We are lovers of love stories
And our passion is to tell your love story with impeccable style.
We are all about the experience... whether it's in the months leading up to your big day or on the day itself, we want to ensure it's an incredible journey for you.
And now, with our honeymoon packages, we can extend our stylish offerings to include a small luxury break after the wedding. We couldn't be more thrilled to bring this new service to our clients.
We want every aspect of your dream wedding to be seamless, professional, and luxurious for you.
At Lovebird Weddings, you'll experience true customer service from the very first phone call.
Why Lovebird Weddings?
We are passionate about hearing your heartfelt intentions for your day. We want to give you a wedding experience that feels like more than what you thought you could achieve. An experience to be talked about for years to come.
This is why 72% of our clients first hear about us via a referral, either through the venues that recommend us, or through family and friends who have already personally experienced our level of customer service.
Every conversation and touch point of our business is centered around creating an exceptional customer experience. This is important to us, because we know that it can be intimidating planning a wedding, and the trust factor needs to be high. We set the bar on this. We are renowned in the industry for going the extra mile, finding opportunities that will set your wedding apart, and leave a lasting impression on those that experience our love for what we do.
If you want to get a feel for how we work, we offer free initial consultations, creating that doorway for you to step into the feeling of absolute joy, combined with expert and inspiring conversation that comes with our very first phone call.
Ready to chat? Schedule your free consultation.
Lovebird Weddings staff are dedicated wedding professionals with over 76 years of combined experience
Trudy Croad and her team of 6 have together a combined 76 years experience in the wedding and event industry.
Our two branches, one on the Sunshine Coast and also in Brisbane, allow Lovebird Weddings to service weddings from the Gold Coast through to Maleny and Noosa. And yes, we have planned and styled weddings interstate and overseas. Stay tuned to hear a little more about our new wedding partnership in Europe, to be announced later this year.
Meet the Team
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Trudy Croad
FOUNDER & STRATEGIC DIRECTOR
The heart and soul of the business. Developer of new ways to improve the customer experience, and the inspiration behind creating dream jobs for her people, so that they have the resources to create dream weddings for their clients. 23 years experience in the wedding and events industry. Founder of Lovebird Weddings, and creator of Wedcoach, a coaching platform to help other small businesses in the wedding industry. An advocate for small business. A lover of love stories.
Phone: 0421 384 429
Email: trudy@lovebirdweddings.com.au
Podcast: In It For Love - launching late May
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Stephanie Ross
OPERATIONS MANAGER
With 17 years experience in the wedding industry, and recently managing weddings, both at Sails Noosa and here at Lovebird Weddings, Steph knows how to fine-tune the wedding process, building always on the customer experience. Steph takes all our enquiry, and is the first voice you hear when you enquire about our services. Steph’s personal genius is definitely systems, always finding ways to make what we do more efficient and effective. She is the voice of reason and a super sweetie that loves connecting with people.
Phone: +64 27 961 1611
Email: stephanie@lovebirdweddings.com.au
Works remotely from NZ, in Australia Sep-Dec
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Chloe Cramp
HEAD STYLIST
With 11 years experience in the wedding industry both internationally, and here with Lovebird Weddings, Chloe is our master creator of wedding beauty. Chloe’s genius is evident in her creative conceptual designs for clients looking to create something impactful in design detail. She is on top of colour palette and design trends, and every season presents her take on wedding trends - you must check out her shop here on our website, Curated by Chloe, offering 8 unique wedding trends you can take home with you, launching June.
Phone: 0415 968 837
Email: chloe@lovebirdweddings.com.au
Insta: @curated.by.chloe_
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Jenny Moodie
FINE ARTIST & STATIONER
Jenny has been in the wedding industry for 16 years, both internationally (hence the Scottish accent!) and here at Lovebirds central. She is a fine artist by trade, and brings all the love she has from her own brand Jenny Moodie Designs to our business of providing gorgeous signage and stationery for our clients. You can view some of Jenny’s beautiful curated packages in our new stationery store, launching June. And if you want a personalised illustration to reflect your bespoke needs, she delivers this with absolute panache and makes this process feel easy and inspiring.
Phone: 0403 560 557
Email: jenny@lovebirdweddings.com.au
Insta: @jenny_moodie
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Holly Butler
STYLIST
Holly has been with Lovebird Weddings for 5 years, and recently blessed us with a Babybird, the cutest little lady Sadie. Currently part-time, Holly is the other genius stylist in our business creating unique designs for our preferred venue clients. She’s an absolute sweetheart, with a heart of pure gold, and brings so much love for what she does. She also helps us with our marketing, managing our Facebook page, creator of all our blogs, and manages our YouTube page - yes we have one, that you must follow! How she manages it in 3 days a week, we are constantly blown away!
Phone: 0402 273 271
Email: holly@lovebirdweddings.com.au
Earth mother, surfer, and lover of natural palettes
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Lauren McLellan
HEAD PLANNER SUNSHINE COAST
Lauren joined us during covid, and soon wowed us with her exceptional customer service, delightful personality and divine passion. She is a natural wedding planner, giving her 110% every time to go above and beyond. Anyone who comes into contact with Lauren raves about her calm composure and gorgeous way of nurturing her clients and all the suppliers she works with. She quickly rose from assistant planner to Head Planner with the feedback from our clients. With 4 years experience, Lauren manages all our Sunshine Coast planning clients. She is the master of relationships.
Phone: 0459 384 686
Email: lauren@lovebirdweddings.com.au
Master of gifting to say thank you
Our values
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We choose to share our values with you, because we know that when trust is important, you need to know what kind of people you are dealing with…so this is a little bit about what we hold dear.
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We are all about quality. Especially in the way we present our decor and furniture. It’s got to be perfect. So that you can trust, when we send decor out, there are no scuffs, scratches or marks. Dont be deceived by stock images you see on others websites, our decor is presented in-situ for a reason…so you know that’s exactly how it looks on the day. Anyone can put up a great stock shot, but not everyone invests in repainting and refurbishing every week like we do.
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Every client is unique, which is why you need to be treated as such. We are not a dry hire business. The core of our business revolves around creating bespoke designs. And our conceptual designs are made to help you visualise your day before you get there. That’s how you know, and can trust, that what we present in our designs, is delivered on the day, to reflect your personal style.
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In this day and age, we totally understand that its not just about what we do, but its about how we do it. Because we have been in business for 15 years, we have seen nearly every scenario possible. We have been through a recession, delivered weddings in natural disasters, and during covid we spent all our free time working on our systems and procedures. That’s why working with us is fun. We make it easy. Easy to communicate, easy to know where you are at with our Lovebird-owned detailed documentation. Our processes are fine-tuned which is why we are the trusted brand amongst premier venues.
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When you launch into your wedding planning, it can feel overwhelming - there is a feeling of enormity and sometimes chaos on what to do and where to go. But this is where our expertise really comes into play. With over 79 years of wedding experience between us at Lovebirds, our focus is two-fold…we aim to inspire so you can feel all the joy, and we aim to simplify and organise, so you can feel all the calm. Watch us as we make a big production feel easy and stress-free.
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We don’t just care about our business, we care about the wedding industry, and even further, we care about small business. That’s why one of our core values is to action our support for our colleagues by being their visionaries. One way we are channeling this is through our sister brand WEDCOACH. It’s where our leader, Trudy, provides mentoring and coaching for other wedding businesses, and why she has chosen a podcast platform called In It For Love where her goal is to elevate the collective consciousness of the wedding industry by getting candid with the world’s most successful wedding brands.
Celebrating love through connection
Weddings are about celebrating love, with the people we love. Of course! That’s how it’s always been.
However, since Covid, our need to be CONNECTED to our loved ones is deeper than ever. For some of us, we were unable to see our family or our friends for many years. So what now is bringing people back together? It is WEDDINGS!
Weddings enable us to celebrate not just commitment, but life in its most joyous form, through CONNECTION. And this celebration, its an investment in the people we love the most, to create a memory that will live on forever.
So when clients choose Lovebird Weddings to plan and style their day, I understand the enormity of that decision. This incredible investment lies in our hands, and I am constantly humbled and honored that we get to do this. It’s also a big reason why every year I am trying to find ways to deliver a better customer experience than I did last year…this is my commitment to my business and to you, our client.
Trudy Croad, Founder of Lovebird Weddings
Celebrating our people
Recently we expressed our gratitude to the suppliers we’ve worked with over the past 15 years. Our message reflects our commitment to working with the best people.
“It’s not about Me, or You, It’s about Us. We do it Together. That’s what makes us special, and that’s what I’m really proud of.”
A huge thank you to Bluevale Films for capturing our 15th birthday celebration. We are so honoured to work with all these amazing people by our side.
Let’s work together
PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS, IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE: We are Lovers of Love Stories image by Bianca Virtue | Studio & Team images by Jac Lee | How Weddings Have Changed image by Bianca Virtue | Film by Bluevale Films