Decode the Wedding Dress code-Dress Code Dictionary

Decode the wedding dress code: what do they actually mean?  Reading Time: 5 minutes Received a wedding invitation and don’t quite understand the dress code? Or perhaps you’re planning your wedding and aren’t entirely sure what to write on your invitations? Here’s our dress code dictionary, aimed at helping you decipher the wedding dress code. Why should I include … Read more

5 Steps to create the Ultimate Cheese Platter

1. PLAN YOUR PLATTER It’s important to consider things like how many people you need to cater for and whether the cheese is being served as an for hors d’oeuvres or as dessert as these will determine the amount and types of cheese. Pre-dinner cheeses should generally be a lighter cheese with rich and full-flavoured cheeses … Read more

5 Tips for hosting a Wedding Dinner Party

1. PICK A THEME Whether it be a colour, a cuisine or serving style, embrace it and have fun! This will help when it comes to decision making and planning the event, allowing you to create a festive atmosphere and experience. 2. LET YOUR GUESTS MINGLE There’s nothing worse than when you don’t have time … Read more

10 Ways to wear your Hair for Brides

10 ways to wear your hair down on your wedding day Looking for some wedding day hairstyle inspiration but want to wear your hair down? Let these gorgeous real brides direct from our real weddings blog show you how it’s done.Here are 10 ways to wear your hair down on your wedding day: Long spiral … Read more

4 Classy Hen’s Night Ideas

4 classy hens night ideas (without the nudity) Tired of the common hens night tradition of hitting the male strip club with a gaggle of girls, only to be carried home at obscene hours of the morning, less your dignity and your left shoe? If that’s fun to you — no judgement. If not, here’s … Read more

Are you a Bridezilla, and how to spot one.

Oh, dear! We’re sure this email from a Colorado bride to her 10 bridesmaids wasn’t intended to be quite so demanding but it certainly comes across that way. The bride-to-be, whose name has been removed, is most forthright when it comes to explaining to her bridesmaids exactly what she expects of them – and we don’t think we’re alone … Read more

Who doesn’t love a Whole Roasted Pig on the Spit

We have been producing Whole Roasted Pigs for a few years now and I have to say its the best productwe have, purely for the end result is the whole skin becomes crackle.  The meat falls of the bones, its so tender and juicy. The Pig is carved in front of your guests, its decorated with … Read more

Wedding Venues,not over the Top

Wedding venues: it’s about subtle, not over the top flowers & long tables: Round tables are out! Long, banquet-style tables are on the rise as couples encourage guests to mingle and chat.  “We’re seeing the demise of the humble chair cover and, to some extent the typical function chair,” says Mary-Anne Lowe from Bram Leigh … Read more

Wedding Cake Trends

Check out our New Facebook Page, link below: https://www.facebook.com/SpitroastSunshinecoast/ Wedding trends: Weddings may be all about tradition, but they’re also about trends. We chatted with some of the country’s top wedding vendors about what’s hot in wedding planning right now. Here are 8 trends we saw crop up again and again… Wedding cakes: buttercream is back, … Read more

Places to see when on the Sunshine Coast

THE SPIT ROAST COMPANY SUGGESTS: THE CLOCK SHOP, MONTVILLE  Phil & Fran Hoffman welcome our guests through and give them private tours of the intriguing inventory. You can’t help feel you are in a Charles Dickens novel with the huge grandfather clocks or in an Austrian village with all the cuckoo’s jumping out everywhere!  A must see … Read more