Marriage License

Me and Bert applied for a Marriage License last Nov 15 and we had to sacrifice 1 of our precious vacation leaves to do this because of a seminar and a conselling that is required for the application. The whole application process takes a whole day and the day starts with an 800am counselling session.

It was my first time to visit Makati City Hall and I was surprised because it was the biggest City Hall I have ever seen in Metro Manila (and here I was thinking the Quezon City Hall was huge). There's not much of a crowd and the place is contrary to what I expected (you know, the front steps teeming with fixers and stuff, just like in DFA).

So anyway, it was a rainy thursday morning and we arrived at 730am. The guards wouldn't let us in because it was still too early (they said). By the time we gathered to the 3rd floor after paying the 100 pesos seminar fee,
there were 9 pairs all waiting for the counselling to begin. Due to heavy rains, the counselling started at 9am and we are lucky to have a counselor which used the conversation style of counselling. (Otherwise, I might have snored the whole counselling away....)

The counselling was an interesting affair, with the counsellor telling stories about his own life. It was interesting for the first hour but was rather boring on the last hour because he was so proud of his accomplishments and of his children that the counselling turned into a biopic.

We learned a few important things during the counselling and I was laughing so hard when his last word was "Huwag kayong mag-family planning!", with strong conviction. He was claiming we need to multiply some more because we Filipinos will dominate the world in the future.

Hahaha.