Wedding Guide

Wedding checklist is always necessary for you to keep track of your wedding most especially if you’re the one personally preparing for it. All the things should be accounted and should be carefully checked every now and then so not to miss something.

Before thinking of your wedding gown, process first the primary things that you need for your wedding. What are those? Your Authenticated Birth Certificate from NSO, make sure that you and your partner have it and if still you don’t have the authenticated one then request for it as early as possible. CENOMAR or the Certificate of No Marriage, with this there’s an expiration I think, so if ever you’re going to request for this make sure that it is still valid by the time your wedding comes. You can now file for your Marriage License if you have these two certifications but make sure as well that your wedding date won’t take more than a hundred and twenty days or else your License will expire. For those who need parental consent, other requirement may be needed so you need to comply for it as well.

Traditionally here in the Philippines in a wedding, the groom will shoulder for the expenses (sometimes the bride and groom shares for the expenses) but it doesn’t mean that the bride will just sit down and wait for everything to be done. Brides are usually the most stressed during the preparations because of lots of things to consider. And even if the groom pays for the expenses, the bride on the other hand budgets everything from the reception down to the smallest needs of the wedding. For those well-off families then this is not a problem with them but for those people like us then every centavo counts.

After filing for the License, come up of the things that you want for your wedding like, what theme you want for your wedding, the motif and the like. Make a list of the things that you need for your wedding like, wedding dress, grooms suit, bridesmaids and groomsmen dresses, the venue of your wedding, the reception, the invitations, giveaways, bridal car, photographer, videographer and so on. And if you think you have accomplished everything try to go over and have your beau check it so you’ll not going to missed out some other things

Also, don’t forget to make a list of the guests that you want to witness your most precious day. Invite only those people that who are just close to you and to your family, your relatives and friends. Go over each name so not to forget someone.

Wedding Updates

As part of our preparations for our upcoming wedding, I’ll be on leave by next week for five days so we could process the things that we need to comply in Davao. We both completed the certifications from our respective Locales and Districts so what we need to do now is to submit all the documents in Davao District Office so they could assign the Minister who would officiate our wedding.
Others would think what am I talking about? Well, wedding in our church is different from the traditional wedding of the Catholic Church or other religions and even if I explained it here you would still not understand so I think I need not to elaborate.

August 8, 2008 is the date of our wedding but we haven’t fixed yet the time of it since we don’t know yet the availability of the Officiating Minister but that would be for sure in the morning, and if it's possible my beau wants it to be around eight in the morning.

Sunday, 12:00 noon is our flight to Davao and we’ll stay their for a week. We still need to finalize the entourage, wedding motif, foods to serve, Church and other stuff. We’ll be back here by June 8 and I hope everything would be okay as we go back here in Manila.

We only have 2 more months to go and it seems that I still have lots of things to complete. I just hope that everything would turn out right as what I want the way my wedding would turn out to be.

CENOMAR, NSO, Marriage License and Birth Certificate

Every woman had always wanted to get married, well maybe that’s part of being a woman. My boyfriend and I had been lovers for four long years now. It started from a long distance relationship where there’s no assurance at all because of the distance. We are completely strangers to each other. But thanks to the technology that we have now, we’ve met unexpectedly. Distance wasn’t a hindrance at all.

Now, been busy preparing for our wedding. Since January this year we’ve already started planning for it. The date of our wedding would be this coming August 8, 2008. We’re both here in Manila but we’ll get married in my hometown, Davao City where my parents are currently residing.

Since we’re both on the right age, getting a marriage license is not that difficult for us. We don’t need parental consent anymore. By the way, before you could apply for a marriage license, you need to get first the CENOMAR or the Certificate of No Marriage, that’s one of the requirements now. CENOMAR can be requested through NSO but if you are both busy at work you can just easily request it online and they’ll just mail it to you in about a week. You’ll just need to pay some fees for the said certification the only thing is that it’s a little expensive than requesting it personally. You also need your Birth Certificate from NSO so you can request it as well online if you still don’t have it. For more information on how to get Certifications online, please refer to their website here.

Another requirement is to attend the Family Planning Seminar that is being scheduled and it depends on the municipal where you filed your license. Marriage license will be released after 10 days that is if you have attended the seminar. In our case, my bf is from Batangas and I’m from Davao. We filed our marriage license in Batangas but since the wedding will be in Davao, I used my address in Davao so we can use the license in Davao. We also attended the Family Planning Seminar that was scheduled every Thursday. It was Monday when we filed for our license so we go back Thursday to attend the seminar. The only thing that took us too long to complete all the requirements needed was the church requirements. We are both Iglesia Ni Cristo members and there are a lot of things that we need to comply. It was hard because our marriage would be in Davao but if it’s not going to be held there then there’s no additional work to be done.

Just today, we already completed the things that need to be done so we can schedule our flight now to Davao to submit to our church all the documents that we have for our wedding.

Quotes on Marriage

1. Marriage is not a word. It's a sentence (a life sentence).

2. Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore marriage is an institution for the blind.

3. Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her masters.

4. Marriage is a three-ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring and suffering.

5. Married life is full of excitement and frustration: In the first year of marriage, the man speaks and the woman listens. In the second year, the woman speaks and the man listens.In the third year, they both speak and the NEIGHBOUR listens.

6. Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends.You order what you want, and when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that instead.

7. There was this man who muttered a few words in the church and found himself married. A year later he muttered something in his sleep and found himself divorced.

8. A happy marriage is a matter of giving and taking; the husband gives and the wife takes.

9. Son: How much does it cost to get married, Dad? Father: I don't know son, I'm still paying for it.

10. Son: Is it true Dad? I heard that in ancient China, a man doesn't know his wife until he marries her. Father: That happens everywhere, son, EVERYWHERE!

11. Love is one long sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock.

12. They say that when a man holds a woman's hand before marriage, it is love; after marriage it is self-defense.

13. When a newly married man looks happy, we know why. But when a 10-year married man looks happy, we wonder why.

14. There was this lover who said that he would go through hell for her. They got married, and now he is going through HELL.


16. When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

17. Eighty percent of married men cheat in America, the rest cheat in Europe.

18. After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin. They just can't face each other, but they still stay together.

19. Marriage is man and a woman become one. The trouble starts when they try to decide which one.

20. Before marriage, a man yearns for the woman he loves. After the marriage the "Y" becomes silent.

21. I married Miss right; I just didn't know her first name was Always.

22. It's not true that married men live longer than single men, it only seems longer.

23. Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible.

24. A man was complaining to a friend: I HAD IT ALL-MONEY, A BEAUTIFUL HOUSE, THE LOVE OF A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, THEN POW! IT WAS ALL GONE. WHAT HAPPENED, asked his friend. He says MY WIFE FOUND OUT.

25. WIFE: Let's go out and have some fun tonight. HUSBAND: OK, but if you get home before I do, leave the hallway
lighs on.

26. At a cocktail party, one woman said to another: AREN'T YOU WEARING YOUR RING ON THE WRONG FINGER? The other replied, YES, I, AM. I MARRIED THE WRONG MAN.

27. Man is incomplete until he gets married, then he is finished.

28. It doesn't matter how often a married man changes his job, he still ends up with the same boss.

29. A man inserted an ad in the paper - WIFE WANTED. The next day he received a hundred of letters and they all said the same thing - YOU CAN HAVE MINE.

My Desired Wedding

Hi guys! Welcome to my new blog!! I named it "My Desired Wedding". I've been posting some details on my up coming wedding to my other blog so I've decided to create one that would solely discuss my wedding updates, some wedding guides and other matters about weddings.

On my other blog, I have posted there my up coming wedding but I didn't specifically stated when would it be happening. So here, I'll be posting more about it more specific as needed. Just hang on and join me on my journey!!!

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