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.
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.
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 Lhuillier, honorary consul of France in the Visayas, and Amparito Llamas Lhuillier hosted a grand celebration for France’s National Day at the ballroom of the Marco Polo Plaza Hotel.
Amparito Llamas Lhuillier was conferred the degree of Doctor of Humanities, honoris causa, by the University of San Jose-Recoletos (USJ-R). In the school’s 65-year history there have only been five so honored, and Amparito is the only woman.
It was an “asalto” for Michel Lhuillier on his birthday at the family-owned Gustavian restaurant in Banilad. Loving wife Amparito Llamas Lhuillier, who is the helm of the place, made sure the menu and service were special.
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