Tikis in Paradise: On Hold

Don't worry, there's still lots more from our Tiki Wedding Extravaganza coming soon to you! We've just needed a little time off from all things wedding created. Especially after our big Portland celebration. We'll be posting more photographs, DIY projects and recaps as soon as we've had a little rest. Until then, hang loose!

DIY: Retro Wood Wedding Signs

This was another easy DIY project that pretty much anyone can do. It's much cheaper than buying them off of Etsy or anywhere else, that's for sure. We had a bunch of wood flats lying around for Drew to build us a chicken coop and thought they would be perfect to make some retro wood wedding signs. It saved us some more funds not having to buy the wood. If you don't have any wood you can use at your house, I recommend going to Home Depot to get some and have them cut it for you. It's much cheaper than getting sign pieces at Michael's or any other craft store. Hey, us DIY brides are all about saving money, right?

Nicki and I designed the words for the signs. She had the font for some of them and I had the font for the others so we just split the task in half. I printed them all out, measured them and gave the measurements to Drew to cut the wood for the signs.

I picked up some cheap acrylic red craft paint at a craft store to paint the signs. The cheaper paint the better for this project. I diluted the paint with water and gave it to Drew to paint on with a little sponge brush. To get the desired color we were going for we had to apply the paint 3 times. Drew, Nicki and I all applied a layer.

Drew adding the first layer of paint while out at the beach house.