To learn more about what a wedding is like, sometimes one must look at the place – its past, people and culture. For example, what people know about Bacolod? The house of the Mass Kara Festival? It’s not like people go around wearing masks during their wedding ceremonies. So instead, let’s step back in time, only to learn more about the place called the City of Smiles.
Negros Occidental is also widely known for hacienderos, the Ilonggo elite descent, and the Spanish and French who came to the place due to the collapse of the textile industry in the 19th century. Therefore, the sugar industry was born and sustained.
With the opening of the Suez Canal, galas Bacolod was flooded with European works of art, and images of Baroque churches and mansions in expansion. Splendour that is evident in the center of San Sebastian Church and in the manors of Locsins, Lizareses, Araneta, Gaston and Lacsons.
The appreciation of the details is also evident in works of art such as the mosaic mural of a native Madonna tapis, carrying the baby Jesus with a rosary, all this took place at the capiz-shell spaces of different sizes.
Some structures of the heritage of this fascinating p0lace Aniceto Lacson House are featured in movies such as Lino Brocka of Gumising Ka, Maruja “and Negrense Peque Gallaga of” Oro Plata Mata, “and the Lizares Mansion in Talisay, with its Moorish window patterns, a molave angel found in the family cemetery, desk Placido Mapa, and the first drawings of the artist Arturo Luz National.
Silay City, by contrast, is home to the Romanesque church of San Diego and its silver dome and the big clock. With these snapshots of Negros Occidental, it is easy to imagine how intimate and elaborate, or happy and live (with many relatives and some politicians and pulled High Society) weddings are Bacolod.
We can imagine the dance (folk dance, after all Visayan covers everything from worship to courtship dance wedding dances and mimetic dances, mostly of a flight of birds, fish harvesting, wine making, etc.. )
And we can imagine how they courted at the time, a tradition passed on by ancestors of the province of Ilocos. “Tapat” is courtship through poetry and song as a serenade to a young lady, and Mrs. answers in a song length of a courtship that is in front of him. Then the man responds with a passionate song and answers continue until an “understanding” is made.
Finally, we can imagine the place-Bacolod in all its splendor and charm. People who live here in Sugarland, with its lilting accent, hospitality and refined, strong-willed personalities really distinguish it. There is the smell of chicken inasal (probably not go missing at any family reunion or wedding rehearsal) and the appeal of golf, water sports, mountain biking for the more adventurous.
Bacolod City is the heritage, culture and nature, all in one. Easily accessible, interesting and affordable, it is definitely a wonderful choice for a destination outside the city of the wedding.
