him.
The ceremony took place Saturday, at 1 p.m., in the Orthodox Church in Los Angeles.
The party that followed took place at Anastasiaâs home in Beverly Hills. She hosted the ceremony along Paul Ziert, the manager of both Nadia and Bart.
Anastasia, or the "queen of Hollywood eyebrows", as she is called due to her profession as a beautician, hired a well-known DJ, a pianist and a violinist for the entertainment section, and a catering company for the food. On the menu were fish and la
