James’ gorgeous daughter
Scout, with Jessica Marais, is
“thrilled” to have Sarah as a
stepmum. “She loves Sarah
so much. She’s been waiting
for this day.”
’m in a daze, still. I’m on cloud
nine.” James Stewart exhales.
It’s a few days since the Home
and Away star married his
long-term partner and co-star
Sarah Roberts on July 23
in Ireland. Choosing
Luttrellstown Castle as their
special spot, the couple lived
out their fairytale dream.
The now husband and wife are waking up
together bright and early in Ireland to share
all the details exclusively with WHO, and even
though they’re exhausted from a life-altering
week, their joint excitement is palpable down
the phone line.
“I wanted it to be a celebration of love and
the important thing for us is for our families to
come together and for us all to be together
and everyone to just have an enjoyable time,”
Sarah, 34, shares, before James, 43, adds: “We
could have easily gotten married under a tree
by some water or on a property up in the hills;
anywhere! But this has been magic.”
Living in Sydney but hailing from different
parts of Australia, (James is from the Gold
Coast and Sarah is from Melbourne), choosing
Ireland for their wedding may seem like an
unusual choice. But as the couple reveal,
Ireland is sentimental to them for several
reasons. James has Irish ancestry but for Sarah,
the connection is even closer to home. Her
brother Karl De Abrew lives in Dublin, but due
to health issues, was unable to fly anywhere,
so they brought the wedding to him. “My
brother lives over here. He’s not able to fly at
the moment because of health reasons. And
my mum’s over here at the moment as well,”
Sarah explains.
“Jimmy and I wanted to get married within
a year after he proposed. And when we
decided to get married in Ireland, [we knew]
we’ve got two production breaks at work.
Either July or December. December is going to
be really cold in Ireland, so we thought July
would be perfect and actually it was! It was 25
degrees the day we got married, which is really
unusual for Ireland at this time. They were all
running around saying it was a heatwave!”
From how they organised the wedding
of their dreams in two months, to James’
daughter Scout’s important role on the big day
and their plans to expand their family, the
newlyweds share every little detail.
So take us back. When did you start
planning the wedding?
SARAH: To be honest, we only started
planning two months before the wedding.
It was a very quick turnaround. But in
retrospect, I think it was good because we
just got everything done. I still got nervous
and things like that but it didn’t really give
us time to think about being nervous. We
just got into action mode and made
everything happen.
‘I
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