Overview

• Jao Verdillo and Jamaica Aguilar proceeded with their long-planned wedding in Malolos’s 17th-century Barasoain Church despite roughly 30 cm of water inside the sanctuary.
• Guests, including bridesmaids in soaked attire, joined the ceremony in rubber boots and rolled-up hems as ABS-CBN likened the scene to a “romantic drama.”
• Philippine police reported at least twelve fatalities and 1.2 million people affected by flooding triggered by Wipha and persistent monsoon rains.
• More than 280,000 residents have been rendered homeless, prompting government and aid agencies to launch relief operations across Bulacan province.
• The wedding highlighted both cultural resolve and the mounting human toll of intensified storms in one of the world’s most typhoon-prone nations.