The happy ZM courier guy ready to rush to the Auckland wedding 8.25AM: The same-sex couples marrying in Rotorua have vowed to love each other and there is now a pause in the proceedings awaiting the arrival of the marriage licenses which must be picked up from the Registry office and taken to the wedding venue for the legal party of the ceremony. Rachael Briscoe, who is marrying Jess Ives, says she is thrilled with her dress which was chosen by the two men who are also getting married in the dual ceremony. She has teamed her white dress with what she calls "big black bogan boots." She says she found it hard not to cry during the pair's statement of their vows. Meanwhile, in Auckland guests at the wedding of Tash Vitali and Melissa Ray are seated and the ceremony at the Unitarian Church on Ponsonby Road has started. A helmeted representative of the ZM network was one of the first out the door of the downtown registry office with Vitali and Ray's marriage license and was immediately down the lift, onto his motorcycle and off to the Ponsonby Road Unitarian Church.
Credit: GayNZ.com Daily News staff
First published: Monday, 19th August 2013 - 8:23am