{"id":478930,"date":"2026-06-15T20:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T20:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/478930\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T20:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T20:25:09","slug":"football-ferns-star-michaela-foster-marries-partner-chelsea-in-waikato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/478930\/","title":{"rendered":"Football Ferns star Michaela Foster marries partner Chelsea in Waikato"},"content":{"rendered":"

Their looks were topped off with trendy, black narrow sunglasses.<\/p>\n

One photograph shows the newlyweds beaming while waving their bouquets of powder blue roses, surrounded by dried cream-coloured ferns.<\/p>\n

Another captures them toasting champagne while seated snuggled on a leather sofa.<\/p>\n

The couple became engaged in 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe couple were engaged in 2022.<\/p>\n

At the time, Michaela shared a photograph of the couple showing off their engagement rings, captioned: \u201cAmore, forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michaela is the daughter of former All Blacks coach Ian Foster<\/a>, who previously told the Herald he was \u201creally proud\u201d of her football achievements and determination to forge her own path in the sport.<\/p>\n

\"NewlywedsNewlyweds Michaela and Chelsea Foster. Photo \/ @michaelaleighfoster<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s chasing her dreams, she\u2019s shown a lot of ambition to make it in soccer and this is just another step for her,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Michaela has represented New Zealand at youth and senior level, including selection for the Football Ferns squads at the 2023 FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup<\/a> and the 2024 Paris Olympics<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Their looks were topped off with trendy, black narrow sunglasses. One photograph shows the newlyweds beaming while waving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[32322,168,39307,10541,5213,78024,71,78,21418,9851,9610,62033,88184,111,139,69,1642,5502,254,13660,213,2737,165,1524],"class_list":["post-478930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-backyard","tag-ceremony","tag-chelsea","tag-ferns","tag-football","tag-foster","tag-from","tag-in","tag-intimate","tag-longtime","tag-married","tag-marries","tag-michaela","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-online","tag-partner","tag-photos","tag-sharing","tag-sports","tag-star","tag-their","tag-waikato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478930","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=478930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}