We got married on Oct. 06 2012. We met in september of 2007 in media arts class. I was assigned to sit next to him in a computer lab since my last name was Alvarado and his is Barbosa following the alphabetical order. I remember being a fan of this movie called the crow and being bored I googled pictures of it on the computer and what do you know Philippe was googling the same thing. I had a feeling he wanted to talk so I spontaniously talked to him cuz I wasn't really a social kinda person and being in 12th grade I don't speak to 11th grade guys. My first impression of him was bad I thought he was a smart mouth and he just knows it all kinda guy. He was a great listner, but thats because he had a crush on me for a while. So I liked him as a friend and I just wanted to be friends but I fell in love with his smile it is a handsome smile. So we contacted each other on facebook and MSN and by the way his friend got my contact information not him and his friend was just two seats away from me. So we talked on MSN. He asked me out and we saw a movie together it was just hanging out friendship movie night but he had a plan. Since I love art and was well known in high school for doing murals he asked me to do a mural for his cousins room. I couldn't say no i love to do that stuff but again I just wanted to be friends. So the next weekend we meet to go to an art store down town and then I asked him if we could have a bubble tea since it was nerby and him being a complete virgin about bubble tea I took him down to china town and that's when I would open up to him just about anything I normally don't do this with guys then he opened up and I started to like him more. I knew he had a crush on me, so to make him feel better I asked him if I could lean on him. As this happened I felt happy, butterflies were in my stomache but I still wanted to know him better and just be friends. It wasn't until one night at our high school our art class held an art exhibition I was bored and saying to myself I wish philippe was here. Suddenly he came down those stairs and walked up to me that's when I knew he was really interested in me, and I started to fall for him. I was hoping to hang out with him the night going over to his home for the first time but my mother showed up. I remember leaving and all I see is Philippe walking bye me and saying bye, when my mother starts to say "Silvia who is that boy?" He's just a friend I said "stay away from guys." My mom would say. I laughed about it cuz she had no idea that we had a thing for each other. I had no idea that he would eventually become my husband. He was my only first and last sweetheart, we were highschool sweethearts. It was a battlefield waiting. I wanted to get married in 2009 when I wasn't even engaged my husband being two years younger than me, wasn't mature enough to commit to marriage. Plus we both wanted a wedding with our family as witnesses, and weddings are expensive. July 16 2010 he proposed to me at a private park on a random hot summer afternoon. I was excited I wanted to wear the ring but it was to big for me to wear, it could fall off easily. October 2012 is when we wanted to set the date but it wasn't official until after a frustrated year of being at the crossroads of uncertainty and discouragement that we finally set the date. We were gonna wait longer an extra four years because of finances but we did not decide for our circumstance to dictate our future we took this commitment and submited it to God in pray for His help and His help came after a couple of rough seasons. When he came into the picture he just backed me up with  His grace and provision. Moving forward Planing the wedding was I alot of planning but exciting too. People at work would ask me why I'm always smiling. When I look back I was always smiling. ^_^ still do cuz I'm still in love with my husband.   

I always loved fall, my birthday is in October and my mother and sisters too not to mention thanksgiving. Fall is my favourite season with its colourful landscape and beautiful skies and pumpkin pies I knew I had to have a wedding during this time. We got married at a country club place called Orchardview, nicely secluded in the counrty side of ottawa surrounded by colourful trees with a man made pond and garden gazebo. I was 22 years old going on 23 that same month on the 22nd, and my husband was only 21.The day was overcast all day and just before the ceremony it rained very lightly people found a garden snake slithering around the bush it creaped them out. It rained even while the bridal party and I were getting prepared to go outside, since it was an outdoor ceremony in a gazebo. As the bridesmaids were walking down the aisle the the sky was clearing out and the sun shined brightly as I walked down the aisle with my dad. Only God could have moved those clouds during these moments because the sky became overcast again after the outdoor photoshoot. I was happy and my husband too but he was nervous during the entire ceremony up until the portuguese speech he made to his grandparents. His legs were shaking during the ceremony it was funny. Everybody enjoyed thier time and loved the seafood midnight table buffet. Just as we were begining to feel tired everyone started to leave. All of a sudden I was having an alergic reaction and my face turned tomato red my neck and arms too. I was worried that I would have to go to the hospital but my husband and brother prayed for me and gradually the rashes were going away. Before going to bed that night the rashes left and I was healed. Thank God most of the guest did not see this, only my immediate family witnessed this, it was kinda funny.

We are very excited to move in our condo soon. It will be a great relief from living with inlaws. We already had a honneymoon trip to California, but to celebrate our marriage more we would like to make a second honeymoon trip on a cruise to the west Caribbean, cuz the honeymoon never ends. I always wanted to go the carribbean, and since my husband already went on a cruise with his family to the caribbean a few years back I wanted to go south west caribbean since he has never gone there before. I know this will not be our last honeymoon trip we plan to travel the world throughout our marriage and like I said before the honeymoon never ends

I would like to thank God for being there for us throught this whole time, I'm very grateful for Him in our lives. I would like to thank our parents for supporting us by investing in the wedding planning. And to our family and frieands who celebrated with us it would have not been special and worth waiting for if it wasn't for everyones presence.