pre marriage seminar

[baboyako]

its more than a 25 minute thing.

We both had to fill in a 'pre -pre marriage seminar' exam.

stuff like,
1) who do you expect to earn the money.
2) who do you expect to initiate sex.
3) how many childen do you want.
4) is having a baby within the first 12 months important.

3 pages of that stuff.. the seminar itself is an all day thing (8am start), I read the teachers manual & its all stuff on household accounting, conflict management & all very serious.

As for the barangay things. she had to pay her barangay tax (150pesos), then get a certificate to say she had paid her tax (100pesos). All this had to copied in triplicate. Then some other forms (I had lost interest by this stage), nothing expensive anyway.

No trees planted. I'm sure that's to come...

[IainBusby]

its more than a 25 minute thing.

We both had to fill in a 'pre -pre marriage seminar' exam.

I think you were very unlucky with your seminar, mine was over as soon as we coughed up some money, P200 if I remember right. The man there just said a few things in Visayas to my wife and then said something in English the general gist of which was, that because I was an older man and had been married before, he was sure he didn't need to lecture me about the responsibilities of marriage.
Iain.