TWO HEARTS, ONE LOVE, & COUNTLESS ADVENTURES

from Wairarapa Weddings 2023

FLOWERS & THINGS

After the planning, stress, emotions, talking, eating, and dancing all associated with your big day, taking a week or a month out for a honeymoon often sounds delightful for a newly committed couple. It can give you an opportunity to review your wedding day and consolidate the next steps you’re going to take together into the future. You can recharge your batteries.

And with the world accessible again, you’ll be able to find something perfect to suit all honeymoon interests and budgets.

If your preference is to remain in Aotearoa New Zealand for your honeymoon, you could be lured by the idea of one of our luxury lodges known for their natural beauty, breathtaking views, and activities such as horseback riding, sea kayaking, fly fishing, animal encounters, golfing and more. Wairarapa even boasts some of these lodges, and you are welcome to arrive by helicopter.

If it is star gazing, kiwi spotting, and native bush walking you’re after, you could take a trip to Rakiura Stewart Island and stay in a luxury PurePod or hide away in one of Wairarapa’s boutique offerings while scheduling an experience at Pūkaha.

Or you might be tempted by seven days and nights taking in the canals, storefronts, antiquities, and stunning landscapes of Italy, in which case, Lynne Carlyon from Masterton’s NZ Travel Brokers can help you. She can also offer you a 21-day Passage to India experience, an opportunity to retrace Marco Polo’s voyage from Bangkok to Athens, or a warm and relaxing retreat at a Pacific Island. For luxury African travel, talk to Kutwelo about a honeymoon of a lifetime.

Two hearts, one love, and countless adventures.

PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY

Carterton Events Centre

SATURDAY 26 AUGUST

7PM SUPPER INCLUDED DOORS OPEN AT 6:15PM BAR AVAILABLE

Tickets On Sale Now

Tickets can be purchased from Evans of Masterton for $30 (cash only) OR

Online at Carterton Events Centre for $30 + fees

It is our great pleasure to be able to welcome you to the 53rd Wairarapa Bride of the Year. This year’s event is a chance for us to celebrate the wedding industry of Wairarapa, to highlight the awesome providers and businesses that make the weddings happen, celebrate beautiful weddings, and of course raise funds for Wairarapa Plunket.

We are thrilled that last year’s competition raised enough money for the purchase of a sink and vanity for their Masterton o ces. Plunket plays such a signi cant role in the development of the health and wellbeing of children and their whanau during those crucial early years. Many of our committee members have been lucky enough to have been supported by Plunket in our own childhoods, and now with children of our own. It’s a privilege to bring you this event to give back to Wairarapa Plunket.

This year, Wairarapa Bride of the Year is open to brides who were married in Wairarapa between 1ST July 2022 and

30TH June 2023. We look forward to returning to Carterton Events Centre for the third year, to celebrate our entrants.

The event this year has been organised by a committee of volunteers with strong local ties, including four previous Bride of the Year entrants. Renee, Ellie, Wendy, Shelley, Mel, Stacey, Carolyn and Eve are thrilled to be able to put together this event.

Our judges this year are Sarah Bellman, Esther Bunning Robyn Cherry-Campbell, and Bronwyn Wood.

Their judging criteria for the entrants are: rst impression, sense of con dence, posture and stance, connection to the audience, dress, and overall look. There are also two awards for audience choice, and brides’ choice.

To all our providers, thank you for your ongoing support for this fantastic event. To our entrants, we hope you really enjoy reliving your big day. And thank you all for your ongoing support of this fantastic fundraiser for Wairarapa Plunket.