Nicola Crabb and her fiancé thought they had already found the venue for their November wedding when they decided to pay one last visit to Loxley, a historic site in the Hawkesbury Valley, and immediately fell in love.

“It was just so lovely, the venue is beautiful, but also the feel of it,” she said. “The staff were all amazing, and it felt like they really cared about our wedding. It wasn’t just a business transaction.”

But now Crabb, like dozens of other couples, has been left scrambling to find a new location for the couple’s nuptials after the historic wedding venue north-west of Sydney was destroyed by fire late on Friday night.

Nicola Crabb and her fiancé (inset) are among dozens of couples scrambling to find a new wedding venue following last night’s fire at Loxley on Bellbird H

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