I was happy reading his email with the promise that he would propose to me on our first face to face meeting. At the same time I also felt nervous because of my previous relationship with a guy who I had also met online. I learned a lesson from my past relationship and was a little bit worried that it might be deja vu all over again. I held his promise in my heart. This time I was more cautious and got myself ready for broken promises to come.
When he finally asked my hand from my father (on the phone), that was when my heart bursts into tears of joy. I couldn’t believe that I would be getting married soon. Basically, our plans were to get married in the Philippines, but because of visa processing complications, we decided to have the family wedding vows there in the Philippines and the legal wedding would be here in the US.
At first we had set our wedding for the 8th of April, 2005. Later we had to move it back to the 22nd because of some complications with his engineering project. Two weeks before the 8th he came to the conclusion that he would not be able to finish the things he needed to get done before the trip. Fortunately I had not sent out the wedding invitations yet so this turned out not to be a big deal. His original plan was to arrive there two days before the wedding but upon rescheduling that had to be reduce to one day. He had planned to be there in the Philippines in order to propose during a romantic candle light dinner.