Miss Saigon and Hamilton star Rachelle Ann Go and her American fiancé Martin Spies are tying the knot in Boracay on April 19. Thanks to Rachelle Ann’s own IG stories, fans now know that she has arrived in Boracay and is all set to walk down the aisle. On Monday, April 15 user with IG handle roxycoco12 reposted series of videos of Rachelle Ann’s bridal shower she shared on her IG stories. Watch the videos below.
The engagement was announced September 2017 but the details of the wedding were still kept under wraps. Here’s what we know about the upcoming wedding.
Here’s what we know about the Go-Spies wedding so far
A report by PEP confirms that Rachelle Ann Go and fiance Martin Spies are indeed set to get married on April 19. People consider them lucky since the date is just a week before the start of the six-month rehabilitation of the famous travel destination.
Boracay beach wedding
The same IG account re-posted a video of Go and her fiance Martin’s arrival in Boracay. She also shared a short video of their hotel room at Discovery Shores, Boracay, with matching welcome banner and bear for the soon-to-be Mr. and Mrs. Spies.
The fiance
According to the business-and-employment social networking site LinkedIn, as reported by GMA Network, Martin Spies is a New Yorker who earned a degree in Business Administration / Finance at the University of Florida and currently works as general manager for an American luxury fitness company Equinox.
How they met
It was in early 2017, Rachelle Ann was in New York for the tour of Miss Saigon, where she was cast as the bar girl Gigi Van Trahn. Their love story began when they were introduced to each other by a mutual friend during a Christian service. February 7, 2017 was when she noted the day they posed for their first picture together. And April that year, Rachelle Ann started posting on Instagram photos of her and Martin together in New York. It was on August 23 when she finally confirmed through an IG post that they are a couple. In the post, she described Martin as the kind of guy who “puts God first and prays with/for you.”
The proposal
Theirs is a short engagement. After less than a month, during their vacation in Boracay, Martin proposed marriage to Rachelle which the singer announced and confirmed through an IG post.
Their wedding coordinator
The couple have chosen Teena Barretto as their wedding coordinator. Barretto was also the wedding coordinator for Dingdong Dantes and Marian Rivera’s wedding. In an IG post, Go said that she’s glad Barretto is gonna be working with Barretto.