A friend of mine, who happens to be a friend of this wedding’s groom, Michael, sent me a link to his wedding photos and didn’t even need to tell me, “you need to blog this wedding.” She knows me well — as soon as I saw these photos, I knew I had to feature it. It’s not just the fact that I am also Filipino — it was the fact that so many of the lovely details from both Mexican weddings and Filipino weddings were combined so flawlessly into this one event.
Photo by Stacy Kokes
In case you weren’t sure, the bride, Bianca, is Mexican and the groom, Michael, is Filipino. I don’t generally include photos of the bridal party or guests, preferring instead to focus on the wedding decorations and details. But in this case, the bride and groom and their entourage are wearing so many of the details, there was no getting around it. For example, the groom is wearing a traditional Filipino formal shirt, called a barong Tagalog. Barongs are worn instead of suits in the Philippines, because, well, suits are way too heavy to wearing the hot, humid climates of the Philippines.
Bianca is wearing a traditional Mexican wedding veil, called a mantilla, which stand out for their especially elaborate edges.
And here’s another interesting, kind of lovely, culture-blending incidental fact: both Filipino and Mexican wedding traditions are heavily influenced by Spanish culture, since Spain colonized both countries for several centuries.
These photos, by the way, were all shot by Stacy Kokes Photography.
