How Bindi Irwin honoured her mother Terri at her wedding to Chandler Powell

Bindi Irwin paid tribute to her mother, Terri, with her choice of dress at her wedding to Chandler Powell at Australia Zoo on Wednesday evening.

The wildlife conservationist, 21, said ‘I do’ in a dress that looked remarkably similar to the one Terri wore at her wedding to Steve Irwin 27 years ago.

Bindi stunned in a breathtaking white gown, which featured an intricate lace bodice and full tulle skirt, complete with a delicately embellished headband.

The lace sleeves in particular are a tell-tale sign Bindi was inspired by her mother.

Terri and Steve tied the knot in her hometown of Eugene, Oregon, on June 4, 1992 a year after meeting in Australia the previous year.

Steve, who was known to millions around the world as ‘The Crocodile Hunter’, died in September 2006 at the age of 44 after being pierced in the chest by a stingray barb while filming a wildlife documentary in Batt Reef, Queensland.

Following her husband’s death, Terri raised Bindi and her younger brother Robert, now 16, as a single mother. She has never remarried.

Bindi and her professional wakeboarder husband, 23, tied the knot at Australia Zoo, on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, on Wednesday evening (AEST). 

They made the ‘difficult decision’ to have no guests present to keep the community safe as the number of coronavirus cases in Australia continues to rise.

The family had planned the wedding for nearly a year but decided at the last minute to hold a ‘small ceremony’ without guests due to the pandemic.

Their nuptials came just hours after Prime Minister Scott Morrison enforced new restrictions on weddings, with only five people allowed to attend including the couple, the celebrant and witnesses.

Terri’s close confidant, U.S.-based author Steve Maraboli, is believed to have officiated the big day.

Robert walked Bindi down the aisle and Terri helped her daughter get ready. After saying ‘I do’, the newlyweds lit a single candle at the altar in Steve’s memory.

On Tuesday night, Mr Morrison enforced tough conditions on weddings amid the coronavirus pandemic.

‘Large gatherings for weddings, sadly, won’t be possible under these new arrangements,’ he said.

‘Sadly, also, and I know this will be very difficult, funerals to no more than 10 persons observing the rules around the four-square-metre rule and the social distancing practices.

‘This is not an easy decision. Where we have already found, and Dr Murphy [Australia’s Chief Medical Officer Professor Brendan Murphy] can speak to this, some of the events that have been some of the major transmitting events, it has been exactly these types of events, particularly weddings.

‘And that is why, regretfully, we have to be able to put these arrangements in place.’

Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a respiratory illness characterised by fever, coughing, a sore throat, shortness of breath and fatigue. It can cause pneumonia.

The spread of the disease, which was first identified in Wuhan, China, in December, has resulted in over 460,000 cases worldwide and more than 20,800 fatalities.

As of Thursday morning, there are 2,431 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Australia, including nine deaths.