Our simple wedding ceremony here in France

One day, my husband, me, and our firstborn went to the city hall to submit our documents for our wedding. I was 37 weeks pregnant with my second child. My tummy was heavy while going to the city hall. After the submission of the documents, we went to the hair salon to cut my hair as I wanted my hair short. The next day, I was in the hospital and a baby girl was born. It seems like she was very excited about the wedding of her parents.

My husband and I got married after a month and a few weeks Elise was born.

Wedding photo from Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/p/CSc8_uHDdVS/

So how did we prepare for our simple wedding?

I need to process some documents from Cebu so I asked for help from my sister. My PSA birth certificate and CENOMAR were sent to our home address in Cebu. I forgot how much I paid. My sister went to DFA Cebu to have my documents Apostilled and paid a fee. The documents needed to be sent to France and paid by a courier. I received my documents in just 3 days. It was less than 5k PHP.

When I received the documents, they needed to be translated to French so my husband paid a fee. I think about 100 euros.

My white dress costs $50

I found this white maternity dress in an online shop. I bought it because of the easy access to the boobs when the baby needs milk. It was a comfy dress.

I did my make up

I am not good with make-up so I don't have real makeup kits and accessories. All I have are lipsticks, face powder, and bb cream concealer. In the photos, it was obvious that I never took care of my facial skin that the blemishes were visible.

We have our instant ring bearer and a flower girl

My kids but...

We don't have wedding rings and a bouquet of flowers

Yes, you read it right. We don't have wedding rings and flowers. We never spent money on that.

But we were holding our kids in our arms. Fred was carrying Alexandre and I was carrying Elise.

Only a few witnesses

Our only witnesses are the parents of my husband, the sister of my husband, and the brother-in-law. Just four witnesses. I don't have any family around from the Philippines. Since it was a pandemic time, there were no people in the city hall. Just the mayor. The wedding ceremony only took 20 minutes.

We don't have official wedding photos

I am actually a wedding photographer and I felt sad that we don't have official wedding photos. The husband of my sister-in-law took photos of us but I can't demand him to take several photos of us. We were in a hurry and we have kids. I really know how to direct the wedding poses of couples. I have so many ideas about where to take cool photos in the area where we had our wedding ceremony. Like we should have cool street photos or in the cafe. Any dramatic photos.

We celebrated by drinking wines, eating good food, and singing karaoke

We actually had good food. Fred ordered plates of seafood worth 100 euros. We had steak and french fries. We always have a good meal at home and share it with close family. I sing in karaoke. It was fun. My sister-in-law also sang some French songs.

I sang a French song as well, La Vie En Rose, the Grace Jones version.