The story behind our Online Wedding!
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- čas přidán 28. 05. 2023
- Hey guys! In this video, we will share with you our love story and how we met each other way back in 2016. Let us share with y’all our experiences as Fil-American couple, the struggles that we encountered and how we got through it all, and how we made our relationship stronger in the past 7 years.
We’d really appreciate you watching our first ever ‘How we Met’ vlog! My husband and I put a lot of effort on this one, we even included a lot of ‘never before seen’ pictures and videos.
We wanna thank you all in advance for the love and support, guys!❤️
#howwemet #filamcouple #genderreveal
Awesome overview on how you two met and your journey to life-long happiness!
Thanks as always Mark! Appreciate you watching sir!
❤ Wonderful story! Thank you for sharing😍😇
Our pleasure Jere! Thanks for watching brother!
Beautiful story . I met my asawa in London UK . We’ve been together 11 years . Married 9 years this July . She changed my life for the better and I’m very grateful for that .we’re here in the Philippines right now to celebrate my asawas birthday with her family . I love it here can’t wait to retire here for good in Bataan 😊
Thanks for sharing Brian, always good to hear success stories brother! Enjoy the Philippines sir, we are missing it, but will return soon.
Congratulations Rick and Jen on the addition to the family. I hope and pray for everything good for all of the Baker Family. John J.
Thanks John! All is good here, hoping the same for you brother!
Great love story and very open and honest sharing how you two met. First time hearing about an Online wedding, how cool is that. Just saw that this video was exactly one year from today, so glad we found your channel now onto to the next one.
Thank you Jim and Ghen! Appreciate your kind words.
Fantastic story with lots of similarities to me and my wife just 15 years earlier. Lots of love and respect to all families 👍🏻🙏🏻❤️
I knew we picked a good mentor Charles! Back at 'ya sir!
@@rickbaker0217 Honored to be your fellow American 🇺🇸 Military Veteran Brother and CZcams friend 👍🏻💪🏻🙏🏻❤️😎🫵🏻
Great story. Congratulations! 🎉
Thanks for watching!
Quite a story, full of ups and downs...
Congrats on pulling it all together, and Holy Cow congrats too on the baby in the oven!
You two look so happy and peaceful...Nice that the family name will carry on...
Father at 60, not unheard of, but will be more of making it work, but you'll be fine...
Perfection in imperfection...Thanks for sharing...
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Thanks for watching and thank you for the kind words. Imperfection is my mantra, but always striving to do better!
Congrats to both of you. Wishing you both the best.
Thanks again Jimmy! Life is indeed a blessing. Best to you and yours!
Wow congrats both, I wish you a happy family
Thank you and thanks for watching!
Thank you for sharing your life and more importantly CONGRATULATIONS on the new baby boy. My brothers and I, no sisters, were known as the Baker Boys. Looks like the Baker name lives on! God bless!
Thanks for the congrats! And yes, my parents are pretty stoked to know that our name lives on for another generation ❤. You don't happen to be related to any Bakers from the Kaufman, Tx. area?
Forgive me Eric if you have already told me where your family hales from. Just curious to know if we have a familial connection!
God bless you both. Thanks for sharing.
Thought it was worth sharing brother. Appreciate you watching!
Bro, I tell you. I get so happy for you watching your experiences. You truly are a blessed man
Thank you Lenny! I agree with you, I truly feel blessed brother!
@@rickbaker0217 btw, I watched your video of your wife going through Visa process. You said there were docs that needed to be uploaded that the NVC didn’t tell you. Do you still know what those docs are? What site do you upload all the docs to?
Thank you for sharing your amazing story. Congratulations 🍾 🥂 on having your first baby boy/grandson within the Baker's family 😊 May the Lord continue to shower his blessings on your family.
Appreciate you watching! No pressure on him at all for being the only boy . Thank you for the kind comments!
Congratulations guys on the baby
Thank you David!
I LOVE how she looks at you near the end of the video and how you both hold hands for much of the video 💜💜
We do a lot of hand holding for sure! Appreciate the kind comments!
@@rickbaker0217 my heart loves that, to me it’s a beautiful thing.
Great Love Story. Thanks for sharing your journey. We look forward to seeing your channel grow and your life and family prosper. We can't wait for your baby son, Benjamin William Baker, to arrive and see how he grows in the Philippines. Take Care and God Bless.
Funny you should say that. I didn't realize just how interesting it was till I made the vlog and then sat down with my wife and watched it. No way all that happened by chance. God had to be involved and I am glad he was!
Great story. Congratulations on future mini-you.
Thanks Enrique, appreciate you!
What a beautiful story…😀
100% mate. All the best to you and family.
Thanks brother!
Congrats to you guys
Thank you sir! Pretty stoked about it..
Lovely Story from a Lovely Couple-Congrats on the Baby Boy ..
Thank you ❤
Astig Brad ❤
thank you brader! 🙂
Congratulations!
Thanks brother!
Great story! Thanks for sharing. All the best on your journey together
Thank you so much and appreciate you watching!
Great story....Congratulations to you both and best wishes. You hit the lottery my friend....she's absolutely beautiful.
I too had 2x knee replacements....looking back Id do it again. The lifesavers are my grabber & sock rig. Best of luck with the baby.
Thanks brother, yes, beautiful inside and out! Biggest issues I have are if I take more than 10,000 steps in a day, it's usually a bad day. Also getting down and up from the floor is a major challenge. Appreciate you watching!
@@rickbaker0217 I hear you …. Low chairs are a killer. Step’s aren’t the problem. I had my surgery November 2020. Did p/t for 6 months
Nice. Thanks for sharing. As a new viewer, I say congratulations. By now your son is a year or so old. Hope all is well.
Did you shoot the video in Texas?
Appreciate you sir! Soon to be 11 months on 6 August! He is growing up so fast, but I am getting to see it all!
I have been watching some of your videos today and really liked them and the story you tell. I was wondering if you would recommend a way to get in touch with gilrs from the Philippines?
Can't say I am an expert in that area, but I met Jenn on a website called Filipina Cupid. We stopped using that platform after we met, as I was inundated with messages from other ladies and I really just wanted to get to know here better. Eventually I came to visit here and that led to a 5 year long distance relationship. I suppose if I were to do this now as an already retired person, I might just come here to travel and see the country. I would think that it would be better to meet someone in their own environment. Hope that helps!
God bless you and family.
Thank you Dennis, appreciate you watching brother!
The Baker buffet bandit baby boy. Lol 😆 So happy for youns.
Love that . I'm pretty sure he will inherit a love for buffets from his Momma!
Very nice ! Who sings in the beginning, is that Brazilian song? I love it !
The song is La Promesa by Manga Corta
@@rickbaker0217 very nice, thanks,
Congrats Pars and Mars sa baby boy yahooo 🎉🎉🎉
Yes Mars, a Baker Boy is in the oven!
Hey guys, see there are alot of great Americans here in the Philippines 🤔🤗♥️
Not sure I would clump myself in the "Great" group, but I try to be honest and kind! Always good to have a British Brother watching our channel!
Love the story about at the buffet your Filipina will definitely set her empty plate in front of you. We are coming up on our 6 year anniversary but dating 2 years before, so about the same time.
Jen is a beautiful girl even in all your photos, but sitting on your Moms pouch she is just glowing as motherhood fits her.
Congratulations again
I’ve got about another 18 months before my retirement and final move to Subic with my lovely bride. Counting day by day.
Super kind words Mark! Always appreciate your comments. Yes, I agree. Pregnancy does wear well on her. I think I must be glowing to, but my glowing is on the inside . Congrats on the impending retirement brother! Let us know when you get here and we will have to get together at Texas Joe's!
Fun story.
Gets funnier by the day!
Days of Our Lives lol Good on you mate
Thanks sir Richard! Appreciate you watching.
I stayed in the Solaire hotel on my 1st trip to the Philippines august 2014
Jenn enjoyed working there, but gave it all up to hang out with me on a permanent basis ❤
@@rickbaker0217 it’s a lovely hotel I enjoyed my stay there
Rick, I heard that you recently got the pleasure of meeting one of best people on the planet, my Ate Gina. She met you and your wife at Barksdale. Your wife commented on how good Gina looks for being 58. Anyway, her husband is my best friend and we have known each other for nearly 30 years, serving at 2 bases together. Gina said it was great meeting you and both of you were extremely nice to everybody.
Hey Wes! It was a pleasure to meet Gina and hope to visit with her again when we return in January. Thanks for yours and her husbands service to our country brother 🙏. Please forgive this old retired Airman, but your name sounds so familiar to me. Have we met Wes? If you tell me we worked together at the 307th, I will just have to check it in 😩.
Great story. I may have missed it but how did you two initially meet? Was it on an online dating site or in the Philippines?
We initially met online and later in person in the Philippines.
That’s a great story. Congratulations again. What is your age gap and do you get any grief or disapproving looks. I’m 70 and my wife is 35 and while we don’t get any pushback here in the Philippines I think we will in the USA.
Thanks brother Marc! Well, I am 60 in about 5 months and Jenn just turned 33. Surprisingly enough, I haven't noticed any disapproving looks. I half expected to see some based on others experiences. But one thing I do know about my fellow Texans, they are just friendly folks and even if they find it strange, they are more likely to just keep it to themselves. Regardless, things like that don't phase me in the least. Most of my family have been very accepting of Jenn and Genesis and they are loving it here.
@@rickbaker0217 That’s great. We are moving to McKinney, TX on June 30, to start our new life in the USA.. My wife is very excited and I prefer life here but this move is for my wife and kids for the opportunities the US offers. I’m on SS and the kids, 7 & 9 will receive a little over $1,250 a month plus COLA’s until they graduate HS. We will spend most of that for a while remodeling the family home on Lubang Island. That’s why I was asking you about Genesis.
Hey, I was active duty Air Force, and I have been to the Philippines twice. Now after not being in the Philippines for many years, I have been writing a Filipina Girlfriend for a year, and before seeing your video, I was planning on surprising my girlfriend the same way! 😅 I also have a lot of injuries from the military, and my girlfriend works in a department store. So, I wonder about her getting off work too?!..Since we are both Veterans if you want another friend you got one!..
Thanks for your service and any veteran is already a brother of mine! Yes, it is difficult for them to be able to take time off. They have to be very careful as loosing their job is a real possibility here. They have more than enough young people that they have no issue booting an employee out the door and hiring another. As long as you are sensitive to that, ya'll should be able to work it out. On some of my visits, I just had to be ok with Jenn working her shift and then spending what time she could with me. It always worked out.
So im 70 percent va disability service connected ptsd..so i can get my medicine and care at the va in manila?
Only on your service connected disabilities brother. Manila is just a clinic so they will do your twice yearly checkups and send you your meds. Anything requiring surgery, etc., related to your disabilities, will have to be done out on the economy by way of the Foreign Medical Program, which you have to apply through Denver.
Thanks for sharing your story. There's one thing though that I'd like to clarify. I am wondring if the age gap was a problem with her parents?
That's a good question and I honestly thought they would have a problem with it. But surprisingly, they didn't. They absolutely adore Jenn and Genesis and they know I am happy, so that seems to be there focus.
@@rickbaker0217 that's great. and what about her parents? was the age gap a problem for them?
Interesting that so many vloggers say stay away from women who already have kids. And you made it work!
No marriage is easy brother, but when you really love the her, you are willing to fight to make it work. Thanks for watching!
Hello. May I ask which online marriage website facilitated your online wedding?
Hi Maria, yes, it was The Wedding People. But I am not sure they are still up and running post pandemic. If not, there should be others out there.
Sorry, this is my first video to watch of you guys hope it's ok to ask this. Where at in Texas are you?
It's absolutely ok to ask. I am from the Tyler, Texas area. That is where we were when we made that vlog. Thank you for watching!
She is such a beautiful woman, what a lucky guy.
Agreed sir!
Good video
Thank you Earl!
Congratulations…🎉
Thanks Walter!
Congratulations you two!!!! I have a question and a comment or two. My wife of 3 years this July has two children ages 7 and 9. When we get to the USA, soon I hope, I will file a SSA-4-BK to get my stepchildren Social Security Benefits which will pay about $1,250 each until they graduate High School, a lot of money. My question for you is do you qualify for additional retirement benefits for either Genesis or you? How about for the new Baby? I ask because I just happened to mention this to another CZcamsr who has a minor child and didn’t realize this was a Benefit. Long story short the amount is life changing especially if you collect at 62 because the children’s benefit is based on what your FRA Benefit so it effectively doubled his benefit including his wife’s benefit as a minor care giver.
My situation is a tad bit different. I have a Texas Educators pension and when I pass, Jenn and Genesis will receive nothing from it going forward. As a Texas Educator retiree, I am not eligible to draw on my Social Security, even though I am vested in it. But when I pass, and my pension stops, then my wife and dependents will be eligible for SS benefits. Additionally my military and disability both will provide benefits to Jenn, Genesis and our soon to come, Benjamin! Bottomline, they should be financially covered when I go to hang out with Jesus!
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Thanks for watching!
So, the arriving a day or two early, was that to verify/confirm there wasn’t another guy in the picture living there? That’s what I surmised, but could be wrong just a guess.
I have heard of people doing that, but honestly, I just like to surprise people . Nothing else even crossed my mind, but the positive was there was no one else unless she ran them out three days before my arrival 🤣.
Can you explain how did you became disabled ?
33 years of military service, 18 of which were in combat units, takes a toll on the body. To give you more detail would take several vlogs, but somethings I just don't care to share with the world. Hope you can understand!
Oh I had to laugh you stayed at the same holiday inn in Singapore as we did In Little India. I had an assignment at the time in 2019 in Delhi India and we took vacation so I could take my wife for her first trip to Singapore. As we would ride the metro in Singapore they announced the stops in Chinese which my wife can speak. Every time they announced the stop for little India my wife would say, no it’s not little India it’s better India because as you experienced everything in Singapore is clean.
Ha, yes, so true. It is better than the real place. But, just as crowded! Really enjoyed our time there and the food was awesome! Small world Mark!
Nobody advised you for a 90 day fiancee visa ?
Never even crossed my mind since I had planned to retire in the Philippines all along. So, we went the route we thought was best.
My ex-husband is a womanizer he’s a foreigner also…hope his relationship lasts with his mistress😊
There are still good people out there Cherry. We wish you nothing but the best going forward. Appreciate you watching!
Looks like grandpa and his granddaughter....lol..😅
Well, I am a grandpa, but I don't have any grandchildren anywhere near 33 years old. Thank God
He actually looks young for his age!
@mariaparreb NOT REALLY. GET YOUR EYES TESTED.
@@rickbaker0217da li bi voleo da ti unuka ili cerka zivi sa likom tvojih godina?izvini ali meni je to bolesno😡