DescriptionThe Essex House Hotel in Newark, New Jersey was the scene of the wedding celebration of Constantine Pappas and Georgia Gavalas Pappas. Sitting at the table (r) Dena Gavalas (bride's mother), Athenagoras, Archbishop of North and South America at the time and later Patriarch in Constantinople, Father George Spyridakis, pastor of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church (site of the marriage ceremony) and George Gavalas (father of the bride), February 1940. Courtesy of George C. Pappas