After four years together, music couple Gian Magdangal and Lara Maigue are set to tie the knot this October.
Gian proposed to Lara last June after she returned home from Paris, France, to attend the wedding of her brother last May.
“Finally, we’re tying the knot,” Gian beamed. “Last June, Lara was away for three weeks, nearly a month. That was the only time we were apart from each other. I had this realization that I cannot live without her anymore.
So on the first night Lara returned, Gian seized the moment and asked for her hand in marriage. “Her whole time in Paris, I really missed her a lot.”
Lara was not expecting the proposal from Gian. “You should see my nails at that time,” she smilingly disclosed. “My nails were really ugly. The color was just half left. The polish was no longer nice. I never expected his proposal. I was very much surprised.”
“We had a post celebration of her birthday outside,” Gian shared. “Her birthday was June and we were not able to celebrate her birthday together. So we had dinner.”
Ideally, the couple wanted to get married out of the country. “But we realized, his parents are old and not that mobile anymore to travel abroad,” said Lara. “So he said, ‘Let’s just do the wedding here.’ We are such a chill couple. We don’t really plan too much.”
Gian himself also didn’t believe in a long engagement. “I was pondering to marry her since last year,” he said. “It just felt right to give her the ring when she arrived.
“I got the ring while she was away. I was always with her everywhere we went. We were always together. In work and in life.”
Meanwhile, Lara insisted there was no way Gian can keep anything from her. “We’ve been inseparable when we got together,” she said. “We were living in the same condo building but on different floors. There was no way he can keep anything from me.”
She couldn’t believe it when she saw the engagement ring and heard him propose. She was tongue-tied. “I couldn’t say yes right away,” Lara recalled. “He said, ‘So is it a yes?’ He was kneeling in front of me. He was waiting for my answer.”
Finally, Lara gave her affirmative answer. “When I started to realize that everything was real, that was when I started to cry,” she said. “Delayed reaction talaga. I was super shocked.
“Everybody knows that Gian has always been a bachelor for the longest time. For too long. We’ve discussed marriage in the past, but I just didn’t think he would be 100% into it already. So, I was just very surprised and I was crying more.
“I believed him to be really real this time. No one was there in the restaurant after dinner except us.”
Lara acknowledged both of them have been living a life where they are constantly onstage being seen by other people. “There were people who are always watching, so a proposal was really just in our memory,” she said.
Her brother first got married last year and just had the main event this year in Paris, where he is also based.
“We can’t call this sukob,” insisted Maigue. “The ceremony just happened this year. Everything fell into place for Gian and I, that’s why we are tying the knot.”
Not surprisingly, a baby will be in the planning stage soon after the wedding, according to the couple. “We want to make a trio already,” Lara smiled. “We always want a product of us both. We are going to pray for a baby soon.”
“We are going to be a greatest trio one day,” added Gian.
They have released their original composition, “Liyab,” now out on Spotify and soon, “If You Only Knew (How Much I Love You),” already recorded to be released, too. They plan to sing the song in their October wedding.
