When Married At First Sight New Zealand's surprise bride and groom were introduced at the altar in idyllic Vanuatu, it seemed like this could be a coupling that just might work. Both attractive and nervously excited, Cara "CJ" Huxford and Jesse Brooke looked picture-perfect together. But even then, tensions were brewing.
"She said something about being sassy in her vows," Jesse, 30, tells Woman's Day. "I wouldn't call it a red flag, but it's something that stuck in my mind." And the Auckland mortgage advisor was later unimpressed when he heard that CJ had challenged the other brides to pick which of their husbands they'd "kiss, marry, kill".
He tells, "I wanted someone who was kind and that didn't seem like a kind thing to do." But CJ, 32, had her own reservations. "He was younger than me," she says. "I thought they would have matched me up with someone older and more mature." For the Christchurch property consultant, it quickly became clear that Jesse wasn't her type.
She recalls, "After we arrived back in Auckland, the film crew were given a day off because they worked really hard in Vanuatu, so Jesse and I were able to go explore Auckland together.
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