Jacinda Ardern puts her wedding on hold as NZ moves into red traffic light setting

Sunday, 23 January 2022

One of the last points Prime Minster Jacinda Ardern, seen here with fiancé Clarke Gayford, touched on during Sunday’s press conference was that under the red light in the Covid-19 Protection Framework her own upcoming wedding would not go ahead.

Tighter gathering rules under the newly implemented nationwide red light in the Covid-19 Protection Framework will impact the country’s most high-profile upcoming wedding.

The irony was that it was the prime minister who had to make the final call on a decision to clamp down on Omicron variant spread, and it was her big day that had to be put on hold, like so many other plans of everyday New Zealanders.

Jacinda Ardern was circumspect about the turn of events saying “such is life” and many other people had suffered much worse affects from the pandemic than a wedding disruption.

“My wedding will not be going ahead, but I just join many other New Zealanders who have had an experience like that as a result of the pandemic.

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“And to anyone who’s caught up in that scenario, I’m so sorry, but we’re all so resilient and I know we understand that we’re doing this for one another.”

“I am no different to… thousands of other New Zealanders who have had much more devastating impacts felt by the pandemic.”

Ardern and fiancé Clarke Gayford planned to get married over the summer, though she had not released any details of when or where.