Love, actually

Published: February 20, 2008 | Author: Krystina Orozco
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EVERY Valentine has its own unique, happy ending. Mine had just happened over this past weekend crowing it queen of all fairy tales.It’s not only that sweet scent of red roses colorfully misting our noses; it is a certain feeling we encompass and fully embrace when we experience love. As of February 9, 2008, for newlyweds, Mario Milleza, Jr. and Gabrielle Gracia Milleza, cupid’s arrow strategically aimed for an inspirational and passionate kind of romance officially marking their wedding day as one as when a man truly dedicates his entire soul to his wife and her very own precious world to her husband.

My very own Kuya Junior, as we cousins call him, was armored in a white, neatly-pressed tuxedo as he stood heart open at the altar of San Francisco’s historically famous Mission Dolores Church, but as stunningly handsome as a suit can naturally make a man, his masculinity was easily compromised for the vulnerability he displayed as he wept tear after tear awaiting his beautiful bride to meet him.

A gown drizzled with glittered sequences with a cathedral trail following behind her made Gg, as her close friends call her, the apple of every eye as she slowly floated over the rose petal-covered carpet. As they kissed their way into a new life together, I could not help but reminisce over the sequence of events that led up to the sole reason why I can honestly call my Kuya and Gg my very own romantic role models.

Growing up literally on the same street their whole lives before the two had met was already a clear signal that fate was in their hands and that everything was meant to be. They say a couple’s first kiss would predict the tone of a relationship, and if it had to take a month for Kuya to gently kiss his princess, it certainly set a kind of love as being patient and respectable.

Sentimental gifts constantly marked their relationship as out of the ordinary. It was actually their first Valentine’s Day in which Gg from what I can vividly remember, had hand-picked a bunch of baby-colored ‘kiss me’ candy hearts and filled them in a jar to give to Kuya, or might I say, to slap a hint for him to make his move, but still, no clue could ever sway Kuya’s patience.
The Valentine’s Day after that, found Gg in a similar themed project with hearts, this time scattering more than 300 cut-out hearts all over their house trailing it to a swimming pool of even more hearts on the bed. As Kuya set foot surprised into their doorway, it was clear that no other woman could ever deeply mark what Gg had already done to his tender heart.

As would any girl falling victim to hopeless romanticism, a simple promise made amongst her girlfriends that 25 would mark the age of a time to marry, Gg let Kuya in on this little secret as a part of their simple, small everyday talk. Little did Gg realize that it was exactly on her 25th birthday that Kuya popped the big question as they set sail on a cruise through the islands.
Promises, from the very start of their relationship, was and would never ever meant to be broken; it just took her final ‘yes’ to seal the deal.

And so as we have a happy story passionately in the making, Valentine’s Day for anyone brings forth a love tale worth remembering, and as true to this day and age, these tales will certainly live on for the rest of our lives. As the priest concluded at the wedding ceremony, “We experience God in witnessing the true love of a happy couple!” A little late for Valentine, but ain’t true love eternal?