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Sunshine Coast Wedding Magazine – Free + Out Now | Volume 30, Winter 2019

Sally Townsend — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 05:18:07 +0000

This is a special one, you guys. It’s our 30th volume of our free online bridal magazine! Over the past 7.5 years we’ve published 81 inspiring real weddings and 63 styled shoots – 47 of which we planned and coordinated ourselves. I’m exhausted just thinking about those stats! BUT – I wouldn’t change it for the world.

This edition has some seriously special wedding inspiration that will help you on your Sunshine Coast wedding planning journey. Below is a sneak peek of the main features you will find in The Bride’s Tree Magazine, Volume 30 – Winter 2019.

Cover image by Bonnie Jenkins

The Style Sessions

Three incredible and completely different bridal styles with the styling, bride and groom fashion, flowers and cakes to match. Whether you’re a classic modern, whimsical romantic, or relaxed boho bride, we’ve got you covered.

Images by Mallory Sparkles Photography

Montville Luxury Estate Wedding

Isabella and Ian’s wedding is what formal fairytale dreams are made of. From the bride’s show-stopping George Wu couture gown to the lush floral installations, for a wedding with all the bells and whistles, this wedding will give you plenty to dream about for your own big day.

Image by Cloudcatcher Studio

Urban Cloudscape

A blend of modern minimalism and ethereal delicacy. In an urban setting, our betrothed is enveloped in a shroud of hanging euphorbia, conceiving a dreamy simplicity.

Image by Bonnie Jenkins

White on White Noosa Waterfront Wedding

Sarah and Ben’s idyllic Noosa beach wedding is a classic-meets-coastal affair with touches of the still very much on-trend tropical greenery. Anyone looking for the perfect venue to host their relaxed beachfront wedding will want to check out this wedding for inspiration.

Image by Sarah Schade Images

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Amy loves Duncan | Timeless Wedding in the Hinterland

Sally Townsend — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 07:48:41 +0000

Brisbane couple Amy and Duncan can’t fault their hinterland wedding at specialised venue, Flaxton Gardens. Their elegant wedding fashion and styling incorporated rich burgundy florals as a standout feature, bringing colour and romanticism into the mix, ideally suited to the lush winery location.

The bridesmaids wore chic navy gowns, while the bride and groom were dressed in classic sleek black and modestly embellished white for a timeless wedding style.

The Location

“It is such a beautiful spot. And the Sunshine coast Hinterlands reminds us of where we grew up. Also a lot of our guests travelled from interstate so it is close to an airport, with lots of accommodation nearby. Mariana and the team at Flaxton Gardens were so great to work with.”

Dream Team

“Everyone was amazing! My florist Sandi from Willow Bud created the most beautiful flowers and was so fun to work with! Emma Nayler, our photographer, really worked her magic on the day and really made us feel so relaxed. And my dream team in the morning Sally Townsend Makeup Artistry and Evalyn Parsons did everything so perfectly and made my morning so easy and calm! All of these suppliers listened to what we wanted and really looked after us!”

Wouldn’t change a thing…

“For all the world I wouldn’t change doing everything we wanted, a wedding is a big expense but to us it was worth it. There is no feeling of, ‘oh I wish I did this.’ It’s such a special time in your life. We had the best day.”

Images by Emma Nayler Photographer

The Proposal

“I had organised a birthday party for Duncan with a friend of ours, and as Duncan nervously cut into his birthday cake, he pulled out a little black box with a ring inside, I was very surprised and of course said yes!”

I’ll never forget…

“Arriving at the ceremony and feeling a mix of both excitement and nerves. Then seeing Duncan and feeling so so happy to be marrying him in front of our family and friends, they all mean so much to us. The love you feel on the day is incredible. “

Wedding Secrets

We splurged on: Having Emily Marguerite play at our Ceremony, she is such a talented musician and did such a great job.

Money-saving decision: Doing our own bombonnieres, but they ended up costing us more.

Bride’s dress: White Lily Couture

Bride’s accessories: Molten Store

Bride’s shoes: Shoes of Prey

Bridesmaids’ dresses: White Runway

Bridesmaids’ accessories: Colette by Colette Hayman, Lovisa

Bridesmaids’ shoes: Nine West

Groom’s and groomsmen’s attire: Institchu

Flowergirl’s attire: Ollie’s Place and Myer

Honeymoon: England, Scotland and France

Number of guests: 72

Wedding budget: $30,000

Actual cost of wedding: Let’s just say it was more than $30,000…

What’s next for Amy and Duncan?

“We’re just going to enjoy our newlywed life. We had such a good time on our honeymoon, so we would love to do more travel. We also love doing things around our home and spending time with our fur baby, Monty, who one day may have a baby brother or sister. ”

Thank you for supporting our A-list vendors, who made Amy + Duncan’s wedding so perfect…

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Abbie loves Ryan | Hinterland Chapel Wedding

Sally Townsend — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 15:40:14 +0000

The easiest way to take the stress out of planning for their wedding day was to remove any concern about weather. Let’s face it, Queensland wedding can be unpredictable. Although we have 260-odd sunny days each year, planning for the possibility of hitting one of the others is a must. Hinterland wedding venue, Weddings at Tiffany’s is, as Abbie put it, “weather proof”.

Choosing Tiffany’s for their hinterland chapel wedding was a no-brainer. The chapel and dining room complete with covered deck provide ultimate protection, yet in the happy event of a sunny day there is plenty of pretty outside space with just the kind of view one drives up the range for.

Fortunately for Abbie and Ryan, the day was full of clear skies. Read all about the day, as Abbie shares her memories and some awesome advice for future brides…

Emotional Wedding Day Moment

“Seeing Ryan at the end of the aisle! It felt like every emotion we had felt together over the past six years came back. The heavy heart I felt when Ryan and I would go months without seeing each other was there, but then was lifted as it felt like it was the end of our long distance struggles. It felt like any pain I had ever experienced was worth it to make it to this day. All the amazing memories we had shared came flooding back. I just felt so lucky to have found my soul mate.”

The Venue

“Tiffanys was the only venue Ryan and I looked at. We booked it the day that we first walked through it. Everything was five class. The views are absolutely breath taking, the service was phenomenal, almost everything was included in our package, the food was delicious. The compliments are endless. I never felt stressed. From the moment we booked to the day of, the hardest decision was picking which meals we wanted! Although the weather was perfect and sunny, it was great not having to worry about rain because everything is weather proof!”

Images by Tom Hall Photography

Finding Suppliers

“Tiffanys gave us their recommendations on their preferred suppliers which was extremely helpful. Stalking the Sunshine Coast Brides Tribe on Facebook daily also gave me a lot of inspiration!”

Getting Ready at Home

“My bridesmaids and my mum. I chose to get ready at our home as it means so much to Ryan and I as we have spent a long time renovating it. Seeing it look so beautiful in our photos made us so proud.”

The Decision to Marry

“We always knew that we were going to be together forever.We are both good at different things which keeps us quite balanced. He makes me laugh until my tummy hurts every single day. I guess I never really knew a life without him.”

Local Wedding

“It was so easy because most of our guests live on the coast. But we just love the diversity of it. Between the incredible beaches and stunning hinterland. It really has the best of both worlds.”

Wedding Secrets

Biggest splurge: Flowers! We wanted a simple but elegant wedding. We kept decorations to a minimum to allow the flowers to have the attention they deserved. Just about every inch of Tiffanys was coated in beautiful flowers. Well worth the extra money!

Best bargain: Suits Direct for the boys ties and pocket squares. They were all custom made and each tie worked out about $12 each!

Bride’s dress: LUV Bridal Maroochydore

Bride’s accessories: Tiffany & Co.

Bride’s shoes: JJ’s House

Bridesmaids’ dresses: Model Chic

Bridesmaids’ accessories: Tiffany & Co., and Colette by Colette Hayman

Bridesmaids’ shoes: Target

Groom’s and groomsmen’s attire: Roger David + Suits Direct

Honeymoon: Canada + Hawaii

Number of guests: 50

Wedding budget: $30,000

Actual cost of wedding: $35,000

Unforgettable Memory

“Dancing at the reception with all of our favourite people. I had not a care in the world. It was the perfect way to celebrate what had been our dream day and the start of our marriage.”

The Proposal

“We were walking along the Brooklyn Bridge towards Manhattan while on our winter holiday in the States. Ryan asked a fellow tourist to take a photo of us with the skyline behind us. He then started talking about how much he loved me and proceeded onto one knee. Oh so romantic!”

Advice for Future Brides

“Definitely invest in a videographer! Before the wedding everyone kept saying to soak up and enjoy every minute of the day. Realistically this is impossible! The whole day just felt like a blur and there was so much I didn’t remember because it all felt so overwhelming! Watching our video back felt like we got to relive our day again. I love that we will be able to show it to our future kiddies and celebrate every anniversary with champagne and watching our wedding movie (53 minutes)!”

The Next Adventure

“We want to continue to travel the world together. Live lightly and not take anything too seriously. We are so happy with where we are at now. As cliche as it is, I feel like all my dreams have come true! “

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Samantha loves Robert | Classic Flaxton Wedding

Sally Townsend — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 10:15:06 +0000

Bride Samantha says the only thing that went wrong on her Flaxton wedding day is that it went by way too fast! Although not before she, her brand spanking new husby, Robert, and their 120 guests smashed out a good three hours on the dancefloor.

The couple decided it was super important they were able to spend the maximum amount of time as possible with their guests, many who had travelled interstate to be with them on their big day. To achieve this, they made what they say was their best wedding planning decision: they had a “first look” prior to the wedding ceremony.

Then they proceeded to get their bridal party photo shoot out of the way, so that after the ceremony they could relax and interact with their family and friends. Kristy from Wildflower Weddings was the first supplier Samantha booked once they locked in the Flaxton wedding date.

Although the whole Sunshine Coast hinterland town of Flaxton lost power following Cyclone Debbie, Flaxton Gardens was able to run the entire wedding using generators. If Flaxton Gardens venue owner, Alan Thompson, was stressed about the lack of power, Sam and Rob say you would never have known. Sam and Rob say Alan was cool as a cucumber and everything ran smoothly from start to finish.

“I had a lot of help with my DIY projects – everything from wrapping bottles in twine, to stuffing invitations and making our guests bags for the bus trip up.” “Rob and I wanted to spend as much time with our guests, so we minimised the time spent on photos by having a “first look” and doing bridal party photos before the ceremony. It was the best decision we made.” “Our wedding theme is something that I really struggled with until I met with the florist, Julia from Ginger Lily & Rose, and we fleshed out the vision together!” “I followed a lot of people on Instagram – The Bride’s Tree, Lovebird Weddings and White Magazine – for inspiration.”“We wanted our wedding to be fun, relaxed and interactive. We had a lot of guests coming from out of town, and wanted to maximise the time that we could spend with them.” “Rob was really sweet and put together canvases that told our story and placed those around the room, so that guests who weren’t familiar with our whole story could walk around and read them.” “Our guest books doubled as table numbers, and will act as a little time capsule from the day. Every anniversary we open a guestbook from the corresponding table number – so in 13 years time we will read our notes from Table 13!” “Our biggest strength is that we let each other go in our early 20’s so that we could travel. It was a hard decision but ultimately we were lucky enough to choose each other again at the end of it!” “I went to university with Rob’s flatmate. Rob invited me to go jetskiing one day, and after a couple of summers of that we decided that we liked each other enough to start dating!”

Wedding Secrets

Best money-saver: I saved a lot by putting the invitations together myself rather than outsourcing it.

Bridal gown: June by Pronovias, $2400 – Brides of Brisbane

Accessories: Samantha Wills at David Jones

Shoes: Tony Bianco

Bridesmaid dresses: The Bridal Company, $385

Bridesmaids’ accessories: Their own

Groom’s suit and shoes: Indochino

Groomsmens’ suits and shoes: Indochino

DIY: I collected and wrapped the jars and bottles for the centrepieces, and put the invitations together, but honestly the venue was so great and had a lot of stuff that we could use!

Honeymoon: The Philippines

Number of guests: 120

Wedding budget: $35, 000

Who paid: My family were so generous and covered a lot of it.

“The dancefloor was a big part that I wanted to get right. Our whole day was planned around dedicating at least 3 hours to dancing!”

Thank you for supporting our A-list Vendors, who helped make Sam + Rob’s Flaxton Wedding Day…

Learn more about… Wildflower Weddings + Flaxton Gardens + Ginger Lily & Rose Floral Studio

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