Nowadays, people would tend to be more of thinkers than feelers. The same can be said true of planning for the perfect wedding. The practical side of life tends to overshadow the hopeless romantic into submitting to a budget friendly, second-best, substandard wedding.

But living in a predominantly Catholic country where divorce is not an option, one can only get one shot into making your wedding, THE WEDDING. The choice for the photo and video supplier is one of the major decisions the couple will have to hurdle. Some of your guests’ memories may fail, but your photos will encase them in a time capsule to last a lifetime. And in this digital age, replication and data reproduction problems are a thing of the past.

In our case, we wanted somebody who can work wonders with the lens and still keep a certain “personal touch”. Nelwin Uy did just that. We booked him up after booking the church. Nine months later, we were ready for the pre nuptial location shoot. For 2 days we patiently conjured this magic we call love and trapped it in mpg format. And in the spirit of sharing this love, we were inspired by Nelwin to join a contest fit for soon-to-weds.

We joined the contest to give tribute to our photographer, as a sign of gratitude for enduring 4 full days with us. But as a bonus, we were also hoping to add a free accommodation for the honeymoon. Joining the VRC contest was not easy. We had to beat the first deadline set on the website by driving through bumper to bumper traffic and the “amazing race-type” feeling that we were unsure of the office’s location.

I have a very long name and I hated it when I was growing up. Why? Well, when I was in grade school by the time may classmates are ready for our quiz I'm still writing my third name... Yes, you read it right, 3rd name. My name's so long that I had to use the second line to write my full name. And just imagine the torture that I had when we were told to write our names 100 times(!) for being noisy. How I wished my name was Joy Lim or Ana Dy or any short name for that matter.

Now that I plan weddings, every now and then, I hear stories about couples having problems with their birth certificates because of wrong spellings or worst, they find out that all this time they're using their nicknames and not their real names. With this I realized that all those torturous years actually became a blessing. I worked long and hard to write my beautiful name and thank God I don't have to worry about any legal papers.

For those who are going through the process of having their birth certificates corrected, I'm happy to share with you a Primer for Republic Act 9048. Republic Act 9048 is an Act authorizing the Consul General to correct a typographical error or change of first name or nickname for that matter in the Civil Register without need for a Judicial Order.