Mr Walsh and Ms Spicer, who has lived in Kyabram for three decades and has been the Kyabram P-12 College chaplain for more than 20 years, will now live together in Echuca.
The wedding was attended by a small gathering of family and friends, including both the couple’s children.
The couple chose to keep the wedding private and details of the wedding only emerged last week when it became public they were now married at Kyabram’s chaplaincy fund raising dinner — where $80,000 was raised for the college support services program.
The wedding was conducted at St Mary’s church in Kingower (not far from the Inglewood goldfields) designed and founded by Mr Walsh’s great-great-grandfather, Reverend William Hall.
Reverend Hall founded the church in 1871 and it is considered the “biggest and grandest’’ of the seven country churches that he established in the 1860s and 1870s.
Mr Walsh purchased the property from the Anglican church for $140,000 at an auction in June 2012. He grew up about an hour north of Kingower, at Fernihurst.
When he purchased the property Mr Walsh was quoted in The Age as saying “I envisage the building will be used as a community meeting place and possibly for weddings’’.
He may not have realised that his own wedding would be held at the church a decade later.
The reception was held at Both Banks Vinegard, which is directly opposite the church and is owned by the great-great-grandson of a former parish priest.
Mr Walsh has made an annual pilgrimage to the church for anniversary celebrations every year to honour his great-great-grandfather.
The wedding ceremony was conducted on August 20, which according to sources, was the only free date between now and the state election — on November 26.
