Bindi Irwin slams TV crew for ruining her her ‘dream’ wedding to Chandler Powell – after being forced to relocate the ceremony at the last minute
Bindi Irwin has blasted TV crews for ruining her ‘dream wedding’ to Chandler Powell at Australia Zoo in April.
Sharing a post to Instagram on Sunday, the wildlife warrior, 21, complained that she was forced to relocate the ceremony at the last minute due to noisy TV crew helicopters flying overhead.
Uploading a photo from her wedding day, Bindi wrote: ‘This isn’t the fairytale image capturing the ‘perfect’ wedding day feeling. In fact, it’s quite the opposite.’
‘I said goodbye to the place I had dreamed of getting married’: Bindi Irwin, 21, has blasted TV crews for ruining her ‘dream wedding’ to Chandler Powell, 23, at Australia Zoo in April
Bindi went on to explain that she and Chandler originally planned to wed at the zoo’s ‘African Savannah’ area, but things didn’t go to plan.
‘On our wedding day we were finally about to get married and the paparazzi flew over us in a helicopter scaring our wildlife. We had to leave our stunning wedding venue on the African Savannah for their safety,’ she wrote.
‘I said goodbye to the place I had dreamed of getting married for so many years,’ she added.
‘We had to leave our stunning wedding venue’: On Sunday, Bindi posted to Instagram complaining that she was forced to relocate the ceremony at the last minute due to noisy TV crew helicopters flying overhead. Pictured: Channel Nine footage taken from a helicopter flying above Bindi and Chandler’s wedding
Thinking on her feet, Bindi quickly decided to hold the event inside a barn instead.
‘At that moment I remembered the filming barn where I’d spent much of my life with my family working on Crocodile Hunter and Bindi The Jungle Girl,’ Bindi explained.
Bindi and Chandler’s helpers immediately go to work moving the event’s decor indoors.
‘At that moment I remembered the filming barn’: Thinking on her feet, Bindi quickly decided to hold the event inside a barn instead
‘I was there in my wedding dress, husband-to-be by my side, moving tables and flowers and trying to make our day finally become a reality,’ she reminisced.
Bindi admitted that she felt ‘overwhelmed’ by the chaos, before Chandler sweetly reminded her that ‘love always wins’.
‘Our wedding day wasn’t what we planned but it was an extraordinary starting point for our marriage to bloom,’ she declared.
‘It was an extraordinary starting point for our marriage to bloom’: Bindi admitted that she felt ‘overwhelmed’ by the chaos, before Chandler sweetly reminded her that ‘love always wins’
American pay television network Animal Planet were given exclusive media access to Bindi and Chandler’s wedding.
Footage of their big day aired during a special episode of Crikey! It’s the Irwins.
Bindi and Chandler had moved their original wedding date, set for April 4, to a fast-tracked ceremony in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
They tied the knot just hours after Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced new restrictions on weddings due to the coronavirus pandemic, with only five people allowed to attend.
Exclusive deal: American pay television network Animal Planet were given exclusive media access to Bindi and Chandler’s wedding