Well, Che and I have arrived safely in Manila, met her wonderful family (about half so far), subsmitted documents to the Canadian Embassy and Municipality Office and are now enjoying our time here as we await the wedding date.
Because we are not required to attend a seminar on “family planning” or “pre-wedding counseling”, we don’t have to wait as long to get married. But then again, we can’t get married too early as Mark (and Jennifer as well, we hope!) can only be here during a certain window of opportunity. With all these factors in play, we have moved our wedding date back one day and are now getting married on JANUARY the 22nd.
We have also changed the venue as the owner was being unreasonable about quite a few points and there was a MUCH lovelier wedding location just across the street. It’s a gorgeous location and hopefully we’ll be able to put some photos up later of the whole wedding, God willing!!!
Everyone is really looking forward to seeing Mark (and Jennifer?) very soon. 
If I get a chance later, I just might start an “Andy-in-the-Philippines website” soon.
