Journey Guides Australia star Victoria Fren says her new husband Nathan Moran’s late grandfather Barry – who sadly handed away every week earlier than their wedding ceremony – “was undoubtedly trying down on us” throughout their particular ceremony, given the unseasonably sunny climate the couple loved on the day.

The 29-year-old walked down a gum tree-shaded aisle towards an historical rock cathedral in picturesque Kangaroo Valley, two hours south of Sydney, on the arm of her father and fellow actuality star Mark Fren, who was overcome with emotion.

“After I noticed Victoria, I used to be bawling my eyes out,” Mark tells Lady’s Day. “I simply could not cease. I did not know whether or not it was as a result of I noticed my little woman was getting married and she or he was all grown up or that I used to be pondering of my checking account!”

Victoria was lower than impressed at her dad’s present of emotion, although. “It truly pissed me off,” Victoria jokes. “Everybody was him as a substitute of me. It is about me!”

The household’s signature humour was evident within the couple’s vows too.

Whereas groom Nathan, 30, revealed his reduction that the massive day had lastly come round so he might ditch his eating regimen “man shakes”, Victoria promised to proceed bringing again duty-free alcohol for her new husband from her journeys abroad together with her well-known household for TVNZ 2’s Journey Guides.

The groom’s Aboriginal heritage was additionally celebrated, with Nathan’s cousin Brenden taking part in his didgeridoo in the course of the ceremony.

“It was superb,” says Victoria, who explains that the entire day was impressed by Nathan and his household’s love of the bush.

After visitors loved sundown drinks on a deck perched excessive above the valley whereas the bride and groom posed for footage, it was on to the reception, with the spotlight of the entire wedding ceremony for Victoria – the couple’s first dance.

“We might practised so lengthy for it and it undoubtedly paid off,” says the star. “It was so epic. We had dry ice and fireworks, then the band chimed in. It was spectacular.”

The couple’s celeb pals, The Block Australia stars Mitch Edwards and Mark McKie, took on the MC duties for the night. “They have been implausible,” says Victoria. “They’re such pretty individuals.”

Michael Teng was the one Journey Guides castmate on the tight visitor listing, with Victoria revealing the couple “solely had restricted numbers” and “did not actually need it to be a Journey Guides factor”.

She explains, “We simply wished it to be about me and Nathan.”

The couple’s nearest and dearest loved a feast of black angus sirloin with miso, beetroot-cured ocean trout and butternut dauphinoise with browned sage butter. “The Frens love a buffet,” enthuses dad Mark.

The night ended with visitors gathering round an enormous bonfire. “Everybody received modified after which met by the fireplace to debrief after the reception,” tells Victoria, including that if her huge day was an episode of Journey Guides, they’d undoubtedly give it 5 stars. Mark agrees, “It was simply completely gorgeous.”

The newlyweds are actually packing their luggage for Thailand for his or her honeymoon, however Victoria nonetheless has an extended bucket listing of locations she’d like to go to together with her humorous household on Journey Guides. “I wish to do Spain and the Maldives,” says the Newcastle-based star, who works in incapacity and aged care assist when she is not filming the present. “There are such a lot of locations on the planet we nonetheless have not been to but.”

Victoria is eager to remain on the fact present “so long as they nonetheless need us”, she provides. “We love Journey Guides. It is so good, with me and Jonathon being older, to have the ability to nonetheless journey with our mother and father.”

She and Nathan additionally produce other plans for the close to future. The couple – who’ve been collectively since they have been 18 – are already mother and father to a canine named Zeus, however they plan so as to add a baby of the human selection to their household quickly.

“We might like one or two youngsters,” she says, including that she’d find it irresistible if her brother Jono and his spouse Danielle, each 32, began a household on the similar time so the cousins might develop up collectively.

“That will be stunning.”

However Victoria and Nathan’s future youngsters will not be Frens – a lot to her mother and father’ dismay.

“We are actually the Morans,” Victoria declares. “Not a Fren… I feel the household deep down is heartbroken.”