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Offline Martin

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Cost of getting married in the Philippines
« on: May 13, 2014, 06:09:27 pm »
This is a breakdown of my wedding costs. Most of the prices are in Philippine Peso (PHP).

First thing was the CENOMAR. We can't remember the cost of that, but it was around 1000 PHP for me (the foreigner) and around 800 for her.

Certificate of Legal Capacity, from the Canadian Embassy in Makati City (Manilla)-$50 CDN.

Pre Marriage Counseling at City Hall-1765 PHP

Pre Cana Counseling at the Catholic Church-800 PHP

Marriage Certificate Processing-1800 PHP

Marriage License- 2 PHP (you read that correctly..two)

Catholic Church fee- 10 000 PHP

Wedding Package (covered clothes, flowers, photographer, video, reception hall, food, hotel room)- 70 000 PHP

Wedding dress upgrade (the ones in the package weren't quite as nice), Bigger Barong (bigger cost extra from the pre-paid package), and a few other misc changes of clothes -6800 PHP

Giveaways - 900 PHP

Pictures for giveaways - 160 PHP

Invitations - 2100 PHP

Extras for the party afterwards at our house (lechon, beer, pop), as well as lechon (bbq pig) at our reception and live music at the reception - 25 000 PHP

Total cost -121127 PHP and $50 cdn. or roughly $3080 cdn

For everything else, there's MasterCard

« Last Edit: May 13, 2014, 06:12:06 pm by Martin »

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Re: Cost of getting married in the Philippines
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2014, 08:28:49 pm »
Marriage License- 2 PHP (you read that correctly..two)

And are you not going to haggle that down to 1.5 or even 1? ;D ;D ;D

I do like the way this forum is expanding its horizons.

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