{"id":174832,"date":"2025-12-09T04:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T04:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/174832\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T04:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T04:53:10","slug":"all-black-tamaiti-williams-celebrates-marriage-to-alice-weir-in-christchurch-garden-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/174832\/","title":{"rendered":"All Black Tamaiti Williams celebrates marriage to Alice Weir in Christchurch garden wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the ceremony, guests including All Blacks Ethan de Groot and Caleb Clarke, transitioned to a reception held in a large marquee on the property\u2019s lawn. <\/p>\n

A decadent menu featured k\u014dura, an espresso martini tower and a slab cake made by Eve Thomas, who is married to Hurricanes winger Ngane Punivai. <\/p>\n

Photographer Susannah Blatchford said it was \u201ca privilege to photograph these wee legends\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know when them shoes come off it\u2019s been one heck of a day and wow, was it ever! The atmosphere was on fire, the best people, the best energy.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the comments on the post, bride Alice said \u201cAbsolutely adore these photos\ud83d\ude0dThe best day ever!\u201c.<\/p>\n

Last year, the couple welcomed a daughter, Kaea Kate Williams who was born more than three months early<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sharing a picture of the premature baby, Williams wrote at the time; \u201cKaea came early at 27 weeks and only weighed 1.4 pounds. Alice and baby are doing really well! But we have a long road ahead!\u201d.<\/p>\n

Williams, 25, <\/a>made his provincial rugby debut for Canterbury in 2020 and earned selection for the M\u0101ori All Blacks that same year. He has made 27 appearances for the All Blacks.<\/p>\n

In August, Williams re-signed with New Zealand Rugby,<\/a> the Crusaders, and Canterbury Rugby through to the end of 2029.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the ceremony, guests including All Blacks Ethan de Groot and Caleb Clarke, transitioned to a reception held…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3359,5263,7022,7573,9632,4487,8589,78,636,111,139,69,213,112307,48457,61,15315,112306,1842,13971,102],"class_list":["post-174832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-alice","tag-all","tag-black","tag-celebrated","tag-celebrates","tag-christchurch","tag-garden","tag-in","tag-marriage","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports","tag-sunsoaked","tag-tamaiti","tag-to","tag-wedding","tag-weir","tag-wife","tag-williams","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}