In terms of wedding disasters, the experience of engaged couple Stephanie McEwan and Brendan Clarke was among the worst: seven days before their dream wedding, the venue they’d organised 18 months before was destroyed by fire.

It was just past 7pm last Friday, September 5, when the Loxley on Bellbird Hill, one of the Hawkesbury’s oldest and most significant wedding venues, burnt down.

Camden couple Brendan and Stephanie were married on Saturday after a week of scrambling because their first venue burnt down. Credit: Euphoria Films

More than 80 firefighters had to deal with the extraordinary flames and the added risk of venting gas bottles from inside the venue.

But from tragedy has emerged a story of hope. The couple, now officially Stephanie and Brendan Clarke, wed on Saturday af

See Full Page