The Wedding Team Review: The Church

Ratings:
       5 stars - Excellnet
       4 stars - Very Good
       3 stars - Average
       2 stars - Sloppy Service
       1 star - Poor Service

Months, or even years before the wedding day, the bride and groom are busy choosing their wedding team. For tips on how to choose wisely, you can check out my friend Viviene's blog http://www.theblogforbrides.com/1/post/2011/01/7-donts-in-your-wedding-planning.html.

  St. Peregrine Laziosi Parish
 We chose St. Peregrine because of its location, ambiance, and my personal requirement, the aisle.

Thumbs up: If one intends to marry in a big church, this may be the ideal church for you. With its high ceiling and wide pews, one will be amazed with its simplicity despite the size. The church is also very serene and cool. Despite being located along the national road of Tunasan, Muntinlupa, inside the church compound you won't feel the busy street just across it. The price is also reasonable. The church charges P15,000 which is already inclusive of the flowers, seminar costs, candles, red carpet, choir, priest and readers (if you don't intend to assign any). The church also has a several choirs to choose from. Luckily for us, my friend Alpert is a member of Epheso choir. All the songs that we requested were played! But for those who doesn't know anyone from the choir, I suggest that you ask the schedule of the choir assigned to you so you can listen to them live and get the know the members as well. 

Thumbs down: The church is not air-conditioned. But the church provides electric fans during the wedding, plus there are several doors and windows at the side of the church which they open during a wedding to allow the air to come in. The flowers that are included in the package is not plenty enough. You may opt to upgrade the flowers just like what we did, at an additional cost, and you must personally get in touch with their supplier.  

The required seminar is for 3 consecutive sundays for two hours each. I personally think that this is inconvenient and at the same time not enough if one intends to prepare the couples for married life. I would not mind if it is for one whole day or even two days. The seminar is also quite dragging since for two hours, the couples are required to just listen to the facilitators. At 2pm on a Sunday, that is not easy. By the 1st hour of the seminar, our attention has already drifted.

Overall Rating: 4 stars
We are happy with our decision to get married in St. Peregrine and if asked, we will definitely recommend it to other couples as well.
Contact details: National Road, Tunasan Muntinlupa City 842-2424