Couple leaves wedding gifts for SPCA
This young couple also brought a very special guest to their wedding.
NOT forgetting about the friends and family they left behind, a young couple briefly returned to Kempton Park from New Zealand in January to get married.
As they could not take any wedding presents with them, they decided to leave it right here – at the Kempton Park SPCA.
Instead of normal wedding gifts, guests were requested to bring dog and cat food, as well as blankets, which were all donated to the local SPCA.
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Alex and Kelly Anne (née Schreuder) Sullivan, both 22, have walked a long road before their wedding day on January 10 at Avianto. Both grew up in Kempton Park and both attended Shangri-La Academy.
Their paths split when Alex, then 13, emigrated to New Zealand with his family. However, he and Kelly Anne remained friends.
Then, two years ago, he came back to visit his family in South Africa. The two met up and realised they both had strong feelings for each other. Kelly Anne went to visit him in June 2014 and returned to South Africa to pack up and move to New Zealand in August 2014.
This young couple also brought a very special guest, Rafi, to their wedding. Rafi is a well-groomed rhino whose mission is to save his kind and to do something to help all the rhinos in Africa.
He comes from the Okavango Delta near Maun in Botswana and his worldwide adventure can be followed on Facebook. Rafi went on honeymoon with the Sullivans before returning to New Zealand with the couple, waiting for the next kind person to take him on the next leg of his journey.
On Friday Rafi was trying to hitchhike to Lake Taupo to meet new hosts there, or alternatively find a way to Perth, Australia to meet up with a family who has asked to host him there.
