Almost everyone I know was shocked when they heard the news about me getting married, because to be honest all my friends never really thought that I'd settle down at all. But life is full of surprises.....and so am I hehe.
Patrick proposed to me last March 2020. The original plan was to have a big church wedding next year together with our family and friends. By April we started planning our wedding, booking suppliers and saving the date but unfortunately, we all know that a pandemic happened and Philippines and the whole world was put on lock down and strict quarantine. Big gatherings are not allowed and we don't know when will this end. The future right now is uncertain, so we decided to just focus on the present and do things that we can do at the moment.
June 2020 came and we decided to have an Intimate wedding celebration. We started talking to our original suppliers and asked them if we could just change the date to a later date next year. We asked the church if we can just reserve a slot but no final date yet and they said yes. Oh, thank goodness!
So, we proceed to the next step which is processing our legal documents. Birth certificates, Cenomar and Marriage License. We also ordered our wedding rings online. (I'll make a separate blog post regarding our suppliers if ever you guys are interested hehe.)
At first, we were planning to have our wedding on our anniversary which is August 12, but like I've said, things are uncertain now and there's some news roaming around that Metro Manila will be reverted to MECQ and we can't risk that chance again, so we decided to move it to an earlier date.
So, two weeks before the wedding date we booked another caterer and a reception area, booked a bouquet, bought clothes and ordered our shoes online.
JULY 14, 2020.
THE WEDDING DAY.
Around 10 in the morning, we went to Angono, City Hall for the ceremony and to have our marriage certificate signed. It was a short ceremony but super fun, there were jokes, laughs and a lot of nginig moments. Oh, and I also forgot Pat's full name for a second because my mind was wandering and I can't focus because I'm too nervous and kilig HAHAHAHAHA
We exchanged promised and rings. Kissed. Finally, signed our marriage contract. It's official, we are now MARRIED. I am now a MRS. Wow.
We used frixion pen, don't worry. HAHAHA joke.
After signing the papers, everyone clapped and we had our photos taken before heading out to the reception area.
And oh, we just removed our masks for photo ops, don't worry. We followed IATF protocols. And the municipality strictly followed social distancing and face masks guidelines, it's just that we had to take pictures.
Post Nup Photoshoot
For the post-nup pictures, we went to a private subdivision in Angono (Thunderbird), we looked for a good spot to take a picture and Sir Kean Tuazon from CATS Photography works his magic.
It was so hot that day, I was so hulas from laughing and walking around the place to get the shots but it was all WORTH IT. Sir Kean really did a great job in taking such wonderful pictures of me and Pat. We were so kulit but Kean was so patient HAHA and ride on our kakulitan, he instructed us what to do and how to pose but still gave us the freedom to do what we want haha. Thank you, Kean. :)
RECEPTION
After an hour of pictorial, we decided to go straight to our reception venue. It's actually a 10-min drive from where we had our post nup pictures taken. Our reception venue was held in Moderne Events Management, in front of The Transfiguration Church in Antipolo City. And For our Catering/Food we had the Madriaga's Catering.
At around 3PM the program ended and we (me and Patrick) went to our honeymoon. I'll tell you about our honeymoon place in my next blogpost. Hehe.
Overall, the Our wedding was one of the happiest day of my life. It may not be the first plan that we had but I'm sure that if God permit, next year we will have that big Church wedding that we originally plan, for now, I'm grateful that despite all the bad things that is happening we still get to celebrate our love and union with the people who love us dearly.
No one knows what the future holds for us, we don't know for sure what will happen in the next few months but I'm sure that it may not be easy but we will get through anything together. We will face challenges along the way but as long as we have each other, as long as we love and trust each other nothing can ever come between us.
A wedding is a beautiful celebration of love, it doesn't matter where or when, whether it's a big one or an intimate one, as long as you love each other and you are surrounded by the people you love, you are blessed enough.
