The big news this week is that we have a bigger than Ben Hur giveaway on the go! On Monday we announced our Big Day Out With Your Besties competition was open. This means you, friends, have the opportunity to win a day full of pampering, including hair and makeup, a high tea, a photo shoot and a night away in the Sunshine Coast hinterland worth $5000!  The rest of the week was dedicated to showing you the wonderful work of the amazing and generous businesses who have donated their time and products to this competition.  All you need to…

  Over this gorgeous Easter weekend, we are bringing you some of our fave styled shoots, coordinated by The Bride’s Tree team for our own free online wedding magazine. Our funky little rag is released each quarter, offering you the latest trends and positively toothsome style from decorations to fashion, from hair and makeup to photography.  We gather a contingent of only the very best Sunshine Coast wedding professionals to take part in these shoots, so you are treated to world class beauty in bridal styling. Today we are sharing with you a delightfully pretty and funky lingerie shoot we put…

Nina and John enjoyed perfect weather for their Sunshine Coast hinterland wedding at gorgeous wedding venue, Flaxton Gardens. Carefully planned over their 18 month long engagement, this cute couple, who got together in an office romance, achieved the elegant vintage wedding they desired.  There were 70 guests at the Flaxton wedding, who were conveniently able to enjoy walking from the ceremony directly to the reception, as Flaxton Gardens have both a stunningly gorgeous spot to say your vows with the most incredible view, as well as a choice of reception locations. Delicious food is an absolute certainty in this place,…

  Who doesn’t love a high tea for a bridal shower? With pretty little cakes, ribbon sandwiches, vintage tea cups and every thing that is good and right with the world! But you know what’s hard? Baking, making sandwiches, and finding stacks of matching vintage tea cups. So don’t do it. The End.  Oh no, of course I wouldn’t leave you hanging like that my pretty little Sunshine Coast brides! Indeed I have a solution you will love. It comes in the form of everything done for you! In addition to mobile bridal hair and makeup styling, Allure Hair and Beauty offer mobile…

There was some fabulous fashion on the blog this week, with two real weddings – each from opposite ends of the Sunshine Coast – which had amazing dresses on the brides and bridesmaids, gorgeous accessories and the most fabulous shoes! We didn’t miss the men out this week, either, as we shared some great tips especially for grooms.  Kicking off the week on the right foot, we shared 10 reasons you can’t afford not to hire a wedding planner.  This lovebird-themed wedding had the perfect touches of duck egg blue – one of our fave colours for wedding styling!  Did…

How many weddings have you been to where the groom and groomsmen let down the team by turning up in ill-fitting suits they have (bless them) made a noble attempt at choosing all on their own. Sending your groom and his groomsmen off to a department store to pick out suits, without so much as a measuring tape,  has disaster written all over it. So in the spirit of cleaning up the act of every last well-intending, yet clueless, Sunshine Coast groom, we have asked seasoned professional, Tammy Fox of Suits Direct to give us the skinny (and not so skinny…) on what…

Did you know we have some amazing printable planning tools right here on The Bride’s Tree for your printing and planning pleasure? Try saying that five times fast! I can tell you, it will be a lot trickier than utilising these super easy-to-use tools that will make putting certain parts of your Sunshine Coast wedding in order so much more simple than you could have imagined.  One such tool is our seating arrangement tool, that actually allows you to swap and change all of your guests around as much as you need to until you have it just so. Sometimes…

Whenever we have worked with Matt Rowe Photography, we have been struck by the care he takes in ensuring he gets just the right shot. He’s looking for perfection, and he does not stop until he gets it. This is evident in today’s Photo of the Week, which is from an engagement shoot in Bli Bli.  It’s an outrageously gorgeous sunset love story for Djanisa and Rana, and we are hopelessly in love with it! Matt Rowe is one Sunshine Coast wedding photographer to watch – you mark our words. Have a beautiful weekend, lovelies!   

The lovely Fiona Duce of Coastal Weddings is a fun, young, but highly professional Sunshine Coast wedding celebrant. We always have a good time and a laugh when Fiona is about the joint, because she is a naturally personable lass, and just always so very happy! We think her unbridled happiness must be because this very happily married woman sincerely enjoys being part of other couples’ journey into married life. But hey, enough speculating, because there’s simply no need – Fiona has answered all of our probing questions. So let’s train our spotlight on this star of the Sunshine Coast…

For their upcoming wedding, Chloe and Joel commissioned Kerrie-anne Designs to custom design an invitation set that would lend itself to their dual theme. Rustic and nautical was the order of the day, so super clever and creative Kerrie-Anne set about creating this unique set, which includes the invitation itself, personalised name tags, map to the ceremony, and RSVP postcard. With her design, Kerrie-anne had a stamp made, which she applied to transparent paper and fixed it to balsa wood. We absolutely adore the attention to detail and care put into every one of Kerrie-anne’s designs.  Kerrie-anne Designs has both custom…