WEDDING MONTH

December is one of the busiest month for couturiers, caterers, event coordinators and wedding planners. And this is especially true here in the country.

It simply is the month most couples choose to finally take the vow, to prove of their love for one another...to finally get married. I, for one, have this unfulfilled dream of saying "I do" in December. Maybe because this is the season when most relatives and friends are visible from their long time absence under their workloads. Maybe because the holidays is partly to blame for the pouring out of sentimentality of everyone. Or it could also be the unusually colder climate that makes people love cuddling more.

...and this is one reason why I love this month the most, being the romantic fool that I am (wink!) I find December as the Love Month other than the other months most believe it to be.

WHAT CAN YOU SAY ABOUT PRE-NUPTIAL AGREEMENT

This is something quite popular these days to marrying couples, and...

I wonder what
FILIPINO'S and NON-FILIPINO'S
say about this?!
(WHAT CAN YOU SAY ABOUT THIS?)

Are you among the practical people who believes that you have the right to decide how much of what you have worked for and saved for you will willingly give to your other half? Maybe you are just being careful believing that one can never tell the real score until you are years married and that it will not be a mere one or two years before you wholeheartedly trust this someone of all your possessions? That you are just aware of the fact that not only those women you read about who lost their everything to someone in a snap but you yourself can also be a victim of such injustice? Are you for this pre-nuptial agreement that is now being accepted by the society and deemed to be just a wise move?

Or are you against it believing that a pre-nuptial agreement is something used only by or cold , untrusting, and presumptuous individuals? That if you truly love your better halves you care less for the material things and that "what is mine is yours and what is yours is mine" counts for you? And that you know in your heart that your relationship have nothing in between yes or no before the vows, meaning the moment yo sworn to each other there will definitely be NO BACKING OUT?

WOULD YOU OR WOULD YOU NOT
HAVE PRE-NUPTIAL AGREEMENT?
(or maybe HAVE YOU or HAVE YOU NOT?)

AMIDST

MARRIAGE FOR CONVINIENCE…DOES IT WORK?

Filipino’s used to be traditionalists, old-fashioned to others. BUT come 20th century...it almost had been pure history. "Almost" because there are still a few who goes with what their families have passed on from generation to generation.

Still, I am not saying that this “marriage for convenience” is not old-fashioned; because even in the past decades, it has been going on. The “family arrangement” where parents have agreed upon another family friend of their offspring’s marriage that is to be held a decade or so after; or of a certain custom like that of the royalties centuries ago where in they cannot have the vows if not within the family or clan. Likewise, the Chinese custom which I believe to be practiced to this day though not everyone is another example of which.

TODAY, “marriage for convenience” includes political reason, or for financial stability. Some says it works and some doesn’t. There is this certain hold you have for each other due to common or interlacing goal. It can work but not necessarily fulfilling. Love may blossom, or the differences may eat up your individuality. It may continue on with easy friendship or romantic love; but it can also little by little rot your insides up, resort to violence, constant emotional attack or end up with separation. It is also common to see 2 different races bound together in a marriage. It is not easy needing to fill in the cultural gap in addition to common adjustments in a newly wed, and differently-raised individuals. Then again, life is full of surprises…either we end up smiling or crying.

What do you think?

HOW DO YOU WANT YOUR WEDDING DONE?

It is a year of fantasizing a wedding of my own after seeing that supposedly secret dream-come-true wedding of the year between a famous Filipino celebrity couple Judy Ann Santos and Ryan Agoncillo. They were hoping for it to be as private as possible and so decided for it to come out as a surprise to the general public if incase it will. It sure did but not until the wedding is about to take place. It even was televised hours after. Remarkable!

Them starting off at a church the bride’s parents wed decades ba

ck and ended with a beach reception obviously connotes well planning. Everything the couple is can be seen in their choices of invitation which is a box with one flipflop to which you will find the other half in the wedding reception itself; the guest singers that have made the ceremonies more memorable; the breakfast, the boat ride and the dinner. Every event in the whole day affair is as special as each other. It is the perfect wedding…simply because they were able to do what they both love.

Another famous couple chose a different way of doing their wedding. Well known anchor woman Korina Sanchez and Senator running for presidency Mar Roxas chose to do it in the simplest of weddings preferring only that it

be witnessed by every Filipino. It was aired except for the private reception that followed which includes close family and friends. They revealed that the supposed millions of peso cost of reception will be donated instead to calamity victims.

Weddings differ as each of us differs. Our preferences counts, but our status still is the main reason as to how it will turn out.

WEDDING BLISS

Is it the love month or what? Well…it’s such a nice feeling that I wouldn’t want to wait for any other day but today to be in love!

Just as I was this morning when I turned on the television and saw this I-cannot-recall-what-title movie that is actually almost over, but still had a heart warming effect on me. Though the wedding ceremony the characters partook near the end is not exactly my type, in a carnival setting, it’s the words that struck a cord. That though the ceremony is not perfect, what is important is that the couple was there loving each other and they had the courage to say “I do!”

Life is so full of surprises, you never know if your dream wedding will still be your dream wedding when that time finally comes. And it’s every woman’s fantasy to have one of her own. I do, too…after all I’m a woman!

And at a time like this, when I am a little more sappy than usual, I browse around for other people’s weddings. Sometime’s going through bridal gowns in the net or even in magazines. Look at get away destinations, bride bouquets, wedding cakes,… photos with differing preferences. I am fortunate to have friends in that line. One of which is Ronald who help couples in relieving their most important day by offering complete footage of the event, have memorable photos of the preparation…and everything else that would keep the love going as you view them over again in the years to come. Dhan-Ronald digital photography & videography will cater to all your prefered momentos of your MEMORY TO KEEP.

I wonder how I would like my wedding to be by that time…what do you like? Or what was your’s like? I’d love to hear your wedding this and that, share it with me?