only in the movies

Much more than the John Lloyd-Shaina (utterly) humiliating scandal or the wonders of ephedrine diet pills, I am much amazed and much much more surprised with the marriage between Robin Padilla and Mariel Rodriguez. According to a GMA News report:

Mariel Rodriguez and Robin Padilla married each other twice in Baguio City last Monday. The first ceremony was conducted by an Ibaloi native priest while the second one was officiated by a pastor.

According to a report of TV Patrol aired earlier Thrusday, September 16, a native priest named Jimmy Ong officiated the Ibaloi ceremony that lasted for one and a half hours. Also known as a mambunong, Ong said that the ceremony took place at around 3 p.m. at Camp 7 in Baguio City.

Mariel wore woven ethnic clothing while Robin wore a bahag during the native ceremony. Robin’s youngest son Ali was present to witness the event.

The TV host-action star opted to marry Mariel in an Ibaloi ceremony because his mother, Eva Cariño-Padilla, is an Igorot. As part of the ceremony, Robin and Mariel drank tapuy (rice wine) as a symbol of their love and performed the tayaw dance to show that they are bound to each other by marriage. A pig was butchered and the blood was smeared on the faces of the celebrity couple.

After the Ibaloi ceremony, Robin and Mariel were married again in a ceremony officiated by a pastor.

Well, well, what do you know, I thought these things happen only in the movies. Some say Mariel’s lucky, some say she’s dead. Generally, though, the opinions, good or bad, are rooted from Robin’s personality, a very strong one at that. Me? I still do not know what to make of it. I am quite surprised, but I sure see the twinkle in that lady’s eyes…

  
…and I hope it’s more like a fairy-tale story for them.