NZ Herald 17 July 2014
New Zealand’s first legally married same-sex couple is believed to have split.
Former Football Ferns player Melissa Ray and sales representative Natasha (Tash) Vitali won a ZM Radio competition to have an all-expenses-paid wedding in the Unitarian Church in Ponsonby at 8am on the day same-sex marriage became legal last August.
They went by horse-drawn carriage to a reception at the Cloud on the Auckland waterfront, followed by a honeymoon paid for by Tourism Fiji. But less than a year later, it seems to be all over.
A poem on Ms Vitali’s Facebook page yesterday read:
Drink it down, laugh it off,
Avoid the drama, take chances,
And never have regrets
Because at one point everything you did
Was exactly what you wanted.
There were no photos of Ms Ray on the page, which was later removed after the Herald made inquiries.
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