Here's a lovely story that just featured in our Nelson newspaper. We just had to share it with you as we can proudly report that the young couple chose us for their wedding bands.

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Mum's the word for Nelson newlyweds
06 February 2006
By BETH CATLEY



BRIDE GROOMED: Best man Simon Moodie, left, and marriage celebrant and mother of the bride Rossi King-Turner share a joke as bride and groom Henry Dillon and Petra Evans wipe away tears during their wedding at the Boathouse on Saturday.
MARTIN DE RUYTER/Nelson Mail

Marriage celebrant Rossi King-Turner was nervous she might return to her old habit of crying at weddings when she performed her daughter's ceremony.

"I used to bawl at weddings but since being a celebrant I don't, but I'm told I might today," she said half an hour before the ceremony.

But she needn't have worried, as it was her daughter Petra Evans and groom Henry Dillon who succumbed to tears during the ceremony at Wakefield Quay's Boathouse on Saturday.

Mrs King-Turner had been a celebrant for 10 years, and said she was no more nervous performing her youngest daughter's wedding than any other, but was expecting it to be more challenging.

"I'm certainly a lot busier than usual because I have been down here, and back and forth."

Her only fashion concession to her mother-of-the-bride status was a hat, which she had never worn to a wedding before, she said.

Marrying off her daughter was a "relief", she joked.

"I can joke and say it's lovely to see the back of her ... because her gown is beautiful down the back."

The ceremony itself was full of surprises with the family dog taking pride of place next to one of the bridesmaids as she walked down the aisle.

Mrs King-Turner's older daughter Pipi-Ayesha - a trained aerialist - entertained guests with a display later in the evening, dropping petals from on high.