Jacqui Burfoot Marries in Queenstown on Mafs Australia 2026 Couples
Jacqui Burfoot and Clint Rice are now married, and mafs australia 2026 couples has a new public milestone to track. The pair quietly tied the knot at Lake Wakatipu in Queenstown on 20 April 2026.
Their joint Instagram post gave the first glimpse of the wedding. The caption read, “Married, 20 April 2026 ?“ and the image showed them kissing on a wooden deck overlooking Lake Wakatipu with Walter Peak behind them.
Lake Wakatipu Wedding Image
Burfoot wore a flowy wedding gown with a floor-length, lace-trimmed veil, while Rice chose a jet-black tuxedo and matching bow tie. Pink roses, hydrangeas and greenery filled the frame, and the post was set to Elvis Presley’s Can’t Help Falling In Love on TikTok.
That visual does more than mark a private ceremony. Burfoot and Rice were both contestants on Married At First Sight Australia 2025, where each was paired with other contestants, so this wedding turns a televised mismatch into a finished relationship arc.
From Reunion Party to Ring
The pair announced their engagement last April during a private viewing party for their reunion episode, after Rice proposed at a Sydney nightclub. Burfoot later wrote, “Surrounded with love in love,” while showing her ring, a custom-made 5.08ct oval diamond solitaire set in platinum and 18ct gold.
By December, she was already speaking about the relationship in firmer terms, telling the Herald’s Stephanie Holmes, “We love each other to death,” and calling Rice “incredibly grounding” for her. She also said, “Getting engaged was the best,” before adding, “I like enjoying life, not dwelling [on the negatives].”
The wedding lands after a more complicated run-off from the series. Burfoot’s original match with Ryan Donnelly ended badly, with Donnelly applying for an Apprehended Domestic Violence Order against her and Burfoot appearing in court in June last year; after the season wrapped, she also spoke on social media about alleged mistreatment by show producers. For viewers who followed the season, the Queenstown ceremony is less a cast update than the endpoint of a relationship that kept moving after the cameras stopped.
Clint Rice and Ryan Donnelly
Burfoot’s first public wedding image settles the main question surrounding the couple now: they have taken the engagement announcement from last April and turned it into a legal marriage. What comes next for readers is simple enough — their relationship is no longer a post-show story line, but a married couple’s life built in public and on their own timeline.
