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We have finally decided where we will get the marriage blessing after a long journey of consideration, tears and heartbreaks. We are thankful for the warm welcome from the church and Romo.

Me and my fiance is coming from different religion background. I am prostestant and he is catholic. For the past few years, we have been to a protestant church and we will keep it that way.

We had been planning to have marriage blessing, a protestant way. But series of incident leads us to to different than planned. Now I learn to understand that God has His way, His time.

With 7 months left prior wedding day and considering the pressure from our vendors that September is a very hectic month for wedding, we need to decide quickly. We have finally decided to have it in Regina Caeli PIK despite that they only have 1 slot left which is at 2 PM.

So we met with Romo last Sunday to discuss on the requirements and booked the schedule. Eventually we met him together with 2 other couple. Prior our meeting, there were 2 other couples and when we finished the meeting, Romo still has another 2 couple. Eventually it is quite a favorite church for a marriage blessing. Lesson learned If you plan of getting married soon, ensure that you book church far in advance, the slot is easily filled up.

If you wanna have it protestant way, the preparation is even much earlier, as they have requirements on certain XX month of preparation class, XX month to join church prior eligible to get blessing. So prepare it well and in advance, it could be the 1st event you have to prepare, even more important that the venue :D

What I like about this church are:

1. Location - it is 5 minutes away from the bridal and 5 minutes away from my house. Beat that! =D
2. The look - the church itself has modern and bright ambiance
3. The people - I love the warm welcome
4. The procedure - Romo keep stressing that they wanna keep it simple and not to give additional burden for the couple as he knows how stressful it is to arrange a wedding
5. The cost - mostly everything is on voluntary basis

So, church has been booked! I heard that the decoration on D day cost will be shared amongst 4 other couple who will have the ceremony on Saturday and Sunday. Good to know that it will lessen the cost (except one of the couple want have an extravagant decoration - never happen for me haha).

I heard that most catholic church allow more than 1 couple to get the blessing at the same time, I am thrilled into that idea. I can't imagine having another couple walk the aisle, having a wedding vow and having the parent's blessing next to us. Scary! In RC, there's still possibility that it could be happening, but Romo has shared to us that it would be very unlikely.

They had it once to find out that the 2 couple has very different economic background. As the result, one of the couple and family who is "less", feels as if they are the minority. I couldn't agree more. it will be a nightmare if in a day where I imagined myself being the most beautiful bride, standing and knowing that there's another bride stand next to me wearing prettier dress, put on awesome-expensive make up, better wedding car, bla bla bla.