Last Feb 14, 2009- yes Valentine’s Day!-, Gwel and Coco had their wedding. They have planned for this event and spent money for it. Those who have prepared a wedding or a debut would understand how stressful planning something like this could be.

Unfortunately, they made a wrong choice of taking Immaculate Conception Parish’s (Balibago, Angeles City, Pampanga) Father Musni as their officiating priest.

What happened?! First of all, Catholic wedding usually takes more or less two hours to finish. Fr. Musni took less than 30 minutes to commence this one. The wedding was scheduled at 3pm so normally it would wrap up around 5pm, right?! I accept the fact that the bride was a little late- arrived at 3:15pm, but it didn’t take soooooo long…. as in late for just 15 minutes!

At 3:00pm Fr. Musni just got mad and everything he demanded that members of the entourage (groom and all) march down the aisle- YES, without the bride and other members of the entourage with her. Imagine how scared or panicked the groom was to march knowing that his bride is still no there!!

I was in the bride’s car when we received a message that the entourage had already marched the aisle and everybody were already seated. I justified that it will never happen.. knowing that a wedding would not commence without a bride. Well, I was wrong… Really, really wrong!

Arriving at the church, everybody was panicking telling us to walk the aisle as fast as we could. We were throwing the car keys to other people for them to park our cars- cannot recall to whom we threw them at. Fortunately, we didn’t throw them to carnappers, hehehe! Remember this happened at just 3:15pm.

When we were seated, Fr. Musni went to a part of the altar near the choir. With a loud voice (without a microphone, but everybody can hear), he told the choir (which was fully dressed up and prepared to sing their best) that there will be no singing- any singing for that matter! In their disappointment, the whole choir walked out of the church. Using the mic, he declared that he will shorten the ceremony, cutting parts of it- no homily, no singing, and some other parts of the wedding mass. He said that he has another commitment and that they cannot find a replacement for him, that nobody wants that to happen. Yeah, but he made it happen right?! He also claimed that it was an uncontrollable situation…. DUH!!! The couple paid for the church fees expecting a solemn wedding!

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For this to happen in a once in a lifetime moment, I would understand why I would be teary-eyed with anger! I myself wanted to smack the head of that priest.

I understand that he would fast track the wedding, as he claimed, but what he did was to totally eliminate parts of the wedding ceremony. The commentator and the people cannot figure out which part of the wedding in the misalet it was. The candle, cord and veil sponsors didn’t know if they would still do their parts. Fr. Musni asked the couple to read their vows. Of course they were just merely reading it without feeling it since the priest was pressuring.. then he claimed that the couple should have said it with sincerity. Hello!!! How would you be able to do that with a possessed priest in front of you!

As I have said nobody knew which part of the mass we were in. During consecration- part of the mass where everybody kneels- some people didn’t know that it was time to kneel. He announced to the mic impolitely that we should kneel. And so we did! During the part where he wanted us to stand, and nobody knew it was time to stand he claimed that we were lazy.. Yes, he was using his mic!

I understand why just a handful accepted communion. Some opt not to go inside the church as to not be disrespectful like its parish priest.

After the mass, he just signed the contract and then left. He ended everything before 3:45pm. Now I believe the gossip that a lot of parishioners hate Fr. Musni. I for one would never choose to get married before him if he is the last officiating priest on Earth. Never would I ask him to baptize my child or give me my final blessing before I die and before I lay to rest.

Good thing everybody managed to control themselves. We had another walking in the aisle with everybody there. Had our pictures taken pleasantly without him.

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