Delicious and affordable: Halswell Bakery
When it comes to the big day, you don’t need a big budget… that is if you head to Halswell Bakery! From simple, rustic style cakes, to beautiful fresh sandwich platters, the bakery offers a bespoke service so you can get exactly what you want for your engagement celebration, hen/stag do, the wedding […]
Our special day
Take an inside look at some beautiful local weddings that have happened in and around Christchurch recently. These images were kindly supplied by the incredible wedding photographers listed.
Create lifelong memories: Lacebark
Warm, personal service, extensive gardens with endless on-site photo opportunities, seating for 120 and BYO drinks with no extra charge, plus wedding co-ordination, are just a handful of the reasons lifelong memories are made at Lacebark. The gardens transition through beautiful colours, and the outdoor and indoor wet-weather options mean year-round wedding hosting […]
Premium & pure: Forth Luck Gin
Recent challenges remind us to celebrate the small wins, and examine the quality of our lives. We are quicker to discard the mediocre. Handcrafted and locally sourced is now premium. The Rolls Royce of gins, Forth Luck, epitomises the handcrafted and local ethos. Located in the Cust hills and made from New Zealand-sourced […]
Jambalaya in a jiffy: United Fisheries
Prep time 20 mins Serves 4-6 Cook time 30 mins Ingredients 4 rashers streaky bacon, cut into 2cm pieces 5 Hellers Spanish Chorizo sausages, sliced 1cm thick 1 large onion, roughly chopped 1/2 green capsicum, diced 1/2 red capsicum, diced 1 stalk celery, diced 1 ½ cups long grain white rice ½ tsp […]
Blood orange and gin fizz
Ingredients 2 blood oranges (or regular oranges), juiced 2 slices blood orange, to garnish 30ml Cointreau 30ml blood orange gin Prosecco to top up 2 sprigs thyme Ice Method Squeeze the juice from blood oranges into a jug. Add Cointreau and gin and mix. Fill two short glasses with ice and add a […]
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