Cavaliers
A substantial break after their first-round playoff sweep of the Detroit Pistons has given Cavaliers players ample time to take care of the little chores and to-do list details that might have built up over time. You know, things like doing laundry, paying bills and getting married.
Cavaliers guard Sasha Pavlovic married longtime girlfriend Dunja Karisik on Monday in an intimate ceremony in Beachwood. Officiated by a judge, good friends Nikola Simic and Ivana Janicijevic served as "kumovi," a Serbian term for witnesses and honor attendants to the wedding. Simic and Janicijevic's 10-month-old daughter, Mia Simic, was the only other person in attendance. Although it was a simple, civil ceremony that lasted about an hour, the judge included wine and a candle to demonstrate a traditional Serbian wedding.
"The atmosphere was beautiful," Janicijevic said. "Nobody really cried, although we were all tearing a little. Overall it was an amazing experience."
Pavlovic, a 25-year-old shooting guard, had been waiting for a break during the playoffs to squeeze in the civil ceremony. Pavlovic and Karisik plan to have a church wedding in their native Serbia within the next year. The couple expect their first child, a boy, in August.
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