DIY rustic wedding ideas

Showing the way to your dream wedding

You’ve planned and organised your longed-awaited wedding day down to the last detail and you want everything to be perfect, with nothing left to chance. That’s why we suggest putting up wedding signs to point your guests in the right direction and help them find their way around – so they don’t waste time looking for the room with the photo booth, for example. And it’s a great idea to make these signs yourself. Rustic signs made of metal and wood are super-stylish and well suited to a wedding held in a rural setting or a large garden. edding paint markers work well on these materials, so you can make signs that are expressive and easy to read. Their paint-like, opaque ink is available in a choice of colours as either matt or gloss paint markers.

Categories: Wedding
Creative garden ideas
Products: Paint markers
Materials: Metal
Wood
Difficulty: Easy peasy
Downloads: Images (ZIP)

Step-by-step

Step 1

Here you can see everything you need at a glance in our photo.

Step 2

Wash the plates and trays before you start designing. Before using a gloss paint marker, you need to activate it as described here. Using the fine-nibbed edding 751 in black, start by sketching out the wording for your sign. Now take the edding 750 with the broader nib and reinforce the individual strokes to give a calligraphic effect.

Step 3

To make the wooden sign, use the white edding 4000 matt paint marker which is ideal for all porous surfaces. This marker also needs to be activated, exactly as described in step 2. And don’t forget you need to make the signs point the right way! When you’ve finished, attach your DIY wedding signs to the wooden post, using nails for the wooden boards and the hot glue gun for the metal trays.