The National Party's Rodney candidate Mark Mitchell married his sweetheart Peggy Bourne in Orewa yesterday afternoon.
It was understood the couple signed a deal with Woman's Day magazine believed to involve payment plus extras including free hair styling and make-up for Bourne.
The bride was once married to late New Zealand rally champion Possum Bourne, who died 12 days after a head-on crash in 2003. He had been hit by a driver who was on the wrong side of the road on Good Friday that year.
Mitchell, a North Shore local and former policeman, was once stabbed with a samurai sword. After retiring from the police force in 2003, he worked with a number of businesses and with the World Economic Forum.
Rodney is regarded as one of the safest National Party seats. The incumbent, Lockwood Smith, won by a 15,635 vote landslide in the last election.
