Digital Sign Wedding Itinerary Made Easy

Digital sign wedding itinerary

[Music] hey everyone welcome back to my channel and welcome to the first DIY wedding video that I'm gonna be doing here so many people asked me on previous wedding videos if I was gonna be doing any DIY projects and if I would be documenting them as a them and originally I won't lie I was not going to do DIY I didn't want to show us myself out I didn't want to take on too much but as time has gone on I got the DIY bug and I am so inspired by other wedding DIY videos here on YouTube and I decided to start thrifting and start coming up with ways that I could save myself some money and so I'm gonna be doing a series of probably 3 or 4 DIY videos for the wedding on this channel so if you like this one there will be more to come hopefully unless you guys hate it we won't put up another one but today we are gonna be focusing on wedding signage wedding signs are important they tell your guys what to do where to go how they should be I don't know I give them important information while you can't because you are getting married and you are enjoying your new spouse and having a good time and you don't want people coming up to you and saying hey where's this what should I do where should I say you want science signs everywhere so I start looking on Etsy about two months ago for signage because I wanted custom signs and realize immediately that they were well out of my budget I love Etsy don't get me wrong I have gotten so much of my stuff already on Etsy I'm gonna be doing a haul soon I will show you guys what I've got but I simply couldn't afford the signs that I wanted I was looking for decently big signs that had our names on them and things and they were gonna run me about $100 a sign and I just couldn't afford that I couldn't put that into my budget I couldn't justify it for something that I'm gonna use once so kudos to you guys out there that have NC shops and you make these gorgeous signs because I do appreciate the work you put into them I put myself put a ton of work into my signs and I get why they are as expensive as they are but I could not spend that much personally so if you are a budget bride and you're looking to come up with an alternative to these gorgeous signs on Etsy and you want to make it yourself this is the tutorial for you because I managed to make three of them for $40 all three $40 not a piece all of them $40 so today we are going to be making a welcome sign a bar menu sign and a sign for our donuts that we are having instead of our cake so I had so much fun with this project I'm really excited to show you so if you guys are interested keep on watching and without further ado let's get into the tutorial alright guys this is a 2 by 4 foot piece of finished plywood that we got at Home Depot in the lumber section and this is what we're going to be using to create our signs today so I did this in inches it's 24 inches tall by 48 wide and we're going to be creating three signs so two that are 18 by 24 and one that is 12 by 24 so the first thing that I did was I stained the plywood the color of my choice this stain was called gun stock and we got this from Home Depot as well it was fairly cheap and I'm just taking a old t-shirt that I ripped up into pieces and I'm going with the grain and staining this now you absolutely should be wearing gloves you'll notice a common theme in this that I'm not wearing gloves but I highly recommend doing it just because these are chemicals and also you need to vent your room that you're in really well and just make sure you're you're getting rid of the fumes guys because it's pretty strong here I'm just using wet paper towel taking off the sticker on the back this was pretty stuck on but by the time I stained it it was fine I stained the front and the back and ended up liking how the grain was on the back better it was a little bit darker and I ended up using this side of it but you're gonna want to stay in both sides just to make it look a little bit more finished you can obviously use any stain of your choice this is just the color that I picked out now another thing you can do is you can sand and prime your wood before you stain it this one was already finished so I didn't need to sand it or anything so just keep that in mind you might need to prep your wood that I found that this worked fine without me doing that so after I did my staining I let that dry and then I went in and started making measurements so I went 18 inches 18 inches and then the remainder will be that end piece which I believe comes out to about 12 and I just took a straightedge and connected lines at the top and bottom to make one cut line I'm using a piece of wall art here you can use any straightedge and then I had Brandon go in with an electric saw to cut this if you use a handsaw you're risking being really splintered and uneven so I highly recommend an electric one and then I just went in and I sanded the edge with some light sandpaper just to get any kind of little splinters off because you're going to be handling the sign and anything that was like imperfectly straight I kind of sanded down a little bit so this is an optional step that I did next which was I created my signage digitally in Adobe Illustrator using rulers on the tops and sides and some guides I measured out exactly how far down my font was going to need to be and I did this for each of the three signs I got the fonts on dafont.com and again we're gonna be free ending them but this is basically just how I want it to look this is a totally optional step but I found it to be very helpful in the next step so if you're able to make a scale version of your sign somewhere where whether it be illustrator or word this was helpful so we're gonna get started right now on the actual production of the welcome sign so as you see I am looking at my measurements in Illustrator as to where they should be that artboard is the exact same size as the sign itself so super easy I did it in inches and I just measured out and marked where everything needed to start line by line and then I'm going in and I'm free handing now you can absolutely use stencils you can use a little projector and do tracing or you can freehand this this is totally up to you and your comfort level for me I was totally fine with free handing as you can see I'm able to erase I'm using pencil and those marks don't show up once we finalize everything so you can mess up as many times as you really need to I'm also using a paint stirrer as a straightedge just to make sure I'm staying like nice and straight going across and I'm actually making boxes for the correct height of each word so that I can just stay within that and I don't like go down or up accidentally because you want this to be as perfect as possible I would say my biggest piece of advice making these is to go slow and be very precise because once you start painting it's on there then you can't change it so now I'm taking a paint pen I got this at Walmart I bought two ended up only needing one this is just in white and I'm going in and I'm tracing over my pencil lines and as you'll see I needed to do two coats with this paint pen it took a little while to get it really good and primed but once you do it is awesome for this it worked so well the tip was a fine tip and I was able to be really really precise with it and as you can see I'm going over the letters multiple times and just tracing this out [Music] so now that we are finished with the tracing of the welcome sign we're gonna move it out of the way and get started with the bar sign we will be coming back to all of these at the end to finish them but I just kind of marked out and did all of my lettering and painting first so for the bar sign it's gonna be a little different we're going to be actually painting on my pets onto it using acrylic paint and I got this idea off of signage on Etsy and I thought it was adorable but again it couldn't really afford those signs so I said okay I'll just freehand them I found some clip art online of pictures of animals that look kind of like my pets and I free-handed that in so again if you want to maybe take Polaroids of your pets to like stick on here or use a stencil there are many different ways you could do this but I just free handed them and if you're wondering the reason our pets are on here is because we are actually naming our signature drinks after them and so that's our kind of way of honoring them at the wedding they're a huge part of our life and so we're gonna have a drink named after gypsy and a drink named after the two cats so I just think it's so adorable I'm going in here and I am painting with acrylic I just got these they were I think 50 Cent's a piece at Walmart and I've mixing colors and as you can see I've finished off kind of gypsy here I just looked at a picture of her and kind of free handed it and then I'm gonna after this get started on the kitties and I took my time with this again I started these signs so far before my wedding that I gave myself plenty of time to really think out how I wanted them and make it perfect if you're doing a sign like this I highly suggest giving yourself a lot of time and just really going slow with it I took I would say probably about two hours to paint them in here I just really wanted it to look like them and just be SuperDuper cute so here are the final of the two kitties and then when I pan up here is the final of Gypsy I'm now going to go in with my paint pen I have already written in my lettering here and I'm just tracing it like I did with the other two signs and this is the only sign today that we're going to be making that we won't finish in this tutorial because our signature drinks haven't been a hundred percent decided and I didn't want to put in ingredients and have them change so just the names of the drinks and the top like title of the sign will be on here also I'm sorry for any camera shake I had an overhead rag here that I basically made out of cardboard to like to spend my phone over everything and I noticed that there's a lot of shaking especially when I speed this up it's super noticeable so I'm really sorry about that guys I will try to be better if I do future tutorials to make it more steady you we are now going to get started on the doughnut sign I got this idea off of Pinterest I think it is absolutely adorable it's gonna say holy matrimony on it and the O in the word holy is going to be a doughnut I love this idea and obviously not an original idea guys Pinterest is your friend and so this sign like I said earlier is a little bit smaller it's 12 by 24 inches as you can see I'm using some household items just to trace out that donut and then perfecting it freehand marking everything out and if you're wondering yes we are having just doughnuts for our guests at the wedding and the cake will be for Brandon a night to cut and everyone else is gonna have the doughnuts I'm very excited about this I think it's super trendy and cool and I'm all for trends guys like I know it's been done but I love the idea so now I'm just tracing over with the paint pen like I did with all of the other signs and I mentioned this before already but only one paint pen to do all three of these so super affordable guys and this paint pen was awesome it's usable on a multitude of surfaces so I'll probably use it in future projects and it came in multiple colors as well and I got that at Walmart and Josie I do two coats here over that word matrimony you really want to get it nice and bold and standing out on the dark wood and you can also use a darker stain if you're you know worried about that but this stain was fairly light and I think it ended up looking great so now we're going to move into polyurethane you're going to use two coats of this while using steel wool in between to get out any bubbles or imperfections you want to let this dry overnight at least one day before doing a second coat I just think this gives the signs are really nice finish and again we're not doing the bar sign yet because it's not complete we're now going to move on to doing what the sorry girls channel calls style points I got this idea from them I love this idea I went to the dollar store I got some pretty flowers in nude blush and white and I'm using some wire cutters and cutting them apart I actually found out afterward you can just pull the tops off without cutting them at all you will have to cut baby's breath if you use that but here I am I'm just arranging these on here and I'm using industrial-strength glue it's like an epoxy and again smells very strong so you're gonna want to vent the room really well place your flowers on here how you want and you got to let this dry overnight I just think that this gives the signs a really nice finish it just makes them feel a little bit more finished and pretty and you can save money on having to have like floral arrangements sitting on top of them yes they're faux flowers but I just think they're really really pretty let me know in the comments if you guys agree I just love how they came out and the effect that they ended up giving these signs I bought 5 strands of flowers it was $5 at the dollar store and I had a bunch left over for the bar sign and future projects so very very affordable before I show you the finished product this is just a breakdown of everything I purchased again if you're going to use stencils or any other alternative methods that I mentioned during this video you might spend a few dollars extra than I did but with free handing everything I managed to keep it at just about $40 almost exactly and I think for three signs this is incredibly affordable if you're willing to put in the time and effort and really take your time with it these can come out absolutely gorgeous I could not be more happy with them and I'm really happy that I managed to stay in budget and still have the signage that I liked and here are the finished signs [Music] [Music] okay guys that is it for today's tutorial I hope you guys really enjoyed it and found it helpful and inspiring again all of the videos that I found inspiring a lot of them are actually from the channel sorry girls those are going to be down below and I highly encourage you to go and watch their stuff if you're interested they have a ton of great DIY wedding content and do honestly a far better job than I ever will on this stuff and they are true professionals of the DIY like community so definitely go check them out and I am really excited to do more DIY in the future here so if you guys like this make sure you give it a thumbs up comment down below what are you di wagging for your wedding how do you feel about DIY what did you think of my signs are you gonna do this so are you gonna make them I would love to know all of it so if you like my channel make sure you subscribe and make sure you click that little bow so you know when I upload here to YouTube I try to do it as frequently as possible but this video itself took me forever so I'm very sorry for the delay but I hope you guys loved it and I will see you all in my next video bye