Family Drama

What's a wedding prep without any family drama?

We had our fair share of family drama during the early stage of our wedding planning. Yes, our love and determination was tested right away. Majority of it was from my family, oo, ako na sakit sa ulo. It all happened when we announced our wedding plan..

Yes we do have our family's blessing for us to get married na..BUT some circumstances will just happen to test you. On the last weekend of January we decided to finally announce it to our family, my family first. We told my mom first and she was happy about it, akala daw niya we were buying a property at Tagaytay kaya madalas kami pumunta dun. Then we called my father, he is a seaman, unfortunately that's when the bad news hit us. For the past few years my father was assigned in an Asian Cruise Ship, most of the time they are in Singapore, so as a backup plan Kim and I had prepared ourselves that we might shoulder my father's transpo to attend our wedding if his schedule won't be negotiated (naisip ko kasi he can request na ma-extend siya para sakto yun uwi niya for our wedding). Pero our backup plan wasn't enough pala, unfortunately their destination this year was changed, they'll be in America and Europe by mid this year until next, talk about malas. And according to my father, he cannot request to change his schedule since he is a regular employee (8months at sea then 2 months vacation). Sobrang hindi ko alam anong gagawin ko.. I'm so dissappointed in the turnout of our supposedly happy weddng announcement.

My father, due to his anger for the tendency that he won't be there in my wedding, is giving me no option but to move the wedding to another date, either June this year or next. Pero since matigas ang ulo ko and I've decided already that I'm getting married this year, moving the date is not an option for me, no matter what it takes we should get married on 12-21-13! (yan ang nasa isip ko nun)..andun yung "Ah basta" reasoning.

After that conversation, I think I've cried for the longest time for the last 9 or 10 years. Can't focus on my work well 'coz I am worried, I'm not fine. Pero sobrang laking tulong ng support ni Kim kaya I was able to recover, plus with the help of prayers.

Hon's simple message really moved me a lot:

"Haay... Tutuloy ntin to kahit tayong 2 lang... Mababaw pa to Hon, magsisimula pa lang tayo. Kakayanin natin lahat yan"

And yes we were able to get pass through that difficulty. We just need to compromise things and add on more prayers. We'll push through our plans, no changes.

I've learned that no matter what, as long as Kim will not give up on me, I won't loose hope and as long as we're together, everything will be alright.