Wedding Proposal Through A Video Game

How can anybody propose through a videogame? Gary Hudston tell all of us how.

Gary proposed to his girlfriend Stephanie on her 21^st birthday through a Portal 2 video game, a medium he relied on to express his feelings.

What made his in-game wedding proposal unique is that he reached out to the modding community and was even able to get the support of Portal 2 creators,  Valva Software. The wedding proposal was voiced over by none other than the game's lovable villain, GlaDOS'.

Stephanie already had an inkling that his birthday gift would be extra special, she just didn’t realize the lengths Gary would go through to make it one. After opening her birthday present, she played the game just as Gary requested. By the time GLaDOS was asking Stephanie the question, she was in tears. And who wouldn’t be, when after hearing the voiced over proposal, the man beside you is down on his knee with a ring?

Tagged as one of the best video game marriage proposals of all time, Gary's video game proposal sets the bar for other video game fanatics/romantics. 

Want to enlive the romance? The talented modder who helped Gary graciously made the proposal mod downloadable.

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Kasal.com thanks the following source for this article:

Chris Morris. Plugged In. “Romance is still alive: Portal 2 proposal wows Web” (Posted on 23 Aug 2011) Retrieved on 27 Aug 2011 from http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/romance-still-alive-portal-2-proposal-wows-001416958.html 

Kyla and Rich: December Wedding

Local celebrity singer Kyla and professional basketball player Rich Alvarez have announced some of the long awaited details of their wedding.

Though they did not disclose their exact wedding date, they have announced that it will be on December, before Christmas day. The traditional wedding will be held in a church in Manila.

Confirmed ninong and ninang are Ogie Alcasid and Regine Velasquez-Alcasid. Included in their list of secondary sponsors are Jolina Magdangal and Rachelle Ann Go. She also shared that almost all of them are her co-workers in GMA-7’s musical-variety show Party Pilipinas and other close friends.

Cocoy Lizaso will be designing Kyla’s wedding gown. Some of the wedding details will be prepared as soon as Rich is back in the country from Dubai.

Their pre-nuptial photos taken by Nice Print Photography can already be seen online.

Prenuptial Photo Shoot of Kyla and Rich.
Photo by Nice Print Photograph

The photo shoot was done in the Virgin Beach Resort in Batangas where the couple posed with the breathtaking view of the land and seascape.

Kyla plans to surprise Rich on their wedding day with her own musical composition. She admits that she found it difficult to write a song for their wedding day but she knows that the song will come as their wedding comes close.

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Kasal.com thanks the following source for this article:

Yahoo! OMG. The Shoot: Kyla and Rich Alvarez (Posted on July 5 2011) Retrieved on July 27, 2011 from

http://ph.omg.yahoo.com/photos/the-shoot-kyla-and-rich-alvarez-1309847113-slideshow/

Gorgy Rula. Philippine Entertainment Portal. Kyla and Rich Alvarez set their wedding date on December this year (Posted on July 2 2011) Retrieved on July 27 2011 from

http://www.pep.ph/news/30031/kyla-and-rich-alvarez-set-their-wedding-date-in-december

In Vogue: Wedding Gown with Detachable Wedding Train

The image of a bride walking down the aisle is somehow not complete without a long wedding gown train trailing behind her.

However, a long wedding train may not really be appropriate if you will have an outdoor wedding reception where your pristine wedding gown will be susceptible to grass and even mud stains. A long wedding train also limits the bride's movement to freely mingle with her wedding guests and may look out of place in an informal wedding program.

How to have the best of both worlds? Popular bridal gown designer Edward Teng suggests a wedding gown with a detachable wedding train.

Wedding Gown with Detachable Wedding Train
by Edward Teng

Wedding couturier Edward Teng shares, "very much in vogue, this fashionable yet sensible wedding gown idea allows brides to have the romance of formal wedding gowns and the practicality and modernity once the wedding train is detached."

You may put the wedding train for your walk down the aisle or for your wedding photo shoots, then remove it for an outdoor wedding reception or when the party starts.

Best of all, without the wedding train, you can actually reuse your wedding gown for other formal functions or engagements. Just add embellishments or accessories and you can transform your wedding gown into another fashionable formal attire.

Visit Edward Teng's bridal shop for more design ideas on wedding gowns with detachable wedding trains.

Wedding Bells for Vicki Belo

The would-be bride was just as surprised as all of us when news came out that Hayden proposed last December in the Downtown Aquarium in Texas.

Shown in an episode of “Rated K” in ABS-CBN, Hayden Kho proposed to Vicki Belo by asking two divers in the large aquarium to hold cards that said, “Hayden loves Vicki.”

“May nagdive sa aquarium na malaki. Sabi naman nito (Hayden), silipin natin kung sino yung nag-dive. Tapos, tumingin ako, ang sabi ‘Welcome to Downtown Aquarium.’ Ang cute. Tapos, next tile, ‘Hayden loves Vicki,’” Vicki said. 

Though the proposal was done months ago, it was only announced in July because of the many controversies and issues that have come their way throughout their relationship. The public has also been scrutinizing the couple because of their age gap, the opposition of Vicki’s children, and the video scandal involving Hayden and other female celebrities.

“Kase gusto namin to enjoy it privately kase alam namin na ganito nga ang mangyayari pag sinabi namin, ang daming batikos. Daming nagsasabi na hindi magwu-work,’ Vicki said in the “Rated K” interview.

Being truthful about the topic, Hayden said that there are people who are for and against the engagement. Their friends, on the other hand, showed support by sharing how Vicki and Hayden loved each other.

The exact date of their wedding is yet to be announced. They already have a wedding month in mind but they do not want to mention it to the public yet.
She shared though that it is possible that she will choose Monique Lhuiller to make her wedding dress.

To remove the risk of looking like being after Vicki’s money, Hayden asked for a pre-nuptial agreement to separate their own properties.

With everything that has happened in their relationship, Vicki said that the changed Hayden has made it worth enduring. “Sabi ko nga sa kanya, if I have to go through all that para lang maging ganito ka na, medyo worth it na rin, di ba? Kase nga sobrang naging mature, sobrang nagchange,” Vicki said.

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Kasal.com thanks the following source for this article:

Karen Valeza. Yahoo! Newsroom. How Hayden proposed to Vicki (Posted on July 11 2011) Retrieved on July 26 2011 from http://ph.omg.yahoo.com/news/how-hayden-proposed-to-vicki.html