Former All Black Campbell Johnstone and his groom Ben Thomson made the grandest of entrances for their wedding ceremony at The Flaxmill in Oxford. The pair were choppered in by none other than rugby legend Richie McCaw.
“Richie did this really steep loop around the property and I lost my stomach a bit,” laughs Ben. “Then he landed and we got out. Our parents congratulated us, people swarmed to take photos, then the wedding kind of kicked off from there.”
Campbell, 44, and Ben, 37, admit the ceremony wasn’t exactly traditional. Firstly, the 165 guests, who had come from all over the globe to celebrate the couple, were met with a voting station: Should the grooms’ last names be Johnstone or Thomson?
The next and certainly most shocking bombshell of all was the revelation that the grooms wed secretly back in October.
NZ Herald
