Whether you’re looking to save on your wedding budget or love DIY projects, this is for you! This simple project of making DIY personalized wedding hangers is perfect for your gown or as a gift for your bridesmaids.

Why make DIY wedding gown hangers?

I love DIYs … I really do! Especially when they are inexpensive, cute, and practical like these personalized wedding hangers.

Local bride Cortney Lovelace sent me this DIY, which she created for her own wedding.

DIY Personalized Wedding Hangers

Somewhere along the line of collecting wedding inspiration, I came across some pictures of personalized wedding dress hangers for your wedding dress.

You can buy them online on Etsy. But I decided to try my hand at making some personalized hangers for myself and for my bridesmaids.  Here is what I came up with.

These are actually really simple and easy to make.  Just pick up a pack of wooden hangers at the store (I bought the shirt hangers from Walmart for about $4.50/pack of 5).

If you are using them for dresses, make sure you buy the kind with the indentations for the strings that hold up the dresses.  You would hate to make these and then not have the dresses slip right off of them!

Supplies for Gown Hangers:

• Wooden Hanger(s)
• Paint
• Pencil
• Pen
• Computer and Printer
• Tape

Instructions for Personalized Hangers:

1. Print off your monogram, name, or whatever you want to put on your bridesmaid dress hanger from your computer.  I typed up all of my bridesmaids’ names and my new monogram in Word using the Lauren Script font and printed it on regular computer paper.

2. Next, cut out the names for your bridesmaid dress hangers.

3. Turn the cutout name over, and using a pencil, shade in the back. (Making sure that you cover the entire section where the name is on the opposite side).

4. Turn the paper back over and tape it to the wooden hanger.

5. Trace over the bridesmaid’s name with a ballpoint pen, pressing down hard. You can either trace the outline or cover the entire letter. Since my letters were fairly fat, I just traced the outline.

6. Take the paper off the hanger. You will now have an imprinted outline of the name from the lead rubbing off from the pencil marking on the back of the paper. (Sorry, I didn’t take pictures using the same hanger, but you still get the idea)

7. Fill in the outline of your bridesmaid’s name using a thin-tip paintbrush and paint. You could probably also do this with a permanent marker.

The result is beautiful hangers for yourself or bridesmaid dress hangers. So cute. By no means did these personalized hangers turn out perfect, but they still look wonderful in my opinion.

What a great DIY by a local bride. Cortney used her hanger to capture wedding photos of her wedding dress hanging. So elegant!

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