Thom Getting Married

Thom sent me the save-the-date invite for his wedding the other day. And of course, I did exactly what I’ve been known to do when anything mildly poignant happens: I cried and cried.

 I was just overjoyed bcoz  Thom is practically my adopted little brother. Even after WU, he stayed.  I’ve lost count of all the times I blogged about how he is my most loyal and reliable and sweetest friend. He of all my friends has proven that a big part of friendship is all about showing up.

I still remember how I fed him with all these unsolicited crazy ideas about how he should propose to Joy. I was still in SG then, tho not so original.  And then there were all the serious talks we had way into the night about cryptic topics like The Future. Haha. I love that he has always treated me as his Ate whom he can trust with his life’s big issues, forgetting for a moment that I'm usually this shallow, uncaring person. Haha.

I’m just so glad that the day is finally here and he is all set to marry Joy, the love of his life. She is not only a UP lawyer, kick-ass brand manager in another pharma company, our neighbor, – she is also fabulous, warm and chatty, and responsible for introducing us to Guesstures, Melona, Pino, and Woorijib. After all of that, how can this girl ever go wrong, right? Hahaha.

It’s too bad I can’t make it to the wedding in San Francisco tho. I told Thom if it was even in January next year then I would definitely be there. Try as hard as I might, we’re just not the kind of people who can afford to travel to the US in a blink. Hahaha. Paula and I have offered to sing all thru-out the wedding if he will shoulder our plane fares. Even now we're still at it, us and our unsolicited crazy ideas. I actually sent him a list of all the songs I think they should play at the wedding. Hahaha.

Thom and Paula and I have what I call a love-hate relationship – we love to tease him, and he hates it but is too nice to get mad at us. Hahaha. He gets back at us, too, in his own subtle way, like threatening right this very end to make me a wedding ninang, when I’m not even ten years older than him. Grrr.

This is Thom's moment, tho, and someone as good and giving as him deserves no less than true J/joy. I told him that even if Pau and I may not be around to rock his wedding, I just know that it will turn out exactly like his save-the-date invite - exquisite, joyful, and perfectly heartbreaking. I just know it.