Tony & Sol, 30th Pearl Wedding Anniversary, Thanksgiving Celebration, The Renewal of Vows!

Our Pearl Wedding Thanksgiving Day!

December 18, 2021

Saturday, 4:30 AM (Misa De Gallo)

The Manila Cathedral, Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Conception

By Rev. Fr. Reginald Rivera Malicdem

Our 30th Pearl Wedding Anniversary, Thanksgiving Day!

30 years multiplied by 365 equals the number of days we've been married, 

that's 10,950 days.

Our Family Picture with Fr. Regie!

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Our sincerest appreciation to

Rev. Fr. Reginald Rivera Malicdem

(Rector of Manila Cathedral)

This milestone anniversary is a perfect opportunity for us to vow renewals as we both recommit to a life together. 

Renewing our vows can be a powerful way to reinforce to each other and our family how despite everything, we still want to stand side by side and celebrate our love surviving. Our vow renewals can symbolize a clean slate to start again and how we choose to shape our future together against all odds.

After 30 years of marriage and the ups and downs we’ve both gone through, our relationship has taken multiple different paths, and I feel the need to declare a different set of commitments to each other. Certain vows we made the first time around might not be so relevant to both of us now. That could be because we have different priorities in life now and as we’ve both grown together as a couple, we both deem new aspects of our love and commitment more important. Creating a new set of vows for different stages of our lives and our relationship can be a wonderful way to embrace the changes we’ve gone through but reinforces that no matter what our love has remained strong.

What more can I think of about romantic gestures, since it's Pandemic time. Our love for each other runs so deep that I wish to shout it to the world and celebrate the fact that we would make that commitment repeatedly in a heartbeat.

The 30th Anniversary is known as the Pearl Anniversary because, historically, wives celebrating their 30th Anniversary were presented with pearls. Natural pearls are beautiful but scarcely found jewels, which is precisely why they were first associated with the 30th Anniversary. Like pearls, couples who reach 30 years of marriage are relatively rare, and the giving of the pearl symbolizes the beauty and scarcity of such a wonderful union.

Tony and Sol

30th Pearl Wedding Anniversary Thanksgiving Celebration

Renewal of Vows!

Throwback Photos!

Our Wedding Day!
December 18, 1991

Our 25th Wedding Anniversary!
December 18, 2016

An anniversary is a time to celebrate today’s moments of joy, and yesterday’s great memories, and share hopes for tomorrow. These have been the best years of our lives. I am so glad that we decided to tie the knot 30 years ago. You are my one and only husband, best friend, and the love of my life. I wouldn’t trade our marriage for anything in the world!

(Pagsasariwa ng mga pangako sa pag-iisang-dibdib)
Minamahal kong Tony and Sol, naririto kayo sa harap ng Diyos upang pasalamatan siya sa kanyang pagmamahal at katapatan sa inyo noong kanyang pag isahin ang inyong puso at buhay 30 taong na ang nakaraan. Sa inyong pag sasariwa ng mga pangako sa kasal, hilingin ninyo sa Diyos na patuloy nya kayong lingapin at subaybayan.

Tony and Sol
When you first joined hands and hearts in marriage 30 years ago, you did not know where life would take you.

You promised to love, honor and cherish one another through all things. Life has brought you wonderful blessings and difficult challenges over the years. But here you are today, having fulfilled the vows to love, honor, and cherish you each made on your wedding day. And with that God is smiling.

(Join your right hands)
As we celebrate here today, and as you reflect over all the years as husband and wife, do you now wish to reaffirm the vows you took 30 years ago?
(Tony & Sol - Yes, I Do)

Renewal of Vows
Tony, will you continue to have Sol as your wife
and continue to live in this happy and loving marriage?
Tony: Yes, I Do.

Tony, Do you reaffirm your love for Sol, and will you love,
honor and cherish her in sickness and in health,
for richer or poorer, for better or worse, and forsaking all others,
be faithful to her for as long as you both shall live?
Tony: Yes, I Do.

Sol, will you continue to have Tony as your husband and
continue to live in this happy and loving marriage?
Sol: Yes, I Do.

Do you reaffirm your love for Tony, and will you love,
honor and cherish him in sickness and in health,
for richer or poorer, for better or worse, and forsaking all others,
be faithful to him for as long as you both shall live?
Sol: Yes, I Do.

Since you intend to renew your vows in the covenant of Holy Matrimony,
join your right hands, and declare your consent before God and his Church.

May the Lord in His goodness strengthen your consent and fill you both with His blessings.

"What God has joined together, let no man put asunder."

Rev. Fr. Reginald Malicdem blesses the wedding rings as symbols of deep faith and peace.

Tony and Sol exchange them with a promise of unconditional love and fidelity.

Tony and Sol,
On your wedding day, you exchanged rings as a symbol of the never-ending circle
that symbolizes the eternal quality of God, unending strength, and unending love.

May you always wear your rings as a reminder of your wedding vows to each other, and your commitment to continuing to live in unity, love, and happiness.

Sol, I give you this ring as a symbol of my vow, love, loyalty, faithfulness, and with all that I am and all that I have, I honor you, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Tony, I give you this ring as a symbol of my vow, love, loyalty, faithfulness, and with all that I am and all that I have, I honor you, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Father Reggie: May Tony and Sol, be blessed with the guidance, strength, and direction to make their relationship grow and blossom in the years ahead.

Father Reggie gave me a priestly blessing and prayer for the sick.

PRONOUNCEMENT

Tony and Sol, today you have renewed the promises and vows
you made to each other on your wedding day.

You have symbolized the renewal of the marriage union by the joining of hands,
the taking of vows, and by exchanging of rings.

Rev. Fr. Reginald Malicdem's Blessings

It is with pleasure that I conclude the ceremony of renewing the vows of marriage that joined you and forever binds you as husband and wife.

Please celebrate this renewal of vows with a sign of affection.

Tony and Sol after 30 years

We have shared the joys, blessings, and challenges, of married life for 30 years.
And, today we reconfirm our commitment to working together to make our marriage grow and blossom in the years to come.

May this ceremony, renewing the vows we took to become husband and wife on our wedding day, remind us that despite the stresses inevitable in every life, our love, respect, trust, and understanding of each other will continue to increase our contentment and heighten our joy in living. Amen.

After we kissed, Father Reggie give us a big round of applause. 

After we renewed vows father Regie gave me the story of Saint Rita of Avila. It was an inspiring moment for me to hear such a kind story yet not easy to think about. Thank you so much, for the priestly blessing and prayer for my health. One precious moment turns out to be a miracle of faith. 

Rev. Fr. Reginald Rivero Malicdem
Rector of Manila Cathedral

A good husband/wife is a gift from God. 

18 Signs He’s the One Sent by God for You.

1. He speaks the words of God.

2. He practices what he speaks.

3. He doesn’t lie.

4. He doesn’t corrupt your good character.

5. He honors and respects you.

6. He is just and merciful.

7. He makes sacrifices.

8. He forgives you.

9. He gives you grace.

10. Love: He loves you.

11. Joy: He has a cheerful heart.

12. Peace: He is a man of peace.

13. Longsuffering: He is patient.

14. Gentleness: He is a true gentleman.

15. Goodness: He is a good man.

16. Faith: He is faithful.

17. Meekness: He can humble himself.

18. Temperance: He has self-control.

Tony Albar The Awesome Dad

What in the world could I change about a man that loves his family, works hard, and treats his wife with love and respect?

You are so full of compassion, love, and strength. When we need a strong hand of support in our family, you are always there. I love you for being who you are and for all that you do.

When I look at you being a Dad, my heart swells with gratitude and pride. I find myself sitting in a corner, admiring you being your natural self, being in your comfort zone of daddy hood. I feel so blessed to have a husband like you.

I am so thankful that our family was blessed with a father as caring, thoughtful, and supportive as you. It must be Heavenly Father looking out for me. He knew we would compliment each other so he blessed us with each other.

Thank you for always putting our family's interest first. Thank you making me laugh even when I was sad. Thank you for being that shining light in my darkest night. Thank you for encouraging me to waive a new dream each morning. Thank you for always being there for me in my sad days and also the happy once.

Everyday, I wish you continuous blessings from above, for God's guidance, protection, strength for health, long life and prosperity.

We love you from the bottom of our hearts. Wink!

Tony Albar

What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

Hong Kong Disneyland, February 12, 2008

Portrait painting of Tony with Baby Andreij

Andreij's 1st Christmas 

Tony with 3 years old Toddler Andreij

Little things they love doing together.

Exchanging of views and topics.
Learning the cycle of everyday adventure.

Helping each other and extending their own selves to others.

Tony and Andreij shopping time at Orchard, Lucky Plaza and Chinatown, Singapore, 2014

Wrap your child warmly every day with layers of your unconditional,
healthy love before you send him out into the world,
he will rarely feel the cold chill that often comes
with life's changing seasons.

Daddy Coach created our own little Champ!

Good father make good son.

What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”

Me and Andreij and our awesome Dad!

"In togetherness we're happy at all stages of our life."

When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. ~ Joyce Brothers

By: Princesssoldiaries ©

2013 Tony Birthday Celebration

Happy 54th Birthday Tony!

God gave a gift to the world when you were born, a person who loves and cares,

who sees a person's need and fills it, who encourages and lifts people up,

who spends energy on others rather than himself,

who touches each life he enters & makes a difference in the world.

May the love you have shown to others return to you multiplied.

Simple moments are made of this. 

Tony and the Sbarro's brother's Joseph, Mario, and Anthony.
August 26, 2012

Morning Birthday Cake!

Many things have changed over the years,
but we're still the same person we always have been.

It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary.
Looking into a child's eyes, that's how simple life should be.

Supreme Italian Pizza, White Cheese Italian Pizza, Italian Spaghetti, Pasta Vito, Macaroni and Caesars Salad

Shopping Time!

Dinner at Kenny Rogers

All time favorite, Kenny Rogers Roasted chicken!

Live every moment!

We talked about old times,
which made me smile because we didn't forget.

2008 Villa Escudero

February 24, 2008, day visit at Villa Escudero with my family.

About Villa Escudero

Experience the allure of Philippine country life at Villa Escudero Plantations and Resort.

A self-contained working coconut plantation, It was founded in the 1880s by Don Placido Escudero and his wife Dona Claudia Marasigan. Originally planted to sugarcane, the crop was converted to coconut by their son Don Arsenio Escudero in the early 1900s. A pioneering agro-industrialist, he built the country’s first working hydroelectric plant to supply his dessicated coconut factory and Villa Escudero, where he and his wife Dona Rosario Adap built in 1929.

Their children opened the estate to the public in 1981. From its humble beginnings, the resort has become a prime tourist destination for locals, overseas Filipinos and a wide array of foreign visitors to the country. It has a worldwide reputation as a showcase for the Philippines’ rich cultural heritage, offering a beguiling glimpse of its history, cuisine, dress, customs and natural beauty a mere two hours away from Manila.

Picture taking with the natives while we're having our lunch.

Andreij seems loves the Indian headdress so much.

Andreij at the Water Falls

Enjoying our lunch at the waterfalls area.