What happened…
…ok, so here’s what happened…
The morning started very
calmly. Eerily enough, I was asleep by 9 pm the night before, so I was
able to get a full night’s rest, thank goodness. My make up artist from
Pranav Salon (in Robinson’s Galleria) came and did wonders for me and my mom. (Aside:
Really, if you’re looking for a place to do your make up with full on
service, go to Pranav and look for Louie, the girl who did my make up.
A. MA. ZING. Special thanks to my best friend Sara who sponsored the
whole thing!)
We got married in a chapel in Marikina with
just our families, our maid of honor, and our best man. Since no one
else was there, they were surrounding us during the entire marriage
rite which lasted about 12 minutes. It was one of the most intimate and
special moments in our lives - to have the people we love the most
really - and I mean really - share this most important event in our lives with us.
After
that, we went to the Ateneo High School for our Thanksgiving Mass. We
had about 70 guests - all of them our most intimate friends. I walked
down the aisle with my parents by my side to the tune of I Must’ve Done Something Good from The Sound of Music, arranged by my best friend, GP Eleria.
The
Mass itself was wonderful, full of happy tears - as the guests will
tell you. We were just so overwhelmed with everything happening that we
couldn’t stop crying! The Ateneo Chamber Singers sang for us, and so did my friend Leslie Perez, my dad, and my brother. 
We
then moved to the Seniors’ Quadrangle, also at the High School, just a
step, hop, skip away from the Chapel, for the reception. The food was
EXCELLENT. Our caterer, Kaye Cunanan,
served the most wonderful food. People were still talking about it
weeks after the wedding. Really, if you have a wedding, a debut, a
bar/bat mitzvah, heck, whatever coming up, you would really want to
consider having it catered by her.
After the rather funny cake
cutting ceremony, (we were cutting the fake-cake part…we didn’t know
that there were parts that wasn’t cake. I mean, we hadn’t done that
sort of thing before…) we had our first dance. We danced to Break On Through by The Doors,
to everyone’s delight. (Yes, it was choreographed. Yes, I choreographed
it. Yes, Chaddy really does love me that much to have done such a
thing…)
And then the rest of the night, everyone basically
just had fun. We were able to meet our guests and talk to them without
having a photographer follow us around and tell us to act properly. Nono Felipe and Carlo Santos,
two very dear friends of mine, took wonderful pictures. They were so
paparazzi-like in their unobtrusive ways, all of the pictures looked
alive and candid and real.
And so that’s how the happiest day of my life went.
Thank you to everyone who made it possible. We will never forget that.
