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Photos: A Flooded Wedding

Despite flooding caused by heavy monsoon rains, Jade Rick Verdillo and Jamaica Aguilar decided to stick to their planned wedding date yesterday, and held the ceremony inside a flooded church in the Philippines.

By Alan Taylor
A newlywed couple kisses after a wedding ceremony inside a church that has been flooded, with about a foot of standing floodwater.
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Newlyweds Jade Rick Verdillo and Jamaica Aguilar kiss during their wedding in the flooded Barasoain church in Malolos, Bulacan province, Philippines on July 22, 2025.
A bride with a long, flowing train, stands in foot-deep floodwater outside a church.
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Bride Jamaica Aguilar prepares to enter the flooded Barasoain church for her wedding in Malolos on July 22, 2025.
Wedding guests walk inside a flooded church.
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Wedding guests walk inside the flooded Barasoain church on July 22, 2025.
A top-down view of several pairs of shoes on a church pew, surrounded by shallow floodwater
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Wedding guests leave their shoes on a pew above the high-water mark during the ceremony.
A bride walks down the aisle of a church, through foot-deep floodwater.
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The bride, Jamaica Aguilar, walks down the aisle during her wedding ceremony.
Groomsmen and guests with their pant legs rolled up stand in floodwater.
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Groomsmen and guests with their pant legs rolled up stand in floodwater inside Barasoain church on July 22, 2025.
Five bridesmaids stand and sit among the pews in a flooded church.
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Bridesmaids stand among the pews.
Wedding guests lean out over a flooded church aisle to watch the ceremony.
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Guests lean out over the flooded aisle to watch the wedding ceremony.
A couple sits together on a small bench during a wedding ceremony in a flooded church.
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Jade Rick Verdillo and Jamaica Aguilar sit together during their wedding ceremony.
A newlywed couple walks together down a flooded church aisle.
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Newlyweds Jade Rick Verdillo and Jamaica Aguilar walk down the aisle, hand in hand, during their wedding.
Guests cheer as a newlywed couple shares a kiss inside a flooded church.
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Guests cheer as the newlywed couple shares a kiss inside the flooded Barasoain church in Malolos, Philippines, on July 22, 2025.

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Alan Taylor is a senior editor at The Atlantic.
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