Where forest weddings help restore 120 acres of habitat

Pic credit: Facebook/ Bower Estate Remember the scene from the Twilight saga, where Edward and Bella exchange vows in a clearing surrounded by wisteria and candlelight, the whole thing bathed in soft woodland light? Though fantasy, the scene stayed with enough people that forest weddings have become shorthand for intimate, magical, just-us-against-the-world celebrations. What if you could have a similar wedding in the midst of a forest that looks straight out of a fairytale?Pic credit: Facebook/ Bower Estate Getting married in a forest does feel different. There's something about woodland ceremonies: the intimacy, the dappled light and the feeling that you have stepped into a fantasy world. Bower Estate delivers exactly that aesthetic. Trees, suspended greenery and a transparent marquee that disappears into the hinterland sky create the kind of secluded clearing you'd think only existed in fiction. Tucked away in the Queensland hinterland near Natural Bridge, the family estate provides a dream-like wedding venue. You get the clearing and the greenery, and it dissolves into the hinterland sky so the forest becomes the actual backdrop. And your wedding could be making an actual diffe...