Monique Wilson is set to tie the knot with longtime partner

Maureen Marie Belmonte

<div><img src='' alt='061215-monique_main.jpg' width='400' height='290' align='left' border='0'>Theater actress Monique Wilson is finally tying the knot this Sunday with her longtime partner Rossana Abueva.</div><div><br/></div><div>An Interaksyon.com report on Thursday claimed that the ceremony will happen at Notting Hill, London, around 12:30 p.m.</div><div><br/></div><div>Same sex marriage has been ruled to be legal in United Kingdom since March 2014.</div><div><br/></div><div>The report likewise quoted the couple’s invitation card: “After seventeen years together, come celebrate our seven year civil partnership into a more revolutionary commitment: marriage (in the eyes of the law), but really — the reaffirming of our radical union with those who have lived and laughed, cried and celebrated, rallied and protested, created and adventured with us these last seventeen years.”</div><div><br/></div><div>Wilson was best known as <i>The Voice of the Philippines</i> coach Lea Salonga’s alternate in the lead role of Kim in the inaugural 1989 West End production of the hit musical <i>Miss Saigon.</i></div><div><br/></div><div>She is also currently the director of <i>One Billion Rising</i>, a global movement against rape and sexual violence against women.<i> One Billion Rising</i> was founded by Eve Ensler, the playwright behind episodic play <i>The Vagina Monologues</i> where Wilson had been part of several times here in the country.</div><div><br/></div><div>Meanwhile, Abueva is a bank executive based in Singapore.</div><div><br/></div><div>Wilson and Abueva’s upcoming union will be the second same-sex marriage by a Filipino female celebrity in showbiz’s history. </div><div><br/></div><div>Last December, singer-actress Aiza Seguerra tied the knot with actress-beauty queen Liza Dino in San Francisco, California.</div>

Monique Wilson set to marry long-time partner Rossana Abueva.

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