The wedding coordinator of the highly publicized royal wedding of Dingdon Dantes and Marian Rivera, Teena Barretto, revealed to the media that the Kapuso actor, Dingdong Dantes “paid for the wedding.” The statement made by Teena Barretto came out when some rumors surfaced online that the actor did not pay for his wedding but his various sponsors.
Teena Barretto noted that it was not a cheap wedding, she took to her social media account “toe end all speculation and wrong assumptions” about the wedding ceremony which was held at the Immaculate Concepcion Cathedral in Cubao, Quezon City last December 30, 2014.
Most netizens were entertained by the celebrity wedding of Dingdong Dantes and Marian Rivera but some of them criticize their wedding which, the couple received criticism for what some feel is a display of extravagance amid poverty situation in the country.
There are netizens who even accused the couple of not spending their won money for the special occasion, claiming that the event was supposedly sponsored by different people.
According to the wedding coordinator, while some sponsors were gaciously accepted, most of them were politely decline, the amount of sponsorship/xdeal is not even 5% of the total wedding cost paid by the groom, Dingdong Dantes.