Hand Lettered Wedding Menu DIY Framed in Glass

Hand-lettered wedding menu DIY in a glass frame.
Try this “cheat” method of hand lettering.
Then frame with or without dried flowers.

 

Hand-Lettered Wedding Menu DIY

Most of you will say you can’t hand letter.  Full disclosure: we can’t either. Not well enough to freehand such a special diy. So we invented a “cheat” method, which may or may not have actual hand-lettering. We use artist’s gray graphite tracing paper to get the letters onto the handmade paper, then write over the tracing.

 

Supplies:

• Handmade, deckle edge paper*, 8.25″ x 5.5″
• Computer generated lettering, printed on lightweight printer paper
• Black fine point permanent marker or another favorite pen
• Gray graphite transfer paper* Note: one piece of this paper lasts me many projects and many years.
• Glass floating frame like this one* or this one* or a piece of live edge wood*
• Plate stand* for displaying the frame.

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Directions:

1. Open your word program on the computer. We use Microsoft Publisher, but any word program works.
2. Create a text box sized 7.5″ x 4.5″ and choose fonts that look like hand-lettering. Create the menu.
3. Print the menu on lightweight paper. Cut down to size.
4. Make a tracing “sandwich” with the handmade paper on the bottom, the tracing paper with the graphite side down, and the menu pattern you just printed on top. Trace the lettering.
5. Take the sandwich apart, and carefully write on top of the tracing on the handmade paper.
6. Your handmade paper menu is ready to frame.

 

 

How to Display Your Hand-Lettered Menu

If you choose to frame your menu in glass, you can use the method we explain in this post.

Dried flowers are a very popular trend right now, and they work especially well for winter weddings. If you press and dry your own flowers you have very little cost, and they can match any fresh flowers you’ll be using.

You can even handmake your own wedding invitations with dried flowers. It would involve time, but not that much extra money.

 

 

 

There may not be a wall available at your wedding venue to prop the menu sign against. You can use a metal plate stand for the metal edged floating glass frames.

The wood framed signs could be too bulky for a plate stand. Our suggestion for wood frames is these metal EZ back easels*. They would be almost completely hidden behind the frame since they attach only to the bottom edge of the frame. Attaching 2 of them would make your frame practically untippable!

The metal EZ Back Easels would also be a great prop for a live edge wood sign.

 

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