Venturing into the unknown
I always knew I’d DIY my wedding details. It’s just who I am, and I wanted our special day to be a representation of us. Something I didn’t know, is that I would simultaneously be working on a partial DIY home remodel while working at a startup. As challenging as it was, I’m so proud of all the work I accomplished and I wouldn’t have had it any other way. Here’s a look at all the details, I could not have done this without the help of my mom & dad, husband and of course cricut & figma!
Getting inspired
I knew I wanted a dramatic welcome/seating chart that I made by hand. I gathered a ton of inspiration to figure out what fit the vibe and what I could acheive for my first time doing this.
Planning it out
After choosing a design I wanted to achieve, I took mouse to figma to see how it’d work with my guest list and what size i’d need to cut the boards to. A pro tip: 72px in figma = 1 inch in cricut design system. This helped me tremendously for designing these to scale.
Merging in the guest names
I wanted to make sure there were no typos or mistakes so I used figmas plugin “google sync” to do basically do what used to be called a "mail merge" in Microsoft Word>Excel :) This also saved me a lot of time.
Cutting the boards
I recruited my dad and Ethan to help cut these boards to the correct sizes in my plans.
Painting the boards
I went through many paint chips to figure out the color I wanted these. Once I decided, I had Home Depot color match (the paint department got to know me very well this year).
Cricutting the letters
Once I triple checked my figma file, I exported each column as an SVG and uploaded this to the cricut design space. Because I wanted everything perfectly spaced and straight, i did an entire column at a time. Even though this wasted some material, it saved me my time and sanity.
Applying the letters to the board
Once all the letters were cut. I measured how far from each edge I was going with this so that they’d look evenly spaced. Once we laid it out, it took a little arm muscle to transfer the letters onto the boards
Getting them to stand
The most difficult part! I had run out of time to execute this but thankfully my little brother saved me on my wedding day and woke up at the crack of dawn to apply the brackets. I used these shelf brackets which were super easy and worked great.
Voilà! Beautiful 7ft wedding signs
I received so many compliments on these signs. People are still shocked to this day that I made these at home! I had the best time creating these, I would love to do more! I have an entire pinterest board dedicated to large scale wedding signs, see it here. If you or anyone you know is getting married and needs help, contact me!
Oh PS...I didn't stop here
I had to have a full suite of decor, so I created more welcome signs, table numbers and custom tiles for each place setting!
