[Project FeeTrail November 2014]: Last Sunday's Wedding Lingers

This month's Project Feet trail goes to the Transfiguration Chapel in Caleruega, Nasugbu, Batangas. This is my wedding florist sister's second wedding held here and it's my first time to set foot in this area.

As usual, we were "covering" event for www.aprillearaguas.com and I found myself listening to Fr. Allen's (from Caleruega) wedding sermon. To date, may I just say that, of all the wedding ceremonies I have covered, this, by far, is the most informative, educational, personalized, creative sermon that the officiating priest really did get to know the couple, shared to everyone at the church their love story, and was very funny and witty all at the same time. The sermon was long but his lecture was so worth it, I felt like whipping out a notebook and start taking down notes.

He spoke about investments, practicality, and all that ( I was already so close to tapping the shoulder of one of the guys from Nice Print Photography, our co-wedding suppliers, to ask for a copy of the video of the sermon clip alone, haha) and a lot more. But probably one of my biggest take away from the sermon was (non-verbatim):

"If you think, that on this wedding day, this officially ends all your heartache, you are wrong. It just means that you will experience all your heartaches all over again and a thousand times more. So you bettter think, (the bride) , think and decide while you can. This is your last chance. You can stand up and go to the reception since every thing is already paid anyway. I want you to imagine everything you went through. All the struggles, all the heartaches, failures and disappointments, and I guarantee you that you will endure that one thousand times more with the groom. Now, are you willing to endure that for (the groom)?"

Bride replied with a fierce "Yes Father!"

And of course, the little Carrie Bradshaw in me sneaked up behind my ear and whispered what Father Allen had said. I thought of everything I went through (You know of the feeling of going through hell and back, then brushing dust/ashes off your shoulder's after running through fire? That's what it felt like after reminiscing). I have not found someone who makes all those pain worth enduring for.

Special Guest: My mom who posed when she saw me taking a photo of the church from my phone. 

I tell you, I enjoyed the wedding ceremony. If the fifteen thousand cost of church is true and you get this priest, well it was so worth it. So worth it that I asked for the priest's name and have taken note of it. His sermon/ceremony was long and I learned a lot. I don't know the couple personally but felt how they were loved by everyone inside that church. More of that soon on www.aprillearaguas.com.