Ruby Lake Resort

Ruby Lake Resort feels made for couples who want the wedding to become a small world of its own. Spread across an 88-acre wildlife sanctuary on the Sunshine Coast, the property is wrapped in rainforest, with water, trees and gathering spaces that allow a celebration to move through the landscape rather than remain inside a single room.

The resort can accommodate wedding guests in cottages, glamping tents and rustic wood cabins, making it possible for many of the people you love to stay together on site. Larger receptions can gather beneath a fully equipped marquee tent for up to 200 guests, while waterfront areas bring the serene lake into photographs and quieter parts of the day. There is also an open-air amphitheatre beneath the trees, a wonderfully unexpected place for a ceremony, music, a first dance or an evening that carries on beneath the stars. On-site catering is available.

This is the kind of place where a wedding can stretch beyond its timeline. Guests wake up in the same sanctuary, paths replace hotel corridors and the rainforest becomes part of the atmosphere without needing to be styled. The formal moments still matter, but so do the ones around them: a morning coffee outside a cabin, laughter travelling between tents and the strange, lovely realization that nearly everyone you love is sleeping under the same patch of sky, leaving the kind of warm, romantic memory that feels almost storybook long after the last dance.

• Ceremony and reception in one place
• On the water, or with water views
• Gardens and grounds
• A historic setting
• Rooms for guests on site
• In-house catering and menus
• Bar service
• Wedding packages
• Sound system and audio-visual
• Live music welcome
• A patio or terrace
• A fireplace or fire pit