About Us

All the best ideas for your Sunshine Coast wedding or Brisbane wedding are found right here in our wedding blog. We also connect you with the very best local vendors, and release a few bridal magazines every year to inspire you in your wedding planning.

Since launching in 2011, The Bride’s Tree has helped hundreds of local wedding businesses to thrive and grow, connected with hundreds of thousands of readers, published thousands of blog articles and released 36 volumes of our online magazine.

About the Director

About the Director

Sally Townsend conceived the concept for The Bride’s Tree when working in the Sunshine Coast wedding industry as a makeup artist, way back in 2010. Coming from a publishing background with a passion for the online space, she saw a need for an effective way for vendors and couples planning a local wedding on the Sunshine Coast to connect. Her passion for local business, the wedding industry and creating entertaining and helpful content is what drives Sally.


All the best ideas for your Sunshine Coast wedding or Brisbane wedding are found right here in our wedding blog. We also connect you with the very best local vendors, and release a few bridal magazines every year to inspire you in your wedding planning.You can find Sally sharing wedding tips on TikTok. If you’d like to collaborate with Sally, please email

The Bride's Tree Name Explained

There is a beautiful tradition in Germany where a bride and groom are gifted 12 Christmas tree ornaments when they commence their lives together as a married couple. Each of the 12 ornaments represents a certain area of life, which together make for a happy and successful marriage. This tradition is known as The Bride’s Tree.
This idea of bringing together many different elements to come together to create something wonderful, loving, and everlasting was something that resonated. It’s not unlike planning a wedding!
The Bride’s Tree website and community branches out in a far-reaching network to connect couples to vendors, and vendors to vendors, to make all the wedding dreams that ever there was come true.

Hi, I’m Sally, Founder and Editor of The Bride’s Tree. Over the past 13 years I’ve written thousands of articles about all things wedding from tips and trends to etiquette and ideas. On this blog I bring you the best of Sunshine Coast and Brisbane weddings.