Rain will hit the picturesque $20 million property where Brittany Higgins and David Sharaz are getting married today.
The happy couple have been waiting about 18 months to exchange vows, after Sharaz proposed to the former Liberal staffer atop Cape Byron Lighthouse at sunset on New Year’s Eve 2022.
Despite moving to a chateau in the French countryside in December, they quietly booked an afternoon wedding ceremony at The Valley Estate in Currumbin Valley on the Gold Coast for Saturday 1 June.
However, the couple now face a dire weather forecast of “a very high chance of rain” from midday, with a torrential downpour predicted overnight and into Sunday.
Mrs. Higgins and her fiancé have She has rubbed shoulders with Labor senators, former prime ministers and TV personalities since stepping into the spotlight in 2021, but it is unclear whether the wedding will be a star-studded affair.
Rumors have circulated that Lisa Wilkinson and Grace Tame didn’t make the cut.
Brittany Higgins and David Sharaz are pictured on New Year’s Eve 2022, after he proposed to her.
Lisa Wilkinson is pictured in Mosman on Wednesday wearing $1,700 Dior sandals.
On Wednesday, Wilkinson was seen strolling around Mosman, an affluent suburb on Sydney’s north shore, wearing a $1,850 Celine caramel wool jumper and $1,700 black Dior sandals.
She completed the look with white jeans, large black sunglasses and a tan leather bag, while sitting in a cafe drinking a cappuccino with an iPad, AirPods and a big smile on her face.
The TV presenter and Ms Higgins have been close since the former employee disclosed her rape allegations in an interview with Wilkinson on the Network Ten programme, The Project, in February 2021.
After Higgins gave testimony in the Bruce Lehrmann defamation case in December, Wilkinson approached her in the courtroom and gave her a big hug.
The wedding venue is set in nine acres of gardens and, according to The Valley Estate website, is the “epitome of luxury.”
“A unique, personalized space designed to inspire celebration and reflection with loved ones,” the site said.
Lisa Wilkinson is pictured smiling at a cafe in Mosman, in Sydney’s north, on Wednesday.
Lisa Wilkinson interviewed Brittany Higgins on a 2021 episode of The Project
Lisa Wilkinson appears at a coffee shop on Wednesday wearing a $1,600 Celine sweater.
‘The Valley Estate organizes exclusive and personalized wedding celebrations.’
Ms Higgins’ best friend and business partner, Emma Webster, will be her maid of honour.
Higgins’ wedding date was revealed in the Washington Supreme Court last week amid Linda Reynolds’ defamation case against her for social media posts that she claims damaged her reputation.
Outside court last week, Ms Reynolds’ lawyer, Martin Bennett, said he made an application to obtain a copy of documentation relating to a trust account in her name.
The Brittany Higgins Protection Trust was established in February last year after she was awarded $2.4 million in compensation for the way her rape allegations were handled between 2019 and 2021.
Chief Justice Peter Quinlan was told that Mrs Higgins would be getting married early next month and that her lawyers would need more time to prepare application submissions.
Higgins’ best friend and business partner, Emma Webster, will be her maid of honor.
Rumors have circulated that Grace Tame didn’t make the cut for the guest list.
The site is a former dairy located in the Queensland countryside (pictured)
Mr Bennett said: “We don’t know who the administrator is, we don’t know what Australian, Victorian, New South Wales or ACT law governs it, we need to know those facts and we get them by finding a document.”
The application will attempt to determine who is the administrator and who to sue if Higgins says he cannot pay damages if he loses the case.
Chief Quinlan accommodated his wedding date and ordered the matter returned to court for a directions hearing on June 17.
On Friday, Lehrmann filed an appeal to overturn a defamation conviction against him.
Lehrmann lost his defamation case against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson on April 15 when Federal Court Judge Michael Lee found, on a balance of probabilities, that he had raped Higgins in Parliament in 2019.
After the sentencing in April, Higgins posted a statement on Instagram saying she felt vindicated: “I was raped.” No trial would ever change this truth.’
“I lived with the shame, humiliation and fear of what telling my story would mean for my life and career, like so many other victim-survivors.”