Love conquers all: Filipino newlyweds share a kiss while knee-deep in floodwaters, as the country braces for a fresh deluge

When it's your big day, come rain or shine you have to make the best of it.
These Filipino newlyweds showed love conquers all when they pushed through with their scheduled wedding despite severe flooding that inundated wide areas of Manila and nine nearby provinces.
Ramoncito Campo and Hernelie Ruazol Campo were pictured sharing this touching kiss after they exchanged vows with water up to their knees in a Catholic church in the Filipino capital.

Love conquers all: Ramoncito Campo kisses his wife Hernelie Ruazol Campo on a flooded street on Wednesday during the aftermath of a monsoon that battered Manila, causing an estimated 66 deaths

For wet or for dry? Mr and Mrs Campo share a more passionate kiss in the flooded church where they were wed

They were pictured in the flooded church and nearby streets last wednesday, as the Philippines recovered from a tropical storm which left an estimated 66 people dead and affected a millions more.
To the traditional wedding vow of 'for better and for worse', the new Mr and Mrs Campo could have perhaps added their own promise, 'for wet or for dry'.
And if they had made that pledge the time may already come for it to be tested as officials have warned that a new storm has been spotted off the country's north-east which is expected to bolster monsoon rains.
Manila's weather agency says the tropical depression was whirling over the Pacific Ocean today with sustained winds of 55km (34 miles) per hour. It was about 750km (465 miles) from Aurora province.
It says the storm is unlikely hit land, but is expected to bring 'heavy to intense' monsoon rains over parts of northern Luzon island and central and southern provinces.

Desperate: Filipino rescuers dig for survivors after a landslide destroys four homes in Quezon City, north of the capital Manila

Heart-breaking: Rescue workers battled to reach a family buried beneath the mud

Deadly flooding: A man (left) uses a plastic container as a floating device to swim to higher ground during a flood in Marikina, Manila, while another holds his shoes aloft as he swims down a street

Clinging on: A family flee their flooded home with the help of a rubber boat as the downpour continues

Race against time: Rescuers and disaster management teams rushed to evacuate residents in low-lying areas of Manila

'Water-world': The head of the government's disaster response agency said half of Metropolitan Manila had been flooded

The expected deluges will hamper efforts to clean up after last weekend's lethal flooding, which sent 400,000 fleeing their homes with the rains only beginning to ease on Wednesday.
Officials in the Philippines said today they will mobilise thousands to clean up Manila as evacuees return to clear mud and debris that swamped their homes.
Civil defence chief Benito Ramos said that police, soldiers, coast guard personnel and military reservists will be used to help the city recover from its worst flooding since 2009.
Hundreds of volunteers who helped in rescue and relief work in the early days of the floods will also help in the clean-up.
The Office of Civil Defence said today the floods had left at least 66 people dead and affected up to 2.68 million people in Manila and nearby provinces, with more than 440,000 fleeing to evacuation centres.
'The mounds of garbage and muck are terrible,' Mr Ramos said. 'This is embarrassing to foreigners.'

Brave gesture: A man (left) wades up to his waist to bring food and hot drinks to people staying inside their flooded homes in Quezon City, while others (right) climb over a shop to reach their property

In search of safety: A man carries a little girl on his shoulders as they cross a flooded area in Quezon City, north of Manila

Submerged: A man carries his bike through a flooded street (left) while another waits for rescuers, perched on the roof of his house

Another worry: In Quezon City, this pig's owner wrapped it up in a raincoat in a bid to protect it from illness

Corazon Jimenez, general manager of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority, which is in charge of traffic management and rubbish disposal for the sprawling capital of 12 million, said part of the clean-up will involve collecting the garbage that has washed from creeks and rivers into Manila Bay.
'I can't describe this anymore. These are mountains of garbage,' she said.
Incessant rains from Sunday to Wednesday swelled rivers and creeks and overwhelmed drainage canals already clogged with rubbish, raising flood waters that at the peak submerged more than half of metropolitan Manila.

Timely arrival: Rescuers reach a man using a rubber dinghy and paddles as the deadly rains continue

Trapped: Motorists and passengers are stuck on the North Luzon Expressway as heavy rains continue in Valenzuela City, Manila

Saved: A flood victim talks to rescuers as she shelters under a huge umbrella

Social Welfare Secretary Dinky Soliman said authorities have already closed about 100 of 351 government-run shelters in the city as evacuees trickled home.
She said the government planned to relocate about half a million families in the capital, most of them living in 'danger zones' such as by river banks and under bridges.
'It can be done, but that would need a lot of help and a lot of political will from people involved,' she said.
She did not say how much the relocation would cost, but said funding was not a problem because of prudent spending by the government and anti-corruption measures.