The expat life may sound exciting to most, but to trailing spouses, the thought of giving up one’s career and comfort zone is daunting. There are those, however, who have managed this life change well—and one of those is cross-border “wife-trepreneur” Valerie Villar Zayco.
When Valerie Villar-Zayco wed nearly three years ago, she had bad dreams about her wedding dress. Not having seen or tried on her custom-made gown close to the altar date, “I had nightmares that my dress was maong,” the young woman recalls. Her then-fiancé was so distressed seeing her that way that he said she ought to just buy a dress off-the-rack to get it over and done with.
It was her own experience of hunting for her dream wedding dress that propelled Pepper Periquet-Guanio to establish Mi Sueño Bridal Boutique. (Mi sueño is “my dream” in Spanish.) In
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