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Months ago we know we'd probably have a problem with the weather on our wedding day, the last week of May in Laguna being characterized by hot day time temperatures and sporadic thunderstorms in the afternoons, a welcome sign for farmers to start their planting. We tried to look for viable (indoor) alternatives to the venue, but the resort with the lovely lawn still ended up as the best option for us. It would have been more difficult to set the wedding on a different month, on the other hand. Thus we are pretty much letting Mother Nature decide whether we'll have a rain-free outdoor wedding party. Well, sort of...
Just a few days ago I visited the Poor Clare Monastery in Cabuyao, Laguna and brought my prayer petition for fair weather and the safe travel of all the people who will be with us on the 28th, together with the traditional offering of a dozen eggs (yes,not only for fertility but apparently also for good weather) plus, laundry detergents! Gerry the make-up artist told me the nuns are now also accepting more practical stuff aside from the eggs, and when the sun is up they can use the detergents to do their laundry. :)
Another thing he's suggesting is that I hang the clothes that I'd slept in the night before just outside our house on the morning of our wedding day. He said it works, but I don't know how this fares with the other counter-measure I heard from a veteran wedding caterer, who boiled stones on the day of a wedding to prevent a downpour. The hanging of the clothes- pretty harmless and easy to do, but the other one...uh, hmm...
Then, the researcher in me (the one who got into climate change adaptation, at that!) shrugs everything off and anticipates and plans for whatever happens on that day.
Realistic expectations, planning, and faith that things will turn out well in the end. As that Crowded House song goes, "Everywhere you go, you always take the weather with you."
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