Pamamanhikan Dinner

Even we are in a long relationship, our families doesn’t meet formally yet until that day. They only knew each other through our stories and just some basic information. Hal is like a family in our house already and me to them but our parents haven’t meet personally yet. My parents don’t like to go out and his mom is in London most of the time and spent maybe 1-2 months here yearly. So as soon as were engaged, we planned an early pamamanhikan. We scheduled it last summer vacation because my Kuya’s family that was already residing in Bulacan will be staying for a few days in our house for a visit and Hal’s mom was here for a vacation. I wish Kuya was present but he’s in UAE but I’m still glad that my sister-in-law and my niece were there. Tatay was always in the province so I informed him in advance. They brought some food and my nanay cooked some too.

The dinner went well since both parties are ready and aware that we're already on the right age to get married. Some questions on our plans were brought up but they let us all do the planning since they know we can handle it well. What was funny that night was it looked like Hal’s mom is doing talk and was asking permission for the marriage.

After the first meet, we treated my Nanay and my soon to be mother-in-law for a relaxing bonding time at Ace Water Spa with Hal’s brother and his family. Unfortunately my Tatay doesn’t want to join because it’s really not his thing. 

With Damon and Sansa too!