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Philippine Couple Married in Hip-Deep Floodwaters

Couple proceeds with wedding in waist-deep floodwaters despite parish advice, as 5,835 leptospirosis cases are recorded nationwide this year, health officials said.

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Clutching a bouquet of white blooms and clad in an off-shoulder white gown, Leian Lieza Galang gingerly waded into the murky brown floodwaters inside the Saint John the Baptist church in Hagonoy town, north of Manila, to wed Gilbert Chico. "We were in complete uniform. We did not mind that our gown and coat got soaked," the groom told AFP. The parish priest declared the couple, both in their 30s, husband and wife at an abbreviated late-morning c…

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MANILA: A couple in the Philippines got married on Tuesday in a Catholic church that was nearly waist-deep in water as heavy rains lashed much of the country for the past month. Holding a bouquet of white flowers and wearing a white off-the-shoulder gown, Leian Lieza Galang carefully waded through the murky brown floodwaters ... The post Bride gets married amid waist-deep floods appeared first on Utusan Malaysia.

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Philstar Global broke the news in Taguig, Philippines (the) on Tuesday, September 1, 2026.
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