Hey guys! We want to bring you into our event signage process and show you a little bit about what creating your event sign with White Ink Calligraphy looks like. Whatever you are hosting or planning, we are well equipped and have everything on hand to tie your details together with the perfect sign.
“Why is event signage important?” Because it is not only decorative, it’s functional! You wouldn’t be expected to drive on a road without signs to guide you or explain a little bit about your surroundings. So, why would we do that to our guests? From table numbers to seating charts, to bar signs, guests can be confident about the goings on of an event because of the information our custom signage subtlety provides for them.
Our sweet couple, Camille and Daniel, asked White Ink to help provide their wedding guests with lots of great signage throughout their wedding day at Long Hollow Gardens. This gorgeous venue in Gallatin, Tennessee covers a lot of ground and has a lot to offer. So, bringing in signs to keep the crowd headed in the right direction and staying well-informed was a must and a very considerate addition to their big day!
White Ink put together some gorgeous pieces for Camille and Daniel. A customized seating chart, wedding welcome sign, and bar menu were just the start. We also provided our popular acrylic table numbers as well as one of our favorite items- the signage for the couple’s memorial table.
“How do we get started?” First, our clients will look over White Ink’s Request a Quote Form where they can fill us in on the types of event signage they’re looking for and provide the day-of details. From there, folks can view our inventory of rentals in the White Ink collection that are available; or they can choose to use their own signs that we can customize! On this form, we try to get ALL of the info we can in order to give clients the most accurate quote. If they aren’t sure about what signs are best for an event, we can help with that! Clients can even upload pics of some event signage inspo for us to see!
We also ensure the perfect way to get your event signs to you. Whether it’s coordinating with your planner for pick up or arranging the right time for your signage to be delivered, we’ve got you! Our team is the best at what we do. So, what’s your sign?
We are honored to help clients like Camille and Daniel achieve the wedding of their dreams. And we love the signs they chose to use on their big day! The White Ink team was happy to get to work for them and give them exactly the signs they were looking for. Cheers to this amazing couple!
I like to think Nashville and Chattanooga are secret BFFs. They each have big city vibes, southern hospitality, Tennessee charm, and are never too far away! Hannah and Alan allowed White Ink to help elevate their Chattanooga nuptials and we were thrilled to jump on board. They were an amazing couple to work with, from creating stunning reception details all the way down to transporting all the items from Nashville. What an honor it was to be a part of such a gorgeous wedding in such a lovely town.
Hannah and Alan chose The Common House for their wedding venue which had only opened its doors in Chattanooga a few months prior to the couple’s wedding date, making their wedding one of the first ones to take place at this location.
The most stunning part of this wedding, hands-down, was the endless display of floral arrangements! Flowers gushed through each carefully planned setting of Hannah and Alan’s big day, leaving us speechless.
The White Ink team was blown away when we saw how our couple displayed the seating chart that we customized for them. Can you blame us though? The floral backdrop that went along with this chart set it apart in a way that I’ve never seen before. Now THIS is how you display an acrylic seating chart! Showstopper vibes!
We provided Hannah and Alan with the table numbers for their reception, and we loved what they chose. The gold accents on each sign complimented the impressive tablescapes of florals and fine linen. Seeing how our work comes through for our couples on their wedding day is so very rewarding!
White Ink was also asked to create the menus along with the place cards which were perfectly pieced together with gold-colored wax seals. (Wax seals are kind of my favorite thing ever, just sayin’.) Details like these are an easy way to add a layer of elegance to any occasion.
This one was a magical one, guys. Flowers for days, lighting that could make the stars jealous, endless rose colors and gold accents: this is what we live for! We want to make designs and create details that go right along with the dreams that our couples have for their weddings. What can we create for your big day? What does your dream wedding look like?
Being given the opportunity to truly tap into my creative side makes me feel as free as the bubbles floating to the top of a champagne flute. The White Ink team was invited to take part in some seriously showstopping details for the wedding of our amazing couple, Molly and Killian.
Aside from making their vows at the former home of Reba McEntire, our couple wowed their guests with custom wedding details and designs that would be the topic of conversation for a long time to come.
Let’s jump right in to the seating chart wall, shall we? I mean LOOK at this gorgeous wall! If you want to make an impression, seating charts are a great place to start. White Ink designed the custom, laser-cut calligraphy title “Sip and Be Seated” for this showstopper of a seating chart.
Next, we created the escort cards to slip over the champagne flutes that lined the entire wall. (I love that I get to say that sentence). I appreciate the duality of using this wall as a way to seat your guests and get the cocktail hour started. Very clever!
White Ink customized Molly and Killian’s mirrored wedding welcome sign which was beautifully paired with florals that spilled over the edges. I honestly love when couples use their florals with signage like this. It’s always such a fantastic balance of softness and elegance.
Molly and Killian chose to use our table numbers that were designed with gold ink and completed with gold foil edges. These table numbers are some of my favorites from the White Ink collection!
Want to know what’s kind of the cutest thing ever? Bathroom selfie lettering! Imagine taking a moment for a quick wardrobe check and being greeted with the message, “Hey gorgeous, get back on the dance floor” written on the bathroom mirror. You wouldn’t have to tell me twice! Wedding receptions need this energy.
White Ink completed this dreamboat of a wedding by creating custom cocktail lettering! These are so, so fun to make. I absolutely love getting to do orders like this, partly because I know how much people are going to enjoy it. I promise you if this is ever something you choose to add to your cocktail hour, your guests will be impressed!
Cheers to the happy couple! And thank you for all the timeless wedding inspo!
It makes my calligrapher heart so happy to see White Ink’s work go beyond the Nashville scene. We love to reach out as far as we can, leaving our mark on the events and weddings that our clients have worked so hard to pull together. This time we found ourselves in the dreamiest corner of Kentucky, with the sweetest couple we could’ve hoped for. I’ve been so excited to share these moments from Adair and Andrew’s charming Kentucky wedding with you!
Want to know the best way to boost the décor of your wedding? Mirrors! Mirrors take on a very delicate and unassuming role in the world of décor. They can flawlessly and beautifully fill any space in nearly any event. White Ink has an amazing collection of mirrors for our brides and grooms to use and customize for their weddings. When it comes to making good use of the versatility that our mirror collection provides, Adair and Andrew understood the assignment.
Check out how adorable our round ornamented mirror looks beside the card box. I love that they chose signage to help highlight what the guests would find at this table. I feel like this sweet little mirror and card box were made for each other! So, so perfect.
As if walking underneath a canopy of holly trees to find their seat wasn’t breathtaking enough, guests were swept away with the tender lyrics of one the most well-known love songs ever. We customized this gorgeous mirror to read, “Take my hand, Take my whole life too.” I mean, it’s enough to turn anyone into a complete puddle, right? Our bride and groom also used a custom mirror at their cake and dessert table with the lyrics, “How sweet it is to be loved by you.” I cannot think of a better way to add romance to your wedding décor. Additionally, Adair and Andrew chose one of our favorite mirrors that we custom made to use as their welcome sign, and I love the uniqueness of the frame for this sign. The outdoors of Kentucky worked as the perfect setting for it.
Our couples can never go wrong when choosing these beautiful, tall, standing mirrors to customize their seating chart. There’s something about their beautiful thin gold frames that makes the wording just pop! But I think my new favorite thing is really starting to be the photo guestbook signage. It’s kind of the cutest idea ever and our couples can walk away with instant lasting memories. (It’s the cute little camera on this mirror for me!)
Ok guys, from the castle, to the gardens, to the string quartet and everything in between (including some tasty McDonald’s fries), this wedding was seriously straight out of a fairytale. Our White Ink team was so thrilled with how our details turned out for Adair and Andrew. To say the least, we are proud to be a part of this Kentucky dream!
I absolutely love getting a chance to show you guys projects that White Ink does that are completely outside of the wedding scene. It’s a great opportunity for us to remind folks that calligraphy belongs in any event!
One of Nashville’s top lifestyle-influencers and bloggers, Hunter Premo, reached out to White Ink for help in personalizing the coolest first birthday party we’ve ever seen! This day was all about Remy, the birthday boy. His first birthday seriously blew us away. And our team had a ton fun creating some unique pieces that are sure to bring a bit of birthday inspo to you.
Let’s go to summer camp! This camp-themed birthday was filled with all the nostalgia any summer camp lover could ask for with activities like archery, fishing, workshop, bounce house, watering hole (bar), even a reptile petting station! White Ink got to create the wooden activity signs that were perfectly situated against one of the trees on the property. This definitely made for a great conversation piece. (The owners liked them so much they actually kept them up long after the party was over.)
White Ink’s touch could be spotted throughout “camp” as we created special signage at many of the stations. The adventure sign broke down all of the scheduled activities for the day, which turns out to be a really helpful source when there is such a young audience to entertain. Campers of all ages could enjoy refreshments with lemonades for the little campers and cocktails for the more mature campers! We loved getting to make this sign, so cute!
My personal favorite was the table for Remy’s “time capsule”. We did the sign for this station asking folks to write down a message for Remy to open on his 18th birthday. How awesome is that! I wonder what words of wisdom he’ll smile at when he reads them.
White Ink Calligraphy has the best clients in the world! We love it when we get to keep celebrating some of the biggest moments throughout their lives. Remy, we hope your day was filled with all of the love and wonder you deserve. We were so happy just to be a part of it!
White Ink is no stranger to our neighbors to the north. Kentucky has our heart for many reasons, and we happily add the nuptials of Kathryn and Will to that list. Their wedding took place on Kathryn’s family property, and this wasn’t White Ink’s first appearance at the charming Kentucky home. Only a few years before, Kathryn’s sister also married at this home and asked us to put our creative touch on her wedding. You can imagine our excitement when we got the call to come back! If you’ve ever seen a Kentucky sunset, you might understand exactly why we jumped at a second chance to showcase our work in the bluegrass state.
Every wedding is one of a kind. Like a fingerprint, every couple is unique and expresses themselves in their own unique ways on their big day. Still, some things are worth holding on to and some ideas are worth borrowing. We were delighted that Kathryn and Will wanted to use the same wood boards that Kathryn’s sister used to display their seating chart. Kathryn had them sanded down and restained for her wedding. This isn’t just any seating chart display; these wooden boards stand at a massive eight feet tall! But we didn’t want to just reuse this display, we wanted to add some serious flare to these babies. Hello gold foil flakes! Yeah, about that sunset we mentioned- take a look at how it turned these seating charts into pure magic.
Kathryn and Will allowed us to put together some other really fun details for their wedding celebration. Usually when people think about calligraphy, they think of invites or signage; but calligraphers can do SO much more! Check out the cups and koozies our team put together for this fabulous couple. We not only like stepping outside of the usual requests, but we look forward to it. I personally love that Kathryn and Will included their sweet pups in the details!
There’s something about Kentucky; maybe it’s the sunset, perhaps it’s the landscape. But I’m thinking it has something to do with the people, people like Kathryn and Will. We were invited to celebrate with this awesome family for a second time, and that’s a very special thing to us. Cheers!