Andrew Watts (27) and Leah Crosby (29) joined their wedding
guests, many of them from Wales, yesterday, before their
nuptials in Dunedin today. Photo by Craig Baxter.
With their pre-nuptial plans hampered by an Icelandic
volcano and their welcome to Dunedin a sopping mess, Leah
Crosby and Andrew Watts hope today will be a nice day for a
Welsh wedding.
The Welsh boy and Dunedin girl met in Taupo five years ago
when he was travelling and she was home from the United
Kingdom for a friend's wedding.
They met again on the other side of the world and now live in
Cardiff, with their 3-year-old daughter Seren.
After her hen's party in Majorca had to be postponed for two
weeks, as volcanic ash clouds grounded planes, they arrived
in Dunedin in the wake of floods, to prepare for today's
nuptials.
Despite travelling 18,000km for the wedding, they could not
escape a Welsh influence, as 27 of their friends had come
with them and their priest and photographer are of Welsh
descent.
Along with whale watching in Kaikoura and skiing in
Queenstown, a post-wedding event high on the must-do list is
attending the final test match at Carisbrook on June 19, when
New Zealand takes on Wales.
Mr Watts said the trip was perfect preparation for next
year's Rugby World Cup.
He did not know which team would win, as both sides were
plagued by injury, but hoped it would go down in history, not
only as the last test at Carisbrook, but also as the first
time Wales had beaten New Zealand in New Zealand.
- ellie.constantine@odt.co.nz
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