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Speaker 1: It looks like changes arrived in the marriage market as well,

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Speaker 1: more and more of us apparently eloping. So what's driving

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Speaker 1: this New Zealand dream wedding? Zoner Donna Docky is with

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Speaker 1: us on this, Donna, very good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 1: Isn't elopement different from what I think it is? Is

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Speaker 1: an elopement to me is two people who just sitting

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Speaker 1: there having a cup of coffee one day and going,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, let's bugger off to Belle Cluther

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Speaker 1: and get married. And so it's not an event per

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Speaker 1: se or has that changed?

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Speaker 2: It's changing, right, So what is it now today? Well

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Speaker 2: they're putting more thought into it. So they're now wanted

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Speaker 2: more adventure. So they will contact the wind Tennis say

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Speaker 2: look we want to Elope, can we go somewhere remarkable?

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Speaker 2: And we just planted and sometimes they'll have their mum

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Speaker 2: and dad. We do up to about six people for

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Speaker 2: the elightenments.

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Speaker 1: Why why is that called an elopement, not a wedding,

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Speaker 1: just a small wedding.

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Speaker 2: Honestly, I don't know. It's always been called elopement.

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Speaker 1: Is what's driving this? Is it money?

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Speaker 2: No? I think it was the COVID lockdown the pandemic.

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Speaker 2: People actually sat there and actually thought about their life

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Speaker 2: and what's really important, right, because that's when the changes

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Speaker 2: really hurt.

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Speaker 1: And having one hundred and twenty people, ninety eight of

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Speaker 1: whom you don't even know alike all that much. You

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Speaker 1: don't need that anymore in your life.

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Speaker 2: No, definitely, And they don't want people at their wedding.

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Speaker 2: They don't know. It's about the couple. It's about what

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Speaker 2: they're wanting today.

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Speaker 1: That's good. So you don't want your parents driving you. See,

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Speaker 1: you got this tricky thing. Did do some parents still

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Speaker 1: dip in or help out their daughter's wedding costs?

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Speaker 2: No? Not that I'm finding as the couple themselves. Ah.

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Speaker 1: So what about the other side of the equation when

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Speaker 1: you sat down during COVID as a couple and you went,

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Speaker 1: you know what, I'd rather travel. I'd rather have a

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Speaker 1: deposit for a house. I don't want it. Is that

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Speaker 1: driving it as well?

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Speaker 2: Definitely. We've had couples come from England over to New

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Speaker 2: Zealand and they have said that they can come over here,

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Speaker 2: having a lightment, a honeymoon, all their travel costs and

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Speaker 2: still have money left over for what it would cost

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Speaker 2: for a wedding back there.

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Speaker 1: So it's really at the end of the day, it

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Speaker 1: is about money, isn't it. And surrounding yourself with the

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Speaker 1: people you know and love as opposed to you know,

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Speaker 1: the wide How's it affected your business because I'm sure,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you'd rather organize a wedding for six thousand.

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Speaker 2: No. I love the personal wedding. You lose touch when

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Speaker 2: you have a large wedding. That's where I found personally,

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Speaker 2: That's why I do the small weddings. It's more intimate,

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Speaker 2: it's more fun, it's more stress free and relaxed, and

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Speaker 2: it's all about the couple.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, excellent. And is business generally booming or are the

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Speaker 1: couple's going down that next track, which is we don't

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Speaker 1: need to get married officially in any way, shape or

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Speaker 1: form at all. We just live together.

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Speaker 2: No business has fun to boom?

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Speaker 1: Good good, Well, I'm pleased to hear it, don't I

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Speaker 1: go well with that? Donna DOOHI who is the New

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