FEBRUARY 2014 ARTICLE 1

MDS NEWSLETTER
Date Issued: February 2014

49 COUPLES VOWED "I DO'S" ON 

THE KASALANG BAYAN 2014

“Pangangaral” from Mayor Melan De Sagun about married life.

          Forty-nine couples were bound by a civil wedding ceremony officiated by Hon. Melandres De Sagun through the effort of Local Civil Registrar and the City Mayor’s Office of Trece Martires City last February 28, 2014 at the Trece Martires City Hall.

       Red is the motif of the said Kasalang Bayan as it symbolizes passionate love and romance which happen to match February: the month of romance. The Local Civil Registrar’s Office gathered all 49 couples through their coordination with each barangay as well as the announcement they made during the flag raising ceremony. The said event also followed the typical reception ceremony: from ceremonial cake cutting, wine toasting, garter retrieval, and dove releasing.The oldest couple enlisted who were David R. Carullo, aged 59 and Teresita Escarillo, aged 61 made the ceremonial cake cutting. The youngest couple, Joeymar Alfaro and Liezel Villanueva, both aged 20 performed the garter ceremony. Mr. And Mrs. Buison, one of the 49 newly-wedded couple, had expressed their utmost gratitude to the city administrators for making the Kasalang Bayan possible, thus, making all of them lawfully married individuals.

       All fees for document processing were free of charge and each couple were given a souviner cake and souviner photographs with Mayor Melan. Globe Telecom had provided photobooth for all couples and their enctourage.

       Mayor Melan De Sagun had also gave an inspirational message to the newly wedded couples about the struggles of married life, for the parents to be a good provider and to promise each other “forever” and mean it.