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Everyone wants their wedding day to be different from everyone else, but this Canberra couple’s big day can just take the cake. Bonnie and Joel Sykes prepare for their wedding in September at the Red CentreNATS Auto Festival in Alice Springs. It took a long time for the happy couple, who have been together for 12 years and engaged for six years. During that time they had two children – Noah, 5, and Chloe, 9 months. READ MORE: In fact, Bonnie was so convinced they would never get married that she legally changed her last name. But then there was a chance to win a $ 15,000 wedding at Red CentreNATS – an event sponsored by Canberras Summernats. And all Bonnie had to do to impress the judges was make a TikTok video that simply said, “12 years old, 2 kids, 6 performance cars, hundreds of motorsport events and still hasn’t married me?” “We had nothing to lose,” says Bonnie. “We were happy with our situation but thought we might as well get in, see how things go, and we were pretty successful and we got through.” The big question, however, is what will the wedding car be? “At the moment I have three cars and we’re thinking about which one to take,” says Joel. “Hopefully it’ll be a new car and it’ll be half-revealed there. If it does, it’ll be a blown, injected HG Holden.” Our journalists work hard to bring local, breaking news to the community. Here’s how you can still access our trusted content:
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August 3, 2021 – 4:30 a.m.
Everyone wants their wedding day to be different from everyone else, but this Canberra couple’s big day can just take the cake.
Bonnie and Joel Sykes prepare for their wedding in September at the Red CentreNATS Auto Festival in Alice Springs.
It took a long time for the happy couple, who have been together for 12 years and engaged for six years. During that time they had two children – Noah, 5, and Chloe, 9 months.
In fact, Bonnie was so convinced they would never get married that she legally changed her last name.
But then there was a chance to win a $ 15,000 wedding at Red CentreNATS – an event sponsored by Canberras Summernats. And all Bonnie had to do to impress the judges was shoot a TikTok video that simply said, “12 years old, 2 kids, 6 performance cars, hundreds of motorsport events, and still hasn’t married me?”
All roads lead to the couple’s car festival wedding in Canberra
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Everyone wants their wedding day to be different from everyone else, but this Canberra couple’s big day can just take the cake.
Lifestyle, life,
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“We had nothing to lose,” says Bonnie.
“We were happy with our situation but thought we might as well get in, see how it goes, and we were pretty successful and we got through.”
The big question, however, is what will the wedding car be?
“At the moment I have three cars and we’re thinking about which one to take,” says Joel.
“Hopefully it’ll be a new car and it’ll be half-revealed there. If it does, it’ll be a blown, injected HG Holden.”
Our journalists work hard to provide the community with local, breaking news. Here’s how you can still access our trusted content:
