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Matthew Rodwell
I know that it has nothing to do with the knights but I am so happy to annouce that Amanda Flynn and Craig Gower got married
Bride forgives Gower's bad behaviour
By ADAM BELL
January 29, 2006
DISGRACED rugby league star Craig Gower married his sweetheart, former cheerleader Amanda Flynn, yesterday in a garden ceremony on Sydney's northern beaches.
The intimate ceremony, attended by 90 relatives and close friends, began about 5.30pm in the gardens of Jonah's, an exclusive Whale Beach retreat.
The bride, dressed in a fitted white gown with thin straps and detailed beading, looked stunning.
She wore no veil and had her hair swept up in a bun with roses to match the one worn by the groom.
Gower was attended by three groomsmen, all wearing matching black pinstriped suits and no ties. Ms Flynn had three bridesmaids who wore colourful printed dresses.
She walked down the aisle to the song Arithmetic, performed by New Zealand singer-songwriter Brooke Fraser, then kissed Gower before the ceremony began.
Guests at the wedding included Gower's former Panthers team-mates Ryan Girdler and Greg Alexander. Noticeably absent were any Panthers first-grade players.
Buses ferried guests to the venue to avoidthe media camped outside.
Ms Flynn and five of her close friends shared a clifftop suite at Jonah's on Friday night to prepare for the big day.
Looking relaxed and radiant, the "Lady Luck" presenter on Channel 9's The Footy Show ate a light breakfast with her bridal party before disappearing to prepare for the late-afternoon ceremony.
Gower and Ms Flynn are believed to have signed a lucrative deal with a women's magazine, and their wedding arrangements were veiled in secrecy.
Florists, bakers and butchers sped in and out of the venue during the morning, unloading supplies.
Celebrity wedding stylists Angels Dreaming, who have worked on weddings for Hi-5 and Savage Garden, created a bohemian theme for the occasion, complete with Moroccan lanterns, serving ware and vivid splashes of colour.
"Amanda's style is very bohemian in itself, so there's a lot of her in the wedding's design," director Rouba Alamein said. Lush bouquets of peach, yellow and cream flowers were brought into the restaurant in the early afternoon. The wedding puts a much brighter look on what has been an embarrassing month for Gower, an Australian halfback, who was stripped of the Penrith club captaincy and fined $30,000 after a drunken rampage on the Sunshine Coast before Christmas.
The fine represented about six per cent of his Panthers contract.
The Sunday Telegraph
