Mourners gatecrash wedding of Fil-am groom, Ilongga bride
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
Once again, Shakespeare was proven right when a jilted lover scored big in causing a major disturbance and scandal in Saturday's wedding of a reported ex-boyfriend.
The incident occurred about 10 am at St. Clement's Church in Lapaz, Iloilo City with the police alerted about an hour after.
The groom, a returning balikbayan was a Filipino-American described to be in his 30s while the bride was an Ilongga. Drama began minutes before the bride was to make her entrance and last stretch of arrivals of the guests when the wedding coordinator noticed a group of about 50 people, dressed in black outfits and seated themselves inside the Church. When asked, one said they are there for the funeral. Problem was, there was no funeral but a fairytale wedding planned for the couple.
Officer Decripito of the Lapaz Police Office told The News Today (TNT) that the "mourners" were asked to leave Church premises in what the bride's aunt said was one scene that caused the family "fear and nervousness."
Fr. Patrick Sogro proceeded to celebrate the mass yet even before the final blessing with some 200 guests present, two unidentified female made a grand entrance through the Church's main door and threw "plenty" of salt on top of the bridal car.
The groom was also cursed by one of the female as both then exited in anger and fled on board a White Honda Civic car.
Witnesses said the jilted lover is a regional director of one government agency here.
A news team from nearby TV station, ABS-CBN was able to get footages of the scene with the couple, newlyweds then granting an interview. Sources said the duo were seen crying in their reception with the bride's message to her new husband's ex, "mangita sang lalake nga maluyag sa iya (search for a man who will fall in love with her).
Saturday's incident was not the first of its kind in Iloilo albeit appearing to be the most dramatic and well-planned and well-orchestrated.
Years back a groom also spent his first hours as a married man inside the jail as authorities came to serve his arrest warrant after the wedding vows. The bride, true to her vows of "for better or worse," accompanied her husband to the police station in her wedding gown.
In Lambunao, one wedding also was dramatic when an ex-girlfriend showed up and went straight to the Parish Priest introducing herself as the ex-lover and the boy with her as her lovechild with the man about to get married.
Legally, there still is no Canonical impediment reason why the wedding proceeded as well.