Bianca Gonzalez and JC Intal on Wednesday renewed their wedding vows as they celebrated their fifth anniversary as a married couple.
The television host, who organized the surprise wedding ceremony, shared photos from the intimate celebration on her Instagram page.
“Five years may seem a bit ‘soon’ to renew wedding vows, but for us, we felt it was the perfect time to be reminded of what marriage is and how we can continue to nurture our relationship as husband and wife. Anyone who has been married for several years knows that married life is FAR from picture perfect moments like these. And anyone who is married with kids knows that the blissful newlywed stage is FAAAR from the exhausted, sleepless, breastfeeding-and-chasing-after-kids stage. Marriage is a daily choice to love your spouse. There are days when you say or do hurtful things. There are decisions and situations where you don't get along. Marriage requires effort, and it is an unending series of mistakes and learnings,” she wrote in one of her captions.
“JC and I aren't really big on gift-giving, so we felt this was the best way for us to celebrate our fifth year. Our vows during our wedding day were idealistic and said through rose-tinted specs. Our vows today after 5 years and 2 kids were more rooted and real. I cried hearing my husband share what was in his heart, and I cried while reassuring him of my love and apologizing for my shortcomings in the midst of the daily grind of my being focused on our young kids' needs. We smiled at each other hearing each one's vows, because we wrote them separately, but apparently we ended our vows saying the exact same thing. Mahal, like I said 5 years ago, may we both never forget the feeling of our wedding day, and may we both never forget the feeling of today,” she added.
JC, a basketball player for the Phoenix Pulse Fuel Masters, on the other hand, thanked his wife for organizing "this beautiful surprise."
“Today, 5 years into it, we renewed our vows as husband and wife with Lucia and Carmen as witness. Thank you to our friend Bro Hans Pe for your time and words of wisdom, and of course to my wife for this beautiful surprise,” he said.
Bianca and JC tied the knot at a beach wedding in Palawan on December 4, 2014, after more than three years together. They now have two daughters—Lucia, 4, and Carmen, 1.