13/02/2026
How long can I dine out on this one? 😆
Jayde Creative Co Photography
Claudia Simounds
In honour of Valentine's Day, we're sharing some of our most-read online wedding stories:
Claudia Kuerschner and Michael Simounds had planned their dream day down to a tee. It was set to be a beautiful bush wedding at Claudia’s sister and brother-in-law’s station near Menindee, New South Wales. Everything was organised. Lights were hung, tables and chairs were set up, the sheds and shearer’s quarters were spotless. And then, it rained…
“A few days before the wedding, we were hit with a 75 millimetre downpour and no guests were able to get into the property due to the access road being dirt,” says Claudia, 25, who works for Elders Insurance in Broken Hill. She and her groom-to-be, Michael, 31, had to postpone the wedding. “All the hard work we put in to make the day perfect was just gone. Friends had travelled from all over Australia and already arrived in Broken Hill for the big day, so it was awful to tell them to turn around and go home,” Claudia recalls. “We had spent all our money on the wedding, so reality hit hard when we realised we had to replan the whole thing. I think I cried for three days straight.”
The couple decided their next wedding attempt would be on a fully sealed road and somewhere with low rainfall. They set a date for a year later, this time on the red soil and rocks at Tibooburra, one of the most remote towns in outback New South Wales. “It’s close to my mum and dad’s sheep property, Peak Hill station, and I wanted to get some wedding photos taken at home,” explains Claudia, who is the fifth generation in her family to grow up at Peak Hill.
Read the story here: graziher.com.au/article/tibooburra-wedding/
