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The Bride-To-Be That I Was (part 1)

In my blog, 'Three Months Before the Wedding' I said I will write about the experience of being a bride-to-be. So I am doing it now, after a year I got engaged! First in my list was 'Since May of this year'. Wow, that's a whole lot of detail to remember but let me share to you why that's in my list. May 9, 2016, on National Election Day, we got engaged. So May last year was a remarkable month for us. Now, how do we tell our family and friends? Most of you would say, uhm social media? No. Because we are not that type (nothing against couple who are), our first sort of a problem-solving was how are we going to inform people? And who goes first? Our parents live outside Metro Manila and we wanted to tell them the good news personally but when? So after setting schedules (which happened nearly a month after the proposal) we just have to hold telling other friends since it has to be family-first-information. Just imagine wanting to tell your close friends th...