I had a very pleasant 3 weeks in the Philippines to meet and marry my then girlfriend, my wife now. I left Vancouver at 1:15AM on May 7th bound for Cebu city via Manila. I spent 3 hours or so in Manila waiting for my connecting flight to Cebu. When you fly to Cebu City. You enter through Mactan Island in Lapu-Lapu city which is part of the Metro Cebu area.
My intention was to meet my girlfriend Eva, get the the legal capacity to marry from the Canadian Consulate and see her friends she works with, then travel the next day to Surigao city. We got to the the ferry 4 hours earlier cause that is what they say to do on the tickets I bought. We ended up waiting till 5:30 for our ferry to leave.Waiting in the ferry terminal was quite the experience with people waiting with packaged roosters in a cardboard box calling out in the the ferry terminals waiting room. I found it funny to hear roosters calling in ferry terminal. It is so different from what we in North America are used too seeing. Surigao city is a 7 hour ferry ride from Cebu city. So we got off the ferry at 12:30 in the morning. Luckily we napped a bit in the state room for that trip. Buying a stateroom to stay in was rather cheap online. I think it was 1750p for 2 people. Here is the link from where I bought our tickets from Travel2Go
Later that day we woke up and did the first day of running around to get the paperwork done for our marriage license.
Marriage Documents You Need In Surigao City Are:
Now once you get all your documents. You can find a judge or mayor to marry you. If you find a judge, you need money for a raffle and be flexible on your dates you can get married. In my case I wasn't flexible as I had gotten a date at the Tavern Hotel. One of the nicest hotels in Surigao that I could see. It cost me about 30,000p for the marriage package at the hotel.
Additional costs for my wedding were:
2000p to help some short changed relatives get back home.
6400p for a roasted whole pig aka Lechon.
3500p for Wedding Cake.
5000p for a minivan and driver.
4400p for extra night at the Tavern and food for relatives.
2000p for the payment to the Mayor.
6500p for wedding garments( dresses, gowns, barangs etc. for wedding party)
2000p for wedding favors to hand out to guests.
Total: 31,800p for the extras
Tavern Hotel Package is 30,000p
Grand Total Price:61,800p equals approximately $1466.98CAD as of the date of the post.
My intention was to meet my girlfriend Eva, get the the legal capacity to marry from the Canadian Consulate and see her friends she works with, then travel the next day to Surigao city. We got to the the ferry 4 hours earlier cause that is what they say to do on the tickets I bought. We ended up waiting till 5:30 for our ferry to leave.Waiting in the ferry terminal was quite the experience with people waiting with packaged roosters in a cardboard box calling out in the the ferry terminals waiting room. I found it funny to hear roosters calling in ferry terminal. It is so different from what we in North America are used too seeing. Surigao city is a 7 hour ferry ride from Cebu city. So we got off the ferry at 12:30 in the morning. Luckily we napped a bit in the state room for that trip. Buying a stateroom to stay in was rather cheap online. I think it was 1750p for 2 people. Here is the link from where I bought our tickets from Travel2Go
Later that day we woke up and did the first day of running around to get the paperwork done for our marriage license.
- Legal Capacity To Marry from the Canadian Embassy or Consulate.
- Certificate of No Marriage or CENOMAR for short from the National Statistics Office (My girlfriend and I debated this one cause she said her friend said I needed it and her cousin agreed, so I went along and got it. I've read you don't need it and most most of my friends didn't get it when they were married in Philippines. So this one is up to you.)
- Marriage License- Now once you get your CENOMAR and Legal Capicity, you can go get your marriage license. This you have to wait 11 days for, I was told to take in account weekends, holidays and fiestas when applying which will make this time longer.
Now once you get all your documents. You can find a judge or mayor to marry you. If you find a judge, you need money for a raffle and be flexible on your dates you can get married. In my case I wasn't flexible as I had gotten a date at the Tavern Hotel. One of the nicest hotels in Surigao that I could see. It cost me about 30,000p for the marriage package at the hotel.
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| Yes Folks! I got married in San Francisco. |
Additional costs for my wedding were:
2000p to help some short changed relatives get back home.
6400p for a roasted whole pig aka Lechon.
3500p for Wedding Cake.
5000p for a minivan and driver.
4400p for extra night at the Tavern and food for relatives.
2000p for the payment to the Mayor.
6500p for wedding garments( dresses, gowns, barangs etc. for wedding party)
2000p for wedding favors to hand out to guests.
Total: 31,800p for the extras
Tavern Hotel Package is 30,000p
Grand Total Price:61,800p equals approximately $1466.98CAD as of the date of the post.
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