Real Wedding: Tenille & Marc in Maleny

1st March 2015

On Tenille and Mark’s Maleny wedding day they had been together just beyond 10 years! Their stunning DIY farm stay wedding was meticulously planned by the bride, who loves a good bargain hunt, something she picked up from her mother. Always on the hunt for craft items at a good price, Tenille gathered enough to host many a crafternoon in the lead up to her wedding!  In addition to her own DIY details, Tenille hired Jo from Coast to Country Weddings and Events to finalise the styling and to coordinate the day. A real treat that had Tenille feeling like…

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DIY Kawana Beach Wedding

3rd April 2014

Lovely Sunshine Coast bride, Megan, planned a beautiful vintage beach-themed wedding on a budget. With a little help from family and friends, her DIY efforts started with the invitations, continued with putting together bombonieres and even went so far as arranging the flowers and hair styling.  //// The pair were married at Kawana beach under a bamboo canopy the bride and her father constructed together, and then held their modestly catered reception in their church hall. As a very sweet touch, the couple surprised the bride’s father, a long-time Kombi van enthusiast with a super rad mode of transportation from Deluxe…

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Quirky Country Wedding in the Hinterland

10th February 2014

Rebecca and Ryan met when Ryan moved in next door and popped his head in to say a neighbourly hello. And the rest is history, as they say! The pair decided to share more than a postcode. They formed a life, made a beautiful child, and grew a partnership along the way that lead them to their Sunshine Coast hinterland wedding day. //// This fun couple decided to throw all the rules out the window, and simply infuse things they like into their wedding day. They enlisted the help of family and friends to help them collect material, doilies, jars, handkerchiefs…

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Just in case you missed it…

2nd March 2013

What a handy little week we have had. With so many awesome tips from people in the bridal industry and brides alike, we know we have learnt an awful lot! If you missed out on anything at all, never fear, we have bundled it all together just in case, so you can get on your way to planning the Sunshine Coast wedding of the year! Here is all the great planning information we have had on the blog this week…  We fell head over heals for this wedding in the Sunshine Coast hinterland at one of our all-time fave wedding…

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DIY Vellum Cake Flowers

17th October 2012

Yesterday we shared with you a quirky hen's tea party, and today we are sharing with you the perfect little decorations for atop your quirky tea party cake. These are a gorgeous DIY job brought to us from Oh Happy Day! They are vellum printed flowers you can arrange in your own way to pretty up even the plainest of cakes. The full instructions can be found here, including a link to the copyright-free printable flowers, making this our simplest DIY yet. And oh so pretty! Perfect for your own Montville Lake Terrace hen's tea party.     

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Cute, Fun, Colourful Noosa Beach Wedding

25th April 2012

Do you remember a little while ago we posted the world’s most awesome wedding invitation? To jog your memory, it was a stop motion clip set to Halls & Oats’ You Make My Dreams, featuring today’s Sunshine Coast real wedding couple, Bronnie and Sam. This gorgeous young couple were engaged for six months after having been together for almost three years following an introduction by a mutual friend at a coffee shop, and then Bronwyn started attending Sam’s church. I genuinely have not seen a more sweet couple in all my time, and when you see their wedding photos below,…

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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.