Sunshine Coast Resort Hotel & Marina

A small wedding on the Sunshine Coast can feel less like hosting an event and more like gathering everyone you love at the edge of the ocean. Sunshine Coast Resort Hotel & Marina sits above Pender Harbour in Madeira Park, with ocean views, a private marina and a collection of suites and cottages that give couples the possibility of keeping their closest people together for the celebration.

The resort promotes itself for small weddings and family gatherings, and its intimate scale is part of the appeal. With fewer than twenty accommodations, this is not a sprawling hotel where wedding guests disappear into separate towers. Suites and executive cottages offer private outdoor spaces, many with kitchens, while the harbour and marina keep the coast constantly in view. The resort's own wedding activity information and recent guest experiences confirm that weddings are hosted on the property.

For the right couple, that intimacy is the romance. A few rooms filled with family. Friends meeting outside instead of in a lobby. The harbour changing colour as the day moves toward evening. There is no need for the wedding to compete with the setting. The coast is already doing the decorating, leaving the couple to fill the rest of the weekend with the people and moments they came for, leaving the kind of warm, romantic memory that feels almost storybook long after the last dance.

• On the water, or with water views
• Rooms for guests on site
• In-house catering and menus
• On a golf course
• Pets welcome