When Kiwi basketball star Alex Pledger and his wife, celebrity stylist Bailee Wilson-Pledger, planned their first wedding in 2021, they refused to let the uncertainty of lockdowns or the former Tall Black’s terrifying cancer diagnosis stop them hosting their emotional vineyard nuptials in Central Otago.
And when, two years later, the pair decided to celebrate the athlete’s recovery from cancer with a shotgun second ceremony at the Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas on 7 November, nothing could stop them this time either – not even a delayed flight.
When airline staff at Auckland Airport spotted Bailee’s garment bag with “Brides by Donna Rae” emblazoned on it, she and Alex, 36, were rushed onto a different plane headed for the US, where Bailee, 35, was due
