How we will remember Steve at Bindi’s wedding

Terri Irwin has revealed how daughter Bindi Irwin will remember her late father at her wedding at Australia Zoo, and who will walk her down the aisle.

Terri Irwin has revealed how daughter Bindi Irwin will honour her late dad Steve's memory at her Queensland wedding this year.

Bindi, 21, will marry young American Chandler Powell on the grounds of Australia Zoo later this year.

The moment Chandler Powell proposed to Bindi Irwin. Picture: @robertirwinphotography

Terri Irwin says the family will remember Steve by lighting a candle for him at the reception. The candle will be lit by Terri, her son Robert, Bindi and Chandler, and zoo director and Steve’s best friend Wes Mannion.

“We want to acknowledge Steve by all of us lighting this candle for him, but you know, I guess in some ways it’s not necessary because Steve will be there anyway,’’ Terri said.

“I believe the people we love always are.

Steve Irwin with wife Terri, daughter Bindi and Wes Mannion.

“You know, if you are missing someone, I think it’s helpful to know that scientifically you can’t actually create or extinguish life, you can only change its form.

“So if you are grieving someone you loved very much, look to science and just remember when you boil the kettle and steam comes out, it doesn’t mean the water has gone.

“The water hasn’t gone – your water hasn’t gone – it’s still there, it’s just different.”

Robert, Terri and Bindi Irwin with Chandler Powell at Australia Zoo.

Steve Irwin will not be there to walk his daughter down the aisle. But his son will be.

“Bindi has asked Robert to walk her down,” Terri said, “which I think is so right, I know Steve would feel the same way too.”

Steve Irwin, known around the globe as “The Crocodile Hunter” died in 2006 at just 44 years old. He was killed while filming on location at Queensland’s Batt Reef, stabbed in the chest by a stingray’s barb.

Terri said in the days following his death, she had to “gather her family” into her.

“There was just so much going on but I knew that the very first, and only thing to do was just the gathering in of the kids,’’ she said.

“We went to ground, Bindi, Robert and me. We just pulled into each other. No television, no outside world, just the three of us watching documentaries of Steve so we could remember by

ourselves before we had to start remembering with everyone else.”