Philippine couple marry in hip-deep floodwaters
- On Tuesday, September 1, 2026, Leian Lieza Galang and Gilbert Chico married at Saint John the Baptist Parish in Hagonoy, Bulacan, wading through waist-deep floodwaters to reach the altar.
- The parish advised the couple to postpone their wedding due to persistent flooding from heavy monsoon rains, but they decided to proceed for personal reasons.
- To navigate the "water aisle," the bride altered her gown to shorten the train, wedding photographer Mikko Rey Alfonso said, while the church used portable speakers for fewer than 15 guests.
- While social media users offered congratulations, others expressed concern regarding leptospirosis, which the Department of Health noted has caused 23 deaths this year amid widespread flooding.
- Hagonoy serves as a "catch basin" for floodwaters, according to Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office Chief Richard Jerome Crisostomo, part of broader monsoon conditions that killed 34 people across the Philippines in August.
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In the Philippines, hit by severe flooding, a couple chose to celebrate their wedding on Tuesday in a flooded church.
A bride in the Philippines refused to let floodwaters get in the way of her wedding and got married inside a flooded Catholic church. Leian Lieza Galang was forced to wade through waist-deep brown water, wearing her white wedding dress, into the St. John the Baptist Church in Hagonoy on Tuesday. In a video of the ceremony, the bride holds a bouquet of white flowers and carefully walks through the murky brown water. The church pews were empty, de…
They were advised to wait. They didn't wait.
Philippine couple wed in floodwater
A Philippine couple on Tuesday tied the knot at a Catholic church swamped in hip-deep waters, as heavy rains have pummelled large parts of the country for a month.Clutching a bouquet of white blooms and clad in an off-shoulder white gown, Leian Lieza Galang gingerly waded into the murky brown floodw
The church was flooded and the officials asked for the wedding to be postponed, with the couple disagreeing and insisting on formalizing their union, even in the water. The post Determined to Get Married: Couple Exchanges Vows in a Flooded Church – The Water Reached Waist High appeared first on in.gr.
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