Kristl Mauropoulos and Chad Houben

It was a gorgeous spring day in the secluded gardens of an historic house in Bowral. Kristl, wearing a glamorous gown with a delicate French lace bolero walked with her parents down an aisle covered in rose petals to ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’. “It was the song my late grandmother used to sing to me when I was a little girl,” Kristl explained.