Pua's Pride & Joy She Looks Like An Angel!

The Shorty star and his bride are in seventh heaven.

- Sebastian Van Der Zwan

On the morning of Pua Magasiva’s wedding, it’s bucketing down. Plans for an outdoor ceremony have been ditched, with a white marquee erected on the soggy lawn of the riverside Auckland venue as the rain pounds down. Making matters even more fraught, the power is still out fi ve days after a violent storm hit the region, so historic tavern The Riverhead is running entirely off a generator.

But as the guests trickle in and bride Lizz Sadler prepares to make her entrance, miraculously the skies clear and the bunch of white umbrellas Woman’s Day has brought along are suddenly redundant.

Disaster averted!

However, moments later, the groom collapses against a wall in tears. Amid the crowd of guests, the Shortland Street actor and Flava radio host, 37, has spotted his twin brother Tanu, who had been scheduled to undergo heart surgery in Wellington and wasn’t going to attend.

Unbeknown to Pua, the operation was postponed and Tanu secretly travelled north. Composing himself, the Samoan-born star tells us, “Oh, man, I lost it just then. It means everything to me for my twin to be here. We’re like yin and yang, but he’s always had my back and made sure I felt safe ever since we were born. This is the best surprise.”

But the tears aren’t over yet. As Pua, in a custom white linen suit from Hallensteins, and his groomsmen wait at the altar, the best man, Pua’s cousin Fa’atonu Fili, sings a tune he wrote about the bride and groom’s relationship.