The World at Large: Wedding of the Year

This is a letter Paolo wrote for Den before the wedding.

Dear den,

I love you.

I love your passion for teaching

I love that you stroke my neck when I am driving

I love that you’re my one-woman support crew

I love that you correct my grammar error filled text messages

I love that you cook salmon for me or ask carol to cook the salmon for me

I love that you sing for me

I love that you’re smarter than me, heck half of the world’s smarter than me

I love that you have so much patience with ken, and not so with me haha

I love seeing how you care for ken

I love taking credit for the tricks that you taught maddy

I love your smile

I love your eyes

I love holding your hands

I love it when your hair is not that straight

I love the monthly letters and cards that you give me

I love the back rubs, ehem matagal ng wala ah!

I love it when you blame me when you accidentally fart, or is it really me?

I love the long drives with you

I love that you are clumsy, another reason to hold hands

I love that you don’t always close what you open

I love your doctor evil laugh

I love your crouching tiger hidden butiki moves

I love that your asthma, gives me a chance to take care of you

I love that you’re bad with parking, another excuse for me to drive for you

I love that you always fall asleep on long drives

I love that you can’t run

I love your allergies, lets me eat your portion haha

I love the yearly hospital trips, gives us time alone

I love it when you try to speak Chinese, you sound korean

I love beating you in scrabble (haha ako ang nagsusulat so ako ang bida)

I love the thought of growing old with you, but of course you’ll always be a year older

I love how brutally honest you are with me, next time preno naman haha

I love how you stripped me of my masks, next time sabay mo naman katawan

I love how you stand by me

I love how you fight for me

I love that you make me feel vulnerable *enter roxette singing vulnerable

I love that you cry, and use my shirt to wipe your tears and nose

I love that you’re holding on

I love how confident you are when you say that no one would love me as much as you do, makes me feel el guapo

I love everything that you are, and everything that you’re not.

I had the privilege of attending my host sister and friend's wedding last Thursday. It is refreshing to see a young couple so in love and so open about it. Their relationship is not the typical Filipino relationship that I see. It was quite the event. Picture pre-parties, a huge church, 5 priests, 2 bishops, custom designed dresses, imported food and drinks, a DJ, a wedding band, a videographer, 4 photographers, and most importantly, 2 people very in love surrounded by their family and friends.

Check out their wedding video http://vimeo.com/69733838 Mom, take note, I want these people for my wedding!