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Gian Magdangal and Lara Maigue

Leah C. Salterio

<div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1756972632571IMG_1199.jpeg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/>Altar-bound couple Gian Magdangal and Lara Maigue. Leah SalterioMANILA -- After four years together, music couple Gian Magdangal and Lara Maigue are taking their relationship to the next level as they prepare to tie the knot this October.</div>Magdangal proposed to Maigue after she returned home from Paris, France, where she attended the wedding of her brother last May. She returned home in mid-June after being away from three weeks.When Maigue arrived in Manila, the couple booked a dinner outside. “We had a post-celebration of her birthday,” Magdangal recalled. “Her birthday was June and we were not able to celebrate her birthday together. So we had dinner.” &quot;Lara was away for three weeks, nearly a month. Her whole time in Paris, I really missed her a lot. That was the only time we were apart from each other. I had this realization that I cannot live without her anymore,&quot; he added.That night, Magdangal seized the moment and asked for her hand in marriage.Maigue was not expecting the proposal. “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.”Ideally, the couple wanted to get married abroad. “But we realized, his parents are old and not that mobile anymore to travel abroad,” said Maigue. “So he said, ‘Let’s just do the wedding here.’ We are such a chill couple. We don’t really plan too much.”Magdangal 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, Maigue insisted there was no way Magdangal 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,” Maigue recalled. “He said, ‘So is it a yes?’ He was kneeling I front of me. He was waiting for my answer.” Finally, Maigue 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 a hundred percent 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.&quot; Maigue 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,” Maigue said.Her brother married last year and held the main celebration this year in Paris, where he is 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,” Maigue 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 Magdangal.They have released their original composition, “Liyab,” now out on Spotify and soon, “If You Only Knew (How Much I Love You),” which they have already recorded. They plan to sing the song in their October wedding.<div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1756972741611IMG_1194.jpeg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/>Gian Magdangal and Lara Maigue with David Benoit (center), concert producer Jessie Cambosa of DMC Philippines (extreme left) and Camille Cambosa (rightmost). Leah SalterioThe couple will be the special guests at the concert of jazz pianist David Benoit on September 6, Saturday, at the Newport Performing Arts Theater. They are both excited to share the stage with the renowned jazz artists and render his songs in the one-night concert.</div>

After four years together, music couple Gian Magdangal and Lara Maigue are taking their relationship to the next level as they prepare to tie the knot this October.

After four years together, music couple Gian Magdangal and Lara Maigue are taking their relationship to the next level as they prepare to tie the knot this October.

Gian Magdangal and Lara Maigue to tie the knot this October

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Gian Magdangal and Lara Maigue to tie the knot this October

Leah C. Salterio

Published Sep 04, 2025 04:09 PM PHT

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