• ‘I haven’t met a FilAm bridezilla’

  By Cristina DC Pastor A $40,000- to $80,000-wedding is not unusual for a Filipino bride in the U.S., just as a request to keep the mother out is quite common. “Funny,” said event planner Lyna Larcia-Calvario, who has organized hundreds of matrimonials for Filipino families in New York. Along with a reminder for her to […]

  Posted: June 15th, 2011 ˑ  No Comments
  Filled under: Culture, Lifestyle

• Hazel and Pete say ‘I do,’ read vows on their iPads

  By Cristina DC Pastor The bride and groom came in a yellow cab, the guests a red double-decker tourist bus. And that’s just one of the “very New York” highlights of the October 8 wedding of CBS 2 reporter Hazel Sanchez and AIG insurance executive Peter Rapciewicz. Everything else was a nice pastiche of Filipino […]

  Posted: November 1st, 2011 ˑ  1 Comment
  Filled under: Entertainment, Lifestyle