Love is a journey BEN & KATE’S FAIRYTALE WEDDING
‘It’s my destiny, having my children and marrying Kate’
It was a romantic moment on a boat trip on Rotorua’s Lake Tarawera when Shortland Street actor Ben Mitchell finally popped the question to Kate McMahon five years ago.
Their lovely young daughters Mila and Sofia were with them, and after a day stopping at different bays, Ben told his long-term love there was one more surprise, before turning off the engine and pulling out a diamond ring. Then he asked her to marry him.
“It was really special,” recalls Kate, who gave birth to their son Nico almost two years ago. “We’d just had the time of our life, picnicking and swimming in natural hot-spring pools on my favourite kind of day, with blue skies.”
Fast forward to Saturday, March 7, at Cheltenham Beach in Auckland’s Devonport, and the sky is the same picture-perfect blue,
