September 15, 2026
Yes, but the best time to plan its second use is before the sign is made. The material you choose now determines whether your wedding welcome sign can be refinished, resized, re-engraved, or rebuilt after the reception. A lightweight printed sign may offer few options beyond framing or storage. A thoughtfully constructed hardwood sign can become something you use in your home for years.
With Vows to Vittles, Coonhound Woodworks creates a two-panel maple welcome sign for your wedding. After the celebration, you return the panels to our workshop. We remove the original engraving and rebuild the wood as a cutting-board set, personalized wall sign, or custom home décor.
Most couples choose their welcome sign by considering the wording, colors, size, and wedding theme. What happens after the reception is often left unanswered.
That can leave you with a large personalized sign and nowhere suitable to put it. Thinking about the second use early changes the buying decision. Instead of asking only, “How will this look at the wedding?” ask:
You do not need to decide every detail immediately. Choosing the general direction helps the maker plan the original sign around what comes next.
Wedding welcome signs are made from many materials, but they do not offer the same reuse possibilities.
| Sign material | Likely options after the wedding |
| Solid hardwood | Refinish, resize, re-engrave, or rebuild it as wall décor or suitable household pieces |
| Plywood or MDF | Paint over it, add new lettering, frame it, or use it as decorative art |
| Acrylic | Remove replaceable lettering, add a new design, or reuse it for another event |
| Foam board | Frame it, save part in a memory box, photograph it, or recycle it where accepted |
| Fabric | Turn it into a wall hanging, decorative banner, or memory-box lining |
| Chalkboard | Use it as a menu board, household message board, or sign for future celebrations |
If you want the sign to become more than a framed keepsake, solid hardwood provides more room for professional transformation.
Coonhound Woodworks builds every Vows to Vittles display from face-grain hard maple laminated from solid 3-inch-wide strips. The material and dimensions are selected with both the wedding display and the second build in mind.
Explore What Your Wedding Sign Could Become
The original Vows to Vittles display consists of two vertical panels. Each panel measures 72 inches tall × 12 inches wide × 3/4 inch thick.
After the wedding, the panels return to our Cumming workshop. We remove the original engraving, refinish the maple, and use a material-efficient cutting plan to create four working boards:
A large board for briskets, roasts, holiday turkeys, and other substantial cuts. It includes an approximately 1/4-inch perimeter groove to help contain juices.
Suitable for everyday meal preparation, slicing meat, and cutting bread. It also includes a perimeter juice groove.
A practical size for vegetables, sandwiches, and routine countertop tasks.
Made for citrus, garnishes, cheese, and smaller preparation jobs.
Each board is sanded smooth and conditioned with food-grade mineral oil and board wax. This option does more than preserve the sign as a memory. It places the same maple in your kitchen, where it can become part of meals and gatherings throughout married life.
Beyond cutting boards, we transform the original maple into refined, custom-made décor designed to belong in a particular place in your home.
We replace the original welcome message with a design that fits your home. The new engraving could include:
You can select the finished dimensions, design, and layout with the workshop.
The panels can be reshaped into one larger decorative piece. This may work well for an entryway, dining room, living room, or another space where you want the design to stand out.
The maple can also become several smaller pieces planned for different rooms or arranged together as one display. The size, form, finish, and engraving can be based on where you intend to place them.
Not sure which option fits your home? Start by telling us where you want to use the finished piece. Rick can plan the second design around the space and the maple available.
The wood does not have to carry the wedding memory by itself. Selected flowers from the bridal bouquet, groom’s boutonnière, or ceremony arrangements can be preserved in clear epoxy and incorporated into the finished design. You only need to send a few selected blooms or petals rather than the complete arrangement.
Before work begins, we confirm:
This brings two parts of the wedding into one keepsake: the maple displayed at the venue and the flowers carried or seen during the ceremony.
Vows to Vittles is completed in two stages.
Send your wedding date, names, venue information, preferred wording, and any artwork or scenery you want included.
Review how the lettering and artwork will appear across the two six-foot maple panels.
Use the finished sign at the ceremony entrance, reception, photo area, or another suitable part of the venue.
Follow the packaging and shipping instructions included with your order or arrange a local return to our Cumming workshop.
Confirm what the panels will become, along with the dimensions, engraving, layout, finish, and any floral details.
We remove the original engraving, rebuild and finish the maple, and send the completed pieces to your home.
A wedding welcome sign does not need to become another large item; you must find room to store it.
Choose a sign built for more than the reception. Coonhound Woodworks works with couples looking for custom wedding signs in Cumming, Lawrenceville, Holly Springs, and across North Georgia. Bring us the wedding details and an idea of what you want the maple to become afterward.
Start Planning Your Wedding Sign
You can display it as wall art, replace the original lettering, reuse it for another celebration, or turn suitable hardwood into cutting boards or custom décor.
Depending on the wood and its condition, the sign may be sanded, resized, refinished, and engraved with a new design.
Yes. At Coonhound Woodworks, we can transform the original maple into a personalized wall sign or refined custom décor designed for a particular place in your home.
Only when its wood, construction, adhesives, and finish are suitable. Our Vows to Vittles signs are built from hard maple specifically so the panels can return to our workshop and become a four-piece cutting-board set after the wedding.
Solid hardwood offers some of the widest reuse possibilities because it can often be resurfaced, resized, and re-engraved. Acrylic and chalkboard signs may also be reused when their original lettering is removable.
Wedding flowers can be pressed, framed, placed in a shadow box, or preserved in resin. Selected blooms or petals may also be incorporated into custom wood décor using clear epoxy.
