New marriage laws mean Whangarei lawyer and transgender advocate Kelly Ellis can marry the woman she loves, for a second time.
The criminal lawyer and aspiring Labour candidate had to end her eight-year marriage to her wife, Kelly Ewing, in order to change the gender on her birth certificate to female.
But with last year's marriage-equality law change, the couple - now in a civil union - can legally tie the knot again and the big day has been set for March.
"That has now cleared the way for me to re-marry the woman who is currently my ex-wife, my civil union partner and my fiancee," Ms Ellis said.
Her sons, aged 18 and 21, will be among the wedding guests. But it has been a long and costly road to re-marriage, made possible only by legislative change.