"Ladies and gentlemen, let's all welcome our lovely debutante! Ms. Ellise Albrecht Windsor!" Ellise slowly descends from the grand staircase to the ballroom in her magnificent Monique Lhuillier gown. With so many gowns to choose from different couture houses, her mother decided to choose a gown based on the affinity of childhood memories. She found out during her gown fitting that Monique Lhuillier, is a high school classmate of her mother and Aunt Joy way back from Cebu city, an island somewhere in the Philippines. The thought that her mother personally picked the dress for her eighteenth birthday warms Ellise heart. She focuses her emotion on those heartwarming feelings and controls her facial emotion, careful not to show the nervousness she feels at the back of her mind on what will g

