Mr. Tom and Kim Francisco Wedding story: When Accident becomes a Blessing

Mr. Tom and Kim Francisco Wedding story: When Accident becomes a Blessing

Shared by Mrs Kim Alyssa Francisco (married in church Jan 19, 2019). 

It was June 2, 2018 (Saturday) after lunch when I requested Tom to go in ManilaMed to get the endorsement letter for arthritis from Bella’s Doctor. It was almost two to three weeks or so since it was entrusted to us to get it as she can’t go to the clinic and busy on studying again.  I would like to go to Quiapo to buy Elly’s clothes from SM Clearance Outlet. I’ve said to him that we ride the motorcycle to get there faster and to avoid traffic because we can’t leave my youngest sibling alone as she’s a breastfeeding mother. There’s a numerous times I persuaded Tom to go but he insisted that his intuition want to make us stay at home and something might happen bad.  But around 4 or 5pm, he gave in, so from home we take U.N. near Unilever, heavy traffic greeted us. While on green light, around St. Pius XII on U.N. avenue, we tried to outstrip the trucks as we cross road but unfortunately, we hit someone. He was crossing the street when we collided with him – luckily we haven’t hit him hard and we didn’t stumbled down as well. I’m more worried with the victim because he is an elderly man. I’m upset with Tom as I scolded him for being careless yet we cannot do anything since we are the culprit. Upon rushing him to the nearest hospital, friends of attorney Doy (the victim) decided to take him to Manila Doctors Hospital as we’ve heard that they have a lot of connection and their family doctors reside there. But hearing that fact make me flustered with the idea of that hospital being more costly than Asian Hospital. We have money but it isn’t sufficient enough to cover the possible expenditures. I felt clammy and hypertensive at the same time. While waiting for the doctor, one of the SVVP Organization staff told us to stay and don’t worry because money isn’t the issue with our victim and they can provide as well. We just need to wait for his wife and decide what the outcome of negotiation. 

 While waiting, Atty. Doy interviewed us and know our background – if the motorcycle was Tom’s, his job, where do we live, and why we’re rushing things. We’ve waited for one to two hours until his wife came. She scolded us, took our photos, identification and contact number to call us for any procedures and necessities needed. Atty. Doy requested us go home as he told us our children waiting for us but we insisted to stay to see what measures they’re going to do. During our stay, we’ve been asked for some personal details like what we do for a living, where do we live and are we married since we have kids of our own. Honestly, we like to laugh when we’ve been asked about our marriage since our friends and relatives asked the same question. All of the sudden, they have this idea and knew what will our punishment and blessing at the same time. They’ve said to us to get married in the church. We’re flabbergasted with the thought like what the? We thought are they really serious about it? Because we’re not. We’ve been eight year in relationship and it never crossed our mind about it and we knew we’ll get there eventually but not for now. Tom even asked them if they were serious about it and they affirmed it with their Yes. We just need to process our papers and they will be going to take charge of everything. They made sure about it by putting it into writing before we leave. 

 THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT CEFERINO PATINO, VICTIM HIT BY MOTORCYCLE OWNED BY TOM FRANCISCO (BARTOLOME II B. FRANCISCO) PLATE # NF79421 JUNE 2, 2018 AROUND 5PM INFRONT OF PIUS CENTER U.N AVENUE MANILA. AGREED TO AMICABLE SETTLED THE CASE AMONG THEMSELVES. CEFERINO PATINO'S SIGNATURE BARTOLOME II B. FRANCISCO'S SIGNATURE after the letter. They’ve photocopied the ID and gave us church representative’s calling card to contact in regards with wedding preparation.

July 16, 2018 - We’ve started to inquire for the necessities in church and caterer for the venue. We admitted that we’re both pressured for the wedding preparation due to lack of funds for a lavish wedding. We’re both glad that the church staffs assisted us in financial and documents wise. God bless and guide us to make it possible. We’re felt down when slots aren’t available or limited on venues, caterers or churches. People like us who had children first and contented in that kind of relationship would not though nor we have don’t have any interest in tying the knot or most likely we’ll have a simple civil wedding instead, we cannot afford to spend too much money  on it due my first born health maintenance expenditures. She was diagnosed with ITP (low platelets count) and arthritis until now she’s on continuous medication and check-up. She also have delayed growth and communication disorder that make us no choice and set our priorities to our child than to have ourselves married. It’s our biggest challenge because Tom is the only breadwinner. He has to work hard to sustain our needs and yet still our faith for God keep us to get going. 

Two to three weeks before our wedding when we have this big misunderstanding – we already talked to the church staff to cancel our wedding and we want to separate ways due to the complexities of our situation. Tom want to leave the house and I’m too exhausted that I want to give it a rest. We don’t know what to do. After 2 weeks, we decided to continue even though we’re still mad to each other. We attended the pre-cana seminar and this seminar made our eyes open to the fact that men and women have differences and what God want for the married couple. We just recently knew that if you’re decided to settle down, you’re going to have yourselves to get married. No need for lavish and grandiose wedding if you’re willing to get married. We would like to thank Elite Memoirs for accommodating us, you made our wedding flow smooth and memorable. I know it wasn’t the dream wedding because of its simplicity but to be wed with the one you love in front of our Almighty God is the dream wedding I always dream of. Thank you very much to the St. Pius X parish for prioritizing us. 

Thank you Atty. Doy our fate crossed and make us to pursue and make this dream come true. THANK YOU LORD, Time challenge us and even though our blessing comes early which is our children. You didn’t forsake us and make seem to be impossible things possible. 

And Lastly Hon, Tom, Thank you. Thank you for all the sacrifices you’ve done to us. Thank you for being understanding and considerate. Challenges will come, just hold on and God will provide. 

Message from messenger: 

Hi miss Ela, first of all i wanna say thank you, even though sometimes we settled our payment late. Thank you so much elite memoirs for fulfilling my dream wedding. Since our workflow from the time that inquiry until the prenup preparation gone smooth. You guys are very accommodating. Photographer, videographer and make-up artist are very friendly. Even though we just correspond via facebook messenger and cellphone – due to the distance between Sta. Ana to Novaliches. You comply with all our needs. To sir Jhunelle, sir Joseph, maam Yury and the rest of the make-up artistry staff. Thank you so much for accommodating us. To the hotel, church and reception coordinator and catering team, thank you very much for making the flow of my wedding smooth even though there’s changes to the very last minute we’ve change our location for reception as you ms. Ela and ms. Yury suggested the said place. To SDE team, thank you very much. The video was amazing. We’re so happy on the video and everyone’s pleased with the video. We are so blessed that we found your team to make our wedding extraordinary. Kudos to your team miss Ela. More clients to come elite memoirs. 

Love lots 

Mr. and Mrs. Francisco