Compiled by SARAH PRIMICIAS
Bessie David, to marry Noel del Rosario
Jan 20, 2007
Although we will have a modern pink wedding, we have added Filipiniana touches to it.
ATTIRE: All the men in our entourage will wear piña suksok, including my groom, who will wear an Aureo Alonzo barong with callado design.
GIVEAWAYS: We will give away bayongs filled with Filipino delicacies like jumbo pastillas with intricately hand-made tails from Bulacan. The making of pastillas tails by hand is already a dying art, and a friend of mine, Santos, who incidentally also transferred his ancestral house in Navotas to Antipolo, wrote a book about it. Aside from the pastillas, we also filled the bayongs with pacencia cookies, but with a twist - the pacencia cookies are colored pink. We also included galletas de patatas in our loot bags. Most kids these days are not familiar with this type of biscuit anymore.
FOOD: Instead of Fiorgelato or Haagen Dazs, we will serve our guests Arce Dairy ice cream with traditional flavors like quezo, mantecado, and macapuno.
CAKE: We will use a cake topper with the bride wearing a baro’t saya and the groom wearing a barong.
PHOTO: We had our pre-nuptial shots taken on the Baywalk by Eddieboy Escudero. We were in Filipiniana attire and we had our pictures taken as we rode the kalesa.
Jonna Elayba,
married to Angelo Quilon
June 17, 2006
Since we decided to hold our wedding on the beach at Subic and since my gown designer is a friend from Lumban, Laguna who used piña cocoon for my dress, we opted to go for a modern Filipiniana beach wedding!
INVITATION: Our invitations were my very first DIY project, made out of sinamay paper with dried bouganvilla flowers and palay leaves and stalks. I did the layout myself and printed the invitations using a photo printer.
ATTIRE: My dress had a modern cut but the fabric used was piña cocoon (this included the train and purse). Everything was laced with traditional embroidery to match the fabric.
My husband, our parents, and our entourage all wore barongs made of piña and jusi.
FOOD: We held our reception at Gerry’s Grill because they have the best Filipino food in town.
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