{"id":185832,"date":"2025-12-16T03:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T03:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/185832\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T03:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T03:14:07","slug":"national-mp-louise-upston-marries-long-time-partner-in-surprise-home-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/185832\/","title":{"rendered":"National MP Louise Upston marries long-time partner in surprise home wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forty-four members of their immediate family watched as the pair finally exchanged rings after 13 years together.<\/p>\n

\"LouiseLouise Upston (right) and Hamish Craig pictured taking their vows. Photo \/ Jakob Andrew<\/p>\n

\u201cWe decided we would go low-drama and just have our family when we got married and then we had two celebrants, both very close friends to us, which was nice,\u201d Upston said.<\/p>\n

\"LouiseLouise Upston (right) and Hamish Craig have been together for 13 years. Photo \/ Jakob Andrew<\/p>\n

Friends were surprised with the news when they joined the evening celebrations.<\/p>\n

\u201cNone of them knew that we were getting married, which was lovely, but it was a perfect day. Wouldn\u2019t have changed anything,\u201d Upston said.<\/p>\n

Her \u201cvery special\u201d wedding band has five diamonds to represent their five children.<\/p>\n

\"LouiseLouise Upston (right) has married her long-time partner Hamish Craig. Photo \/ Jakob Andrew<\/p>\n

The 54-year-old was previously married to Craig Upston, who she had two children with, Jess and Mac Upston, and has another son, Hamish, from a previous relationship.<\/p>\n

Upston shared a few snaps of her special day to social media, writing that she and Craig \u201ccouldn\u2019t be happier!\u201d<\/p>\n

She also got the support of her National Party, who shared her post with the caption \u201cCongratulations Louise Upston MP and Hamish! \ud83d\udc99\u201c.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forty-four members of their immediate family watched as the pair finally exchanged rings after 13 years together. Louise…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[39107,168,1061,6650,1342,23899,42,1345,78,21418,9851,61812,9610,62033,6368,3556,43,5502,88,165,40,38,41,39,117204,15315],"class_list":["post-185832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-attended","tag-ceremony","tag-children","tag-craig","tag-five","tag-hamish","tag-headlines","tag-home","tag-in","tag-intimate","tag-longtime","tag-louise","tag-married","tag-marries","tag-mp","tag-national","tag-news","tag-partner","tag-surprise","tag-their","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-upston","tag-wedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185832","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=185832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}