Bali wedding for Christian & Kat

Indonesia has a special spot in 37-year-old Christian Bautista’s heart because he’s looked up to as a superstar in that country. No wonder when Christian decided to wed Kat Ramnani last Saturday, Nov. 17 (which happened to be their third anniversary as sweethearts), he wanted it to be Bali.

As the more than 80 invited guests from around the world cheer them right on, Christian Bautista and Kat Ramnani seal it with a kiss at their wedding in Bali, Indonesia, last Saturday, Nov. 17

Kat, 34, is a Globe Telecom director strategy and program management for the content business. She graduated with a Business Marketing & Communications degree from Santa Clara University, a private Jesuit university in Silicon Valley, California, and worked in the US for Google and then at Apple and Facebook before she came home and joined Globe. She’s one-fourth Filipino, one-fourth American, one-fourth Irish and one-fourth Indian.

Christian and Kat at the Glass House reception.

Christian and Kat met through a common friend in an Escape Room (in Breakout Paragon Plaza, a recreation center in Mandaluyong City), and started going steady on Nov. 18, 2015. Christian proposed to Kat on Oct. 30 last year at the cliffs of Santorini, the ancient sites of Athens.

Kat dedicates to Christian a song she practiced secretly for four months

The wedding was ushered in on Friday, Nov. 16, with a welcome dinner in a Balinese-Indian-themed party at the Tirtha Wedding Place located on a cliff overlooking the Indian Ocean, with around 80 family members and few close friends and colleagues who flew from India, England, Manila, Jakarta, Singapore, USA and Korea. The evening culminated with a speech by Christian’s parents Ebert and Jo Bautista and Kat’s sister Ariana

The couple during the welcome dinner

For the wedding proper the next day at around 4 p.m., the  guests were brought to the Tirtha Chapel. The bride wore an Inbal Dror gown and the groom a suit by Francis Libiran (whose husband, Christian Mark Jacobs of Naked Foodie, did the donuts-shaped cake). Some of the attendees were Globe executives Ernest Cu, Jo Caliro, Albert de Larrazabal; Cris Villonco and husband Paolo Valderrama; singers Erik Santos, Mark Bautista, Sam Concepcion; and Indonesian superstar Bunga Citra Leatari and husband soap star Ashraff Sinclaire.

The groom with Christian Mark Jacobs of Naked Foodie (who sponsored the donutshaped wedding cake), Indonesian superstar Bunga Citra Leatari with husband soap star Ashraff Cinclair, and Christian’s manager Carlo Orosa

Guests were treated to a four-course fine dining menu and entertainment hosted by Quark Henares and Mike Blanding (director of Corporate Responsibility for InterContinental Hotels Group). Erik sang The Last Time I’ll Fall in Love, Mark Bautista Just The Way You Look Tonight and Sam A Little More Time With You.

Cris Villonco at the welcome dinner

Kat surprised Christian with a song she had been practicing secretly for four months.  

The couple will have their honeymon in Africa next year.

At the reception, Erik Santos (above photo) sings for the couple and so does Sam Concepcion (below photo). Mark Bautista also sang.