After a week of terror, an Outback love story to warm your heart


Posted June 8, 2017 by traditionalbeauty

After a week of terror, an Outback love story to warm your heart

 
The wedding party wore cowboy boots, the bride rode in on a Kenworth truck, and right in the middle of the majestic Outback is where these newlyweds tied the knot.

Ordinary is the last word one would use to describe Tara Fulwood and Jason Craige's wedding, which featured spectacular red cliffs and a night sky alight with the stars.

Tara and Jason said "I do" in Loves Creek Station, exchanging their vows as a spectacular mountain loomed in the background.

Tara, 31, rode to the aisle in style, coming in a Kenworth truck that has been in her family for decades and is lovingly called Bertha.

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It was a fitting wedding for the Northern Territory couple, who met four years ago at a rodeo when Jason was a bull rider.

Tara was at the pub when Jason first caught her eye across the bar.

The pair got to talking and then went their separate ways. But the conversation lingered in both of their minds.

'Jason, being a country boy from the Bush, took a big leap to join Facebook and try and track me down - and he found me!' Tara said.

'And I happened to be searching for him as well.'

After their first date, Jason and Tara have been inseparable.

Three years later, after asking permission from her father, Jason got down on one knee as they sat on their veranda under a full moon and asked Tara to marry him.

Both Tara and Jason knew they wanted their wedding to express their personalities and give their guests a better sense of their remote home in Mataranka.

'We wanted our friends and and family to be able to experience something that we do and the environment we live in on a daily basis,' Tara said.

'An experience that they could remember forever.'

The couple wanted a red cliff face and sandy creeks, and their friend knew just the spot.

When they saw Loves Creek Station, which is owned by another pal, Tara said it felt 'right straightaway'.

'We immediately started making plans about what could happen where and how we were going to do it.'

Tara and Jason had a 'rustic, country-style' wedding, with the ceremony taking place on one side of the creek bed and their outdoor reception on the other side.

The remote location was familiar to the couple, who run an employment program that mentors and trains young indigenous people for pastoral jobs in the Northern Territory.

But they admit that the setting was a bit of a shock to some of their guests, who had to get used to the fact that there was no phone reception.

'Once people realised the environment they were in, and that they were safe and surrounded by great people, they decided to relax and enjoy the atmosphere and take it all in,' Tara said.

Before the ceremony even began, there was some added excitement when Bertha the truck got stuck in a creek just as Tara was on the way to make her entrance.

'We actually got a bit bogged, and so our wedding guests had to put steel plates in the creek and help us get through!' she said. 'It was very exciting'.

The ceremony then began with a Welcome to Country, in which an Aboriginal or Toress Strait Islander elder from the local region welcomes people to the land.

'It was a new experience, and set the theme for people,' Tara said.

The reception also included a meal of an entire bullock, a gift from a few friends, that was cooked in the ground and was a 'highlight of the night'.

Photographer Lisa Hatzimihail's pictures captured the wedding's gorgeous setting, and it wasn't long before they caught Facebook's attention.

But Tara and Jason didn't have phone reception for days after their wedding. By the time the couple finally got to see their wedding photos, they had already received hundreds of shares and likes.

Tara said choosing a wedding photographer who was from the area was key to getting the most beautiful shots on her big day.

'Lisa was born and bred in Alice Springs, that's the countryside she's been looking at since she was a baby - and probably taking photos of since she was knee-high,' Tara said.

'It's evident in the photos that she really knows what she's doing.'

Tara said she is still in shock at how much attention her wedding photos have gotten, but has loved reading the 'beautiful comments'.

'People are saying, "Oh we don't even know this couple, but we can see the love shrine through,'" she recalled.

'That's what we really wanted to do - just share the love.'

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