Congrats and best wishes to the Manicads!

Highlight reel: With Ate Vi! Grabe, star-struck ako. Haha

Marns is now Mrs. Manicad!

The engagement lasted two long years, but I suppose it took that long to plan the flawlessly executed wedding! Videos were aired, speeches were given, all like clockwork. The theme was also really solid--coffee and Choc-Nut. At the entrance, people looked for their tables and found their names printed on Choc-Nut with custom-made wrappers indicating their table number! And the giveaways? Divine-smelling Choc-Nut body scrub. Smelled good enough to eat, I swear. (On the lid, a warning: "Do not eat"! Haha.)

More than the hoopla and the fanfare, the best thing about the occasion was experiencing yet another milestone with my girls (and my man!). We've been through grade school and high school together, boyfriends and breakups, college and first jobs, and even a couple of kids. It has been years, and the more time passes, the more I realize just how important these fabulous women are to me, and how cool it is that we're so involved in each other's lives--even if we don't see each other that often. Now that's girl power.

(On a related note, we also had a Spice Girls reunion! Too bad they didn't play any Spice Girls songs, so we just contented ourselves with posing as our alter egos.)

Cheers to Marnie and Jiggy!