Barnaby Joyce wedding ceremony: Company start to reach as ex-Nationals chief prepares to tie the knot with Vikki Campion in ‘bush-bash’ wedding ceremony

Barnaby Joyce, 56, prepares to tie the knot together with his former political adviser Vikki Campion, 38, in an outside bush bash-style wedding ceremony at his sprawling property – nearly six years after their scandalous affair was uncovered.

The blissful couple will host a pink and ivory-themed celebration the politician’s household ranch in Woolbrook, west of Walcha, within the NSW Northern Tablelands, on Sunday afternoon.

What was imagined to be a low-key barbecue for round a dozen visitors swelled to a celebration for greater than 80 of their closest pals, with a dance ground ordered in for a barn on the property.

The couple’s younger sons Sebastian and Thomas, age 5 and 4, could possibly be seen exterior the venue earlier that morning, prepared for his or her roles as web page boys.

Joyce himself jumped out of a Toyota Landcruiser on the property forward of the ceremony, earlier than visitors – together with former Nationals MP George Christensen – started to reach in a convoy of four-wheel drives.

Hours later, the newlyweds could possibly be seen, hand-in-hand, in his and hers Akubra hats.

Automobiles have been parked round a white aisle separating rows of white chairs. A single transportable rest room could possibly be seen on the trailer of 1 4WD.

Whereas the nuptials have been a household affair, not all members of the Joyce clan have been anticipated to attend. 

It isn’t clear which one among his 4 daughters, Julia, Caroline, Odette and Bridgette, agreed to affix the festivities, however it’s unlikely to be Odette, who as soon as posted an image of her mum and siblings on Instagram with the caption: ‘The actual Joyce household #whosbarnaby’.

On Saturday evening, the night earlier than her father’s wedding ceremony, she used Instagram to share a photograph of a good friend’s birthday celebration within the Sydney suburb of Manly – which is about 5 hours south of Walcha.

The ladies’ mom, Natalie Joyce, was mentioned to have been blindsided by her then husband’s affair, which information of emerged in February 2018 when Ms Campion was two months away from giving delivery to Sebastian. 

When the couple introduced their engagement in January 2022, Mr Joyce mentioned his household’s response was as ‘one would have anticipated’ and never everybody was happy. 

‘Some are blissful and a few are understandably not as blissful,’ Mr Joyce mentioned on the time.

He proposed with a parti sapphire ring, a stone common in his northern NSW voters of New England.

Ms Campion’s father Peter beforehand advised Day by day Mail Australia the marriage was anticipated to be ‘very a lot Barnaby getting again to his nation roots’.

He mentioned together with the country-style dancing predicted in a single report, he anticipated there would even be extra conservative ‘staid waltzing’, however ‘I am not a lot of a dancer, and I’ve had a knee reconstruction, so I will not be boot scooting’.

Mr Campion mentioned now considered Joyce as ‘a very good bloke’ and ‘one of many higher ones’ amongst Canberra politicians. 

The famend conservative mentioned it was media misreporting about his daughter relationship that had initially set him in opposition to Joyce, however his daughter had assured him her relationship with the MP had begun months after his marriage had ended.

Mr Campion will give a speech as father of the bride and could also be wearing, he says, ‘steel-capped boots and a “Make Australia Nice Once more” cap’.

Requested what he’ll say about his daughter, he mentioned: ‘I am there to ruffle feathers. some arduous truths about trendy society dominated by the lunatic left.

‘Properly, I’ve solely bought 20 minutes. It is a uncommon alternative to drop some reality bombs.’