I’ve just received pictures of my cousin’s wedding held last December in New Jersey, USA. We had received the wedding invitation here but ’til now, the entire family were still shocked because of my cousin’s gender and decision. Actually, my cousin hesitated to let us here know of the wedding. Here in the Philippines, same sex marriage is impossible.

Philippines does not offer any legal recognition to same-sex marriage, civil unions or domestic partnership benefits, although there is increasingly heavy debate on them.

In 1998, Senators Marcelo B. Fernan and Miriam Defensor Santiago submitted a series of four bills that barred recognition of marriage involving transgender individuals, contracted in the Philippines or abroad, and bar recognition of marriages or domestic partnership between two people of the same biological sex contracted in countries that legally recognize such relationships.

As of 2006, three anti-same sex marriage bills have been introduced and are pending before the Senate and Congress. -taken from here

The entourage… I don’t know if the women should be called “brides maids”, they still have their bouquet as well as the “flower girl” but they wore black skinny pants, hair were tied and wore wigs as their “head dress”. They were on the right side of the wedding picture above. The groom and the groom were on the center of the picture. They were both pinoys, born and raised in USA.

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