A couple embroiled in a prank war with relatives returned from their honeymoon to discover their home in tatters.

Brooke Rentsch, 21 and her husband, Duncan, 21, a butcher, got back from their relaxing two week break in Bali to find their house turned upside down.

They soon found out that Duncan's brother, Cooper, 17, and his cousins had let them themselves into their home and wrapped their Mazda CX5 car in cling film.

Their light switches and door handles were covered in Vaseline and their pillowcases were full of cheese popcorn.

The culprits had even sticky-note-bombed their walls, streaked toiler paper all over the house, cling-filmed their fridge and left cups of water all over the two bathroom floors.

The stunned newlyweds quickly worked out that the seven cousins in question - Josh, 20, Sam, 25, Nathan, 26, Jack, 25 and Edwin, 20, had been behind the prank.

And instead of letting bygones be bygones, Brooke and Duncan spent over two hours cleaning up the mess, before storing it all in a big box ready to exact their revenge just a few weeks later.

As it happened, one of Duncan's cousins involved in the prank was also getting married five weeks later - and when they were on their honeymoon, Brooke and Duncan got to work, sneaking in through the rooftop skylight to get their revenge.

After dumping the streaks of toilet roll and filling up cups of water, the couple went one step further.

They mixed citric acid into salt, unscrewed their furniture and froze the screws, froze their cutlery and hid furniture.

And the prank war shows no sign of ending anytime soon, with Brooke confirming that another wedding is on the horizon.

Brooke, a videographer, from Hamilton, Victoria, Australia, said: "I think we had thoughts about it but then it had just slipped out of our minds so we were not expecting it at all. "

"It's a family tradition that's been around for a very long time - Duncan's parents did the same thing when they got married."

"I knew there was more inside, other than the car. I just thought someone had trashed the house."

"There was cheese-flavoured popcorn in our pillowcases and throughout our bed - it stunk and stained our pillows."

"There were streamers everywhere and they got wet and stained our floor. "

"The thing that really got Duncan was the fact that they mixed our peanut butter and the Vegemite together."

"It was just a lot of mess. For the next week we would find something that had Vaseline on it. "

"Every light switch and door handle had Vaseline on. The fridge and guitar got wrapped up too."

Duncan, a butcher, added that in their revenge they went "10 times as hard."

He said: "We may have put a bit more emotion into it. "

"We definitely did it 10 times worse than they had - only because we got distracted by emotion and the sweet taste of revenge."

"In our payback we upgraded everything."

"We covered their plates and bowls in honey, covered everything in Vaseline like they did to us. "

"We put citric acid in their salt and they were questioning why it tasted so funny. "

"We took the screws out of their furniture and froze them and hid all the different parts around the house. "

"We froze cutlery - Brooke went full into villain mode."

"There's another marriage coming up soon and we'll be there for every one of them."