Kiwi bride’s emotional wedding ‘I WOULDN’T LET MY BRAIN TUMOURS RUIN MY BIG DAY!’
Planning a wedding is stressful enough without the added panic of a pandemic, but it’s been an even rockier road down the aisle for Rotorua bride Cherie Waterhouse, who was last year diagnosed with two brain tumours just before her big day.
That health crisis meant postponing their wedding in November, but last month, administrator Cherie, 40, and her partner Phil Gaffaney, 43, a heat-pump technician from Hamilton, finally tied the knot in a rustic, romantic ceremony at Te Miro Woolshed in the heart of the Waikato.
Cherie is still recovering from her second round of brain surgery and growing out her shaved hair from
