Skip to content

Faces of the Day

Campbell (44) and Ben (37) admit the ceremony wasn’t exactly traditional.

Table of Contents

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

Latest

A Custody Battle Over Son’s Gender

A Custody Battle Over Son’s Gender

The father says the ruling is based on an interpretation of “gender dysphoria” that he rejects. He believes that serious medical questions, complex neurodevelopmental issues, and recorded concerns in medical records have been overlooked.

Members Public