Now that the missing bride-to-be is back home, is her wedding still pushing through?

With Sherra de Juan, the bride-to-be who went missing on Dec. 10, back home, her fiancé is sharing news about their wedding. 

In a recent interview with ABS CBN News, Mark Arjay Reyes said that while their nuptials are pushing through, he is in no rush to set another date soon. 

They were supposed to get married on Dec. 14, 2025. 

"Unang yakap niya sa akin itong sa may Pangasinan, nag-sorry siya, sabi niya, hindi na siya umabot. Sabi ko, ''Wag mo isipin 'yun. 'Wag mong isipin 'yung kasal. Ang priority is ikaw,'" Reyes said. 

While the couple was en route back to Quezon City with members of the Quezon City Police Department, officers asked de Juan whether she wanted to still get married. 

"Itong mga kapulisan natin, tinatanong siya, 'Tuloy pa ba 'yung kasal?' Sabi niya, 'Opo, tuloy 'yung kasal," Reyes continued.

He added that he didn't want to pressure his fiancée. His priority was for de Juan to recover, no matter how long it would take.

For now, de Juan is taking her time recovering from her experience, and her family is not rushing her. 

"Nagre-recover pa rin po siya. Pinagpapahinga namin. Pinapakain namin ng mga gusto niya para makabalik agad sa pangangatawan," Reyes said, adding that the family's focus now is for de Juan to rest. 

While the family still does not know details of what happened to de Juan during the weeks she was missing, they are not forcing her to share what transpired. 

"As of now, hindi namin fino-force na magdisclose si Sherra sa amin kung ano 'yung... naaalala niya," Reyes said. The family, he shared, is following de Juan's pace on the matter. 

Currently, the QCPD has not detected any evidence of a crime related to de Juan's disappearance. 

In the new year, Reyes hopes for their family to "start anew."

"Gusto namin na at least kahit papaano, itong magbabagong taon, makapag-celebrate muna po kami, ma-cherish namin 'yung pagkakataon na nakasama namin ulit si Sarah," Reyes said. 

Moving forward, he appealed to the media and the public to give their family privacy even as he thanked them, including the QCPD, for their role in spreading the word of de Juan's disappearance. 

"As a family, we are humbly requesting our media... we want our privacy. Ayaw na po namin na 'yung mga interviews namin magamit as, para makagawa ng mga kuwento-kuwento, speculations. Lahat ng information, hindi na namin ididisclose sa public," Reyes said. 

However, he also shared that the family would continue to help the police in their investigation of de Juan's disappearance in any way they can. 

Bride-to-be's disappearance

In the early afternoon of Dec. 10, de Juan messaged Reyes saying she was going to a mall in north Fairview to buy her wedding shoes and that she was leaving her phone at home to charge it. But she never made it home that night. 

What followed was a frenzied nationwide search that lasted almost three weeks, led by a special investigation team formed by the QCPD. 

On Dec. 29, police announced they located de Juan in Sison, Pangasinan, and that they were en route, with Reyes and de Juan's brother, to pick her up. 

The family was able to ring in the New Year all together.