Handbuilt in Greenville, South Carolina

Wedding & event sign rentals, made for your day.

Welcome signs, seating chart walls, ceremony backdrops, and custom wood pieces from our family shop. Explore the collection, then tell us your date and venue.

Check your dateExplore the collection

We start by email. A call or online meeting can follow if helpful.
Customer pickup and return has no transport fee. Quoted delivery starts at $75.

Styled design render of a natural wood arched welcome panel on a riser with flowers and candles
Styled design render. Finish, lettering, and included items are confirmed in your written quote.

Rentals

Handbuilt pieces, made for your day

Every rental piece is handbuilt in our shop and reserved for your event — weddings, showers, anniversaries, and every celebration in between. After we confirm availability, a 50% deposit confirms rental bookings, and every piece is quoted for your date and design. Choose from natural white oak, walnut stain, painted cream, a blackened frame, or a color quoted for your day. See each piece for details and finish ideas. All dates and final specifications require confirmation.

Custom pieces

Don’t see what you’re looking for?

Describe the sign you have in mind — a shape, a size for your venue, a color to match your palette — and we’ll build it to order and send you a quote.

Describe your custom sign

These are styled design renders of the pieces in our collection. Real shop and wedding photographs replace them as they become available. Want something you don’t see? Tell us what you’re after — we build custom pieces to order and send a quote.

Our family shop

Handbuilt by Will and Steen Smith.

Smith Made is a family woodworking shop in Greenville, South Carolina. We build wood signage and event pieces to rent for your agreed rental period, plus custom commissions and keepsakes to own.

Choose a design from the collection or tell us about a custom piece. We confirm the size, finish, personalization, transport, and price in writing before you book.

Planning for a client or venue? Explore our planner and venue details. For your guest list, start with the seating chart checklist.

How It Works

From our shop to your celebration

Weddings, showers, parties, corporate events — any event, any day of the week. We only take what one shop can deliver well in a day. Tell us your date and we’ll work around it.

Step One

Pick your pieces

Browse the collection, then tell us your date, your venue, and what caught your eye. We’ll confirm the date is free and send a simple quote.

Step Two

Book it with 50%

After we confirm availability and your written quote, your deposit locks your date on our calendar and holds the pieces for your agreed rental period — plus any lettering or engraved plaque you’ve asked for.

Step Three

Choose your handoff

Customer pickup and return has no transport fee. Or add Smith Made delivery, standard pickup, or a quoted late-night pickup. We confirm the service, access, and route miles in writing before you book.

Step Four

Return, pickup, or keep it

Customer-return rentals are due by noon the next day. Standard and after-hours Smith Made pickup follow the service on your quote. Keepsake pieces go home with you, forever.

Pricing & Policies

Straightforward, in writing

Every piece is quoted for your date, size, and design — tell us what caught your eye and we’ll send your price in writing, usually within a day or two. The fine print — deposits, proofs, damage, payment — lives here, in plain words.

Choose your handoff

Customer pickup & return has no transport fee.

Collect by appointment and return by noon the day after your event. We share the exact Greenville-area handoff point after booking, not a private address. Bring a suitable vehicle; the rental damage deposit still applies.

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Ask about pickup

  • Delivery starts at $75 within 15 road miles of Greenville. Choose delivery with customer return or a purchased keepsake; Smith Made standard pickup also starts at $75 within 15 road miles. Delivery plus standard pickup starts at $150.
  • Distance is calculated per service trip. Beyond 15 road miles, add $2.25 per additional one-way venue mile for delivery and pickup separately. Each service fee is rounded up to the nearest $5, and final route miles appear in the written quote.
  • After-hours pickup is quoted clearly. Pickup after 9 p.m. adds $75; pickup at or after midnight adds $125 instead. Oversize or two-person handling, stairs or difficult access, setup or styling, strict venue windows, and venues beyond 50 road miles receive a custom quote.
  • 50% deposit books your date. It holds the pieces for your agreed rental period and starts any lettering or custom work. Non‑refundable inside 60 days of the event.
  • Refundable damage deposit on rentals. $100 (or 25% of the rental price), returned after pickup inspection. Candle wax washes off; we just check.
  • Your wording, approved in writing. Any lettering, engraved plaque, or paint color gets a free proof, and you sign off before we make it. No surprises on your biggest day.
  • Buying a rental piece is a commission. Our statement pieces live in the collection and go out weekend after weekend. If you want to keep one, we build you your own — purchase pricing reflects a piece made to be owned, not a piece coming out of the rotation.
  • Simple, safe payment. Invoices come through Square or PayPal (goods & services). The balance is due at delivery — never before you’ve seen the piece.

Questions

Asked & answered

What are the pickup and delivery options?

Customer pickup and return by appointment has no transport fee; return is due by noon the next day, and we share the exact handoff point after booking. Smith Made delivery starts at $75 within 15 road miles of Greenville, and standard pickup starts at $75 within 15 road miles. Beyond that radius, each delivery or pickup trip adds $2.25 per additional one-way venue mile and is rounded up to the nearest $5. After-hours, difficult-access, setup, and long-distance service are quoted separately.

How far ahead should we book?

We service any event, any day of the week — and we only take what one shop can deliver well in a day. Spring and fall dates go first — if you have your date, it’s worth checking now. The 50% deposit is what locks it.

Can we personalize a rental piece?

Yes, and we handle it case‑by‑case. Your names and date go on a separate engraved piece of wood that mounts to the sign — a plaque, a nameboard, a chalkboard insert — so the rental arrives personalized to you and the piece underneath is never cut into. We don’t engrave the sign itself unless you’re buying it; deep‑carved engraving is for pieces that go home with you. Tell us what you have in mind and we’ll say exactly what we can do for your date.

What happens if something gets damaged?

Rentals carry a refundable damage deposit — $100 or 25% of the rental price — returned after pickup inspection. Normal wear is our problem, not yours. Tell us any venue documentation requirements when you inquire; we will confirm what is available before you book.

Do you build things that aren’t for weddings?

Happily. Anniversary and “established” signs, housewarming pieces, holiday commissions — winter is build season in the shop. Use the inquiry form and tell us what you’re imagining.

Start with an email inquiry

Tell us about your event.

Send the form and we’ll confirm whether your date is open and put a simple quote together — usually within a day or two. We reply by email first. If helpful, we can arrange a call or online meeting after that. Prefer email? Write to us directly at will.smithmade@gmail.com.

What happens next? We check the calendar against your date and reply with a simple quote — usually within a day or two. Custom pieces get a sketch with the quote.

Serving Greenville, Spartanburg, Anderson, Clemson, and Asheville, NC — by customer pickup or quoted Smith Made transport.

Which pieces caught your eye?
How should the piece travel?

See delivery costs before choosing. We confirm the final route and scope in your quote.

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