Crafternoon: Wedding Signage

We worked on a very special wedding in September, which involved quite a bit of make and do. One of our favourite projects was the signage, and we thought we'd share a quick how-to for everyone out there who is doing a bit of wedding planning.

We were inspired by this:



But we didn't like the fonts much (too uniform) and there was no way we were going to faff on with cutting out all those shapes. 

Our first stop was Homebase, which has a wood cutting department. This meant cheap offcuts, which was exactly what we wanted. We bought a selection of boards for £1-3 each. We also bought a pot of value white emulsion, a blue tester pot and a tube of black craft acrylic.

Back at the studio we marked out and cut a series of strips, some with a blunt end, some with one pointed end and others with a point and a tail. We gave them a couple of coats of white emulsion (with a little accent of blue mixed in) FRONT AND BACK PEOPLE (it's all about the finish). 

While the base coat was drying we printed out our text - we used a great free font called Sail, found via a nice roundup of fun free fonts here. Then we traced them front and back, and transferred the text onto the - now dry - strips.

The last stage was to use a super fine paintbrush to carefully paint in the text, to give a nice hand finished look. Don't worry too much if your lines aren't perfect, a bit of human error is OK. Don't give a brush to anyone who's too ham fisted though, you do still want them to be pretty. Seal with a coat of watered down PVA if there's any chance of rain (i.e. if you're in the UK).

Then simply tack the signs onto a bit of baton (also to be found in the wood section) and plant firmly into the ground on the big day. Don't forget your camping mallet, you will inevitably want to place the sign in the hardest bit of ground in a 25 mile radius. Love and sunshine and good clear directions for all...