Steve Irwin’s daughter has revealed that her gorgeous lace white wedding dress was a moving tribute to her family and late father.
Bindi Irwin, 21, tied the knot with her long-term beau Chandler Powell last week at Australia Zoo.
This was just before the place shut down to the coronavirus pandemic.
Bindi has opened up about how her beautiful wedding dress was a tribute to the one her mum, Terri, wore when she married Steve Irwin 18 years ago.
Bindi told People magazine about the heartwarming dedication to her family, saying: “I wanted something very similar because I’ve admired [my mum’s] dress since I was tiny.
Bindi’s wedding dress was a tribute to her family and late father Steve Irwin (Image: Instagram/@bindisueirwin)
“When I was about 12 years old, I put on mum’s wedding dress and it was a really, really special… it’s over 50 years old because it’s been in the family for that long.”
Unfortunately, The Crocodile Hunter’s daughter couldn’t wear the exact dress because it didn’t quite fit and was too old to be tailored.
Despite not being able to wear her mother’s beloved dress, Bindi paid tribute to her family wearing a jaw-dropping Paddington Weddings design that “mimicked” the family heirloom.
Bindi’s dress mimicked the gown Terri wore when she married Steve back in 1992 (Image: ABC)
The dress was a perfect match to the one Terri wore when she married the late Crocodile Hunter back in 1992.
Bindi continued to reveal that the delicate sunflower lace sleeves on the dress “reminded me of my family and my dad”.
She said, recalling a heartfelt memory from her childhood: “When we would go on projects and drives together, we’d often drive through these huge sunflower fields in the middle of nowhere and we always stopped to take them in.
Steve Irwin tragically died back in 2006 when a stingray barb pierced his heart (Image: PA Archive/PA Images)
“[The dress] was really special and beautiful.”
Bindi said she knew the dress was the one as soon as she laid eyes on it, saying: “It was just perfect, I said, ‘Oh my goodness, that’s the dress’ and we all started crying again.”
Chandler and Bindi tied the knot at Australia Zoo last week, after getting engaged in July last year on Bindi’s 21st birthday.
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