When the Pacific Jemm isn't showing prime ministers a good time, it's helping marry Australia's same-sex couples. The luxury super yacht, moored in Queenstown, is part of a booming local wedding industry that welcomes hundreds of Aussies. Numbers have grown year on year, the Queenstown Wedding Association calculates. Combining a wedding with a destination holiday is also a drawcard for Australian same-sex couples. Of those, 438 were same-sex couples, with overseas residents making up nearly one-half of all same-sex couples marrying or forming civil unions in New Zealand that year.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 28, 2017 22:26 UTC