A Filipino wedding is like no other. Bride and bridegroom must have six to eight pairs of godparents at least, and it doesn’t matter that more than half of the wedding guests are unknown to the couple, because they are from an older generation, their parents’. And why must the flower-bedecked bridal car be traditionally though queerly escorted by motorcycle cops?

In the Philippines, December (not June) is the marrying month. This December, according to the rumor mill, a bachelor presidential candidate will wed his lovely bride in a climactic followup to the well publicized proposal aired on TV and the subsequent formality of asking for her hand from her elders.

What not many people know is that another wedding is being planned for another presidential candidate. Joseph Estrada and his Loi will celebrate their golden wedding on Dec. 6. Whose wedding will be grander, more elegant, more “bonggacious"?

Everyone loves a wedding, and in the political season that’s heating up with more candidates coming out of the woodwork, the promise and vision of two, not one, weddings could only make things lovelier, more exciting.

A fan of Erap wants the other candidate’s wedding to happen first, apparently so her candidate will have a bigger dream wedding, if only for the sake of his rabid supporters. That way, the decorators, stylists and planners can indulge their taste for more frills and “win” the wedding contest.

With Erap no longer under “housewife arrest,” and with a movie with comedy queen Ai-Ai and star-in-the-making Aling Dionisia in the works, who’d dare think that the ex-President is not running for president again, no matter what? A golden wedding five months to election day is just what the p.r. ordered.

What, no presidentiable bride? Loren Legarda would've been the only eligible lady for a walk down the aisle, but just between us girls, she's not looking to getting hitched again anytime soon, and meanwhile her commitment is still to Mother Earth.

With NPC deciding to make her their VP bet instead, it seems the green advocate is the latest casualty of climate change.