Personally, Holy week = long vacation, that's about it... Buti nga may cable na coz nung bata ako walang cable puros religious shows lang nasa TV...
I got married both sa civil and church, but for me, the former is for legality, the latter is for formality... Neither of them are more important than the fact that I can now live with the one I love...
Xmas = Great time for kids... and gastos hehe... But it is a special time of the year if you're in the Phil coz people are just super duper extra nice to everybody... Which is a good thing. But the fact that people goes back to the way they normally are after a couple of days shows you the shallowness of Xmas.