Martina “Beling” Go Ching Hai, prominent civic leader, turned 87 and there was a grand celebration at the ballroom of the Radisson Blu Hotel. Hosting were her children, their spouses and grandchildren:
The Cebu Chapter of La Chaine des Rotisseurs held a white night fellowship at the Ibiza Beach Club of the Movenpick Hotel in Mactan. Most of the guests complied with the dress code, making it all seem like a luminous evening in the Balearic Isles.
We arrived in church just as they had closed the door right before the bridal march, and heard Monique Lhuillier’s repeated plea to the wedding coordinator: “Please, I need to fix my mom’s dress.”
The Cebu chapter of La Chaine des Rotisseurs held a fellowship dinner at Anzani’s in Nivel Hills. Marco Anzani and his wife Kate Dychangco Anzani dubbed it “Ferragosto Gastronomic Tour of Italy.” It scored high among the 75 gourmets and gourmands who filled the place.
Time flies when you’re having fun. With summer just around the corner, it’s time for us to plan vacations, even if these are just on weekends.
A certain mountaintop in the Visayas might still be a patch of wild terrain today if Michel Lhuillier had followed a divergent career path in his youth. “He wanted to become a farmer when he graduated from De La Salle (University),” revealed his wife, Dr. Amparito Llamas Lhuillier, the light-heartedness evident in her voice as she shared the fond memory. Instead, his dream of a pastoral life was deferred for a few decades while he pursued a more lucrative trajectory in jewelry and finance. Now, after raising their family and building a business empire together, the indefatigable couple is enjoying that long-awaited bucolic lifestyle in the hills high above Cebu.
Michel and Amparito Lhuillier gathered an intimate group of friends and relations for dinner at La Maison Rose to celebrate their 49th wedding anniversary. Present were Michel’s sisters Angie L. Mathieu, with son David Paulson, and Marguerite Lhuillier, recently arrived from Las Vegas and planning a trip to Europe.
When Georgina Padilla Y Zobel de Mac-Crohon was in Cebu to launch the book “La Oveja de Nathan” (Nathan’s Sheep), her dear friend Carmen Campbell hosted an elegant dinner at La Maison Rose.
Monique Lhuillier is poised to open stores in Hong Kong and Manila.
MICHEL and Amparito Lhuillier have just celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in Cebu. It was a two-day observance that was as well planned as it was attended by a throng of family and friends.
