On the morning of their wedding in 2017, Lissy and Rudi Robinson-Cole stood on the verandah of their gorgeous Ōtāhuhu villa in Auckland, pledging their life together would be filled with love and creativity.
They had crafted lanterns and table decorations for their nuptials, planned menus and cooked food for whānau, arranged flowers, and stencilled the word LOVE in giant letters across a huge wooden fence.
“We were totally in the zone getting ready for the wedding, when Lissy comes up and says, ‘Come on, come on, we have to go and pray, and put out to the universe that we are going to be using our creativity to work together full-time,’” Rudi recalls. “We knew that we worked really well together