The ceremony is just a formality. What is more important is the love and respect the couple have for each other. Now in both ceremonies, the most important part (that affects your name, status and everything else on paper) is the signing of the marriage contract. Regardless of whether you pay P300 to the Clerk of Court for a civil wedding or you pay P500k for a grand church wedding, the paper you sign is the same. A client once asked me why it costs so much to have an annulment. I asked him how much he spent on his wedding and he said P300k. So I told him that you're willing to spend that much on something that anybody can easily get into yet you scrimp on trying to get out of one that isn't even supposed to be allowed by law? Funny irony isn't it.