Baseball Theme Weddings
"There are only two seasons — winter and Baseball."
— Bill Veeck
You've figured it out — you both want to play on the same team for life. But how to play to the cheering crowd when it comes to your wedding day?
Here are a few tips for a wedding Lou Gehrig would love ... and a whole lot of experience below from hype-creative fans.
Note to Guests: You've Got Box Seats
Try eBay for helpful stationers who can whip up elegant, personalized baseball theme wedding invitations. Or be super-chic and send your guests custom event tickets that look just like the real thing.
Baseball Decor
Decor doesn't have to be hard. Try centerpieces featuring roses in your team colors. Chicago Cubs fan? Try red and white hand-tied bouquets in vases you've tied off with royal blue ribbon. Attach a handsome enameled team pin to the center of a bow, and you've got an elegant arrangement.Another fun idea: fill large clear vases with mini baseballs, and top with floral "baseballs" made of densely petaled flowers, like white carnations. Adorable!
Got a sweet tooth? A candy buffet in your colors can be a bold and beckoning statement. Concession picks are perfect here — so are local city treats. Don't forget to fill a jar or two (or scatter the linens) with a few chocolate baseballs. Personalizing striped takeout or pillow boxes with a cute custom label is half the fun. Or, go upscale and yet still stay on theme with a gourmet popcorn bar (Dale & Thomas is a decadent favorite).
Then, dress up your tables with elegant vintage baseball cards — or simply name them after leading lights from your favorite team.
Don't forget the ceremony! A treasured mitt makes a wonderful ring pillow. And for fabulous photos, exit under a shower of pennants .... or ask your best men to line the chapel steps so you can duck beneath an "arch of bats" as husband and wife.
Last but not least — hand your guests some Sharpies and have them sign a few baseballs or a handsome bat instead of the usual (yawn!) guest book.
A Moveable Feast
Create an unforgettable cocktail hour and bring the astroturf indoors by offering a few outdoor vending classics to your delighted guests — available at major rental stores: soft pretzels with mustard and cheese (or nachos & cheese), ballpark franks, movie-style popcorn, or salt water taffy in waxed paper bags with personalized labels. The carts make these fabulous.For the non-drinkers, serve up personalized bottled water ... and classic Coke with real sugar (no corn syrup!) in glass bottles. This will get guests cheering for days.
A fun addition to cocktail hour? Mock up some "sports news sections" to take to the printers, with headlines starring you and your honey:
Mark
and Tori Named CCAC Couple of the Year
Baseball's Winningest Couple Returns To [Hometown]
Tori Selected To The NAIA True Love Team
Mark Earns Top Hitter, Matrimonial Distinction
Needless to say, happy stats and headlines like these are best served with fresh-cut cigars.
Baseball Favors
The baseball theme's a cinch to pull off when it comes to favors. Here are some fun ones:
If your guest list's intimate, offer up baseball caps for your beloved Cubs or Red Sox on a table near the door. Or, old-fashioned Crackers Jacks in the boxes makes a head-turning treat.
Team-emblazoned cookies or individual cupcakes can really dress to impress when whipped up by talented pastry artists. Set up a baseball-themed candy buffet. Or, hand out bags of favorite hometown treats: Cubs branded peanuts, Boston Baked Beans. Attach a cute tag with a favor saying, such as You Made Our Wedding A Hit or Our Love Hit A Home Run.
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Hi! I want to do a candy buffet but with a baseball twist. We are not going to be having any children at the wedding so I want to be careful with what I choose. I was thinking pretzels, popcorn, peanuts and cracker jacks. Does anyone have any other suggestions? What would you want to see? Also- what is something baseball inspired for the guests to put their selections in?
My fiance and I are serving hamburgers, hot dogs, nachos, peanuts, cotton candy, cracker jacks….serving our meat in hot dog boats and nachos in nacho boats, peanuts n cotton candy will be bagged and cracker jacks in nostalgic boxes (sold at walmart during july 4th cheap)…….we also tossed around the ideas of popcorn, sun flower seeds and bubble gum. Hope that helps some
Hi,
My daughter loved this idea! She will use a cake made like a baseball diamond. Her fiance’ is a coach, so we will incorporate hi school colors. You can find individually wrapped crackerjacks, etc.
This will be more fun than a fancy candy bar!
Does anyone know where I can find individually wrapped/personalized cracker jack boxes!
all brides,
i found a real wedding with a baseball theme reception, check it out!!
*chicago real wedding post
Hey! We’re doing a baseball themed wedding too and would like to do printed baseballs as favors. Suggestions on where to order? I can’t seem to find anything good.
Thanks!!
We did printed baseballs. we had the date and our names on one side. We scanned our signatures and put them on the other side. So it looked like we autographed the ball. I got them at minisportsball.com the price depends on how much you buy. We had a big wedding (250) but with screen charge I think it came out to be about 2.50 a ball. They do have specials too. If I come across some pictures I will post them.
Thank you so much!!
Love all the ideas. We are using round paper lanterns in the center of the dance floor since they look like baseball.
Still looking for a unique idea for the card box. Thanks, Linda
Hi everyone…my fiance and I are working on a baseball themed wedding reception. I would still like it to be a classier type affair…so I don’t know if I want to do the ticket stub invites. Did anyone use a baseball themed invite that was more classic/elegant?
I was thinking of having a Mets theme for our wedding and was wondering if anyone had any ideas.
Ok,
I was debating if I should put our pictures on line, but our photographer did a great blog summary of our baseball wedding. And it is out there for the world already… We did a baseball theme and he has great pictures of the cake & topper. Let me know ifyou have any questions on what we did…
i would love to see! my fiance is a college baseball coach and has played all his life, so i would love to incorporate the sport in a classy way.
I am thinking about using a baseball theme for our wedding. Could you please send me a picture of your wedding cake.
Thank you very much
Darci B
little_d729@hotmail.com
My Fiance and I are mapping out our Red Sox themed wedding (we got engaged at fenway). I am looking for elegant ways to pull this off, if anyone has pictures or a website to view please let me know thanks!
I am doing the same. Did you know there is a bridal show at Fenway Park (if you are in the area) on Sept 27th. The brunch is supposed to discuss planning a themed wedding. Don’t know if there are tickets left, but worth looking into it maybe. Good luck!
I am doing a Cubs baseball themed wedding! I was just wondering if anyone had any other ideas for introduction songs besides “GO CUBS GO”. I guess it doesnt necessarily have to be baseball! I just need some ideas and this website has been AMAZING for ideas!! It makes planning your perfect day even easier!!
Hi,
We had our bridal party introduced to “All Star” by Smashmouth. As a part of their gifts, I got picture frames at Hallmark that played that song too. Nobody understood it until the wedding :)
In the programs, we also used the title “All Stars” instead of “Bridal party” and “MVP’s” for the MOH/Best Man. Our parents were “Coaches” But then, we took the theme pretty far!
This sounds so cool. What did you use for the card box?
Hello,
I’m planning my small engagement party in my backyard. We met at a softball field so we would like that to be our theme and create our backyard to look like a stadium or at least close to it. Do you have any suggestions on decorations or party favors?
By the way, we have a pool in the center of our yard.
Thank you
You all have such wonderful ideas! My older sister is getting married and I’m her maid of honor so I’m looking for some ideas for her bridal shower since she wants to keep the actual wedding pretty traditional. I was thinking of cupcakes decorated as baseballs instead of cake. Any ideas for decorations that can incorporate baseball but keep it classy? I’d appreciate it, good luck to you all!!
I think the cupcakes are a great idea! As far as decorations go, my girls kept is minimal, with 2 balloon bunches - red & white balloons & 1 had a red Sox mylar balloon & the other had a bridal shower one. 1 was going to go on either side of the couch we were sitting on.
They also did themed baskets as centerpieces, which doubled as giveaways. 1 was Red sox themed & the others were other interests we have (where we went on the honeymoon, patriots, gardening, etc.)
They also got the mini baseball heltmets that they use at the parks for ice cream and filled them with candies tied up in tulle. Those were the favors, which I loved!
Do you by any chance know where they got the mini baseball helmets from??? I really wanted to use them as favors and fill them with the blue and silver foiled hershey kisses…but i havent been able to fine them anywhere!!! Thanks!
Does anyone have any ideas for yankee favors? We got engaged at the last game at yankee stadium. Thanks!
You could do bottles of Yankee hot sauce or bags of Yankee peanuts.
http://www.hotsaucewholesale.com/sauces.cfm?catid=45
http://www.newyorkfirst.com/gifts/9192.html
M&M has personalized candies, you can put the team logo on it, your picture or just sayings.
hey,
for our wedding we put out peanuts & cracker jacks. The bags of peanuts were piled in a big tin Red Sox bucket, but to be honest, you couldn’t even see that.
For my shower, the girls got mini baseball helmets & filled them with Hershey kisses wrapped in tulle. They were cute!
I loved your pictures. Where did you get your cake topper?
Hi Linda,
Sorry for the delay! I ordered the cake topper from a website called Angel Kind
Charity was so sweet! And her prices are great!
Hey! My fiance is having a difficult time coming up with groomsmen gifts. He doesn’t want to give the same gifts that everyone gives. It doesnt have to be baseball themed, as they are not all Cubs fans. If anyone has any great unique ideas, please let me know! Thanks!
you can get a personalized baseball bat at this site. http://www.goweddinggifts.com/gc187.html You could always put yalls wedding date, or just a short line of thanks to the groomsmen. I think we might use these baseball cufflinks as our gifts : http://www.classiccufflinks.com/index.php?cat=baseball%20cufflinks. Hope this helps some!
I was thinking about the baseball cufflinks as well, some of them can be quite classy looking and it would give them a reminder of your big day when they used them.
I love them!
Hi Ashley,
We had a baseball themed wedding. We gave the guys baseball cufflinks(just the baseballs no teams), the hope was for them to wear at the wedding but I don’t know if that happened. A insulated cooler tub with their initials(the ones you can take for tailgating) We also gave them a pilsner glass etched with their names and the wedding date, but on the bottom of the pilsner was a baseball.
My fiance and I are both huge baseball fans. I was born a Cardinals fan and am staying true to my team even if he is a Cubs fan. We wanted to incorporate baseball into our wedding without being cheesy about it. Plus when it comes down to it I am a girl and I want my girlie wedding. We decided on baseball tickets for our save the dates. We are getting married next April so right around opening day so it works out perfectly. Also instead of using a pic of a stadium we are using one of us at a game and wearing our teams colors. Also one last thing that we did is we are having our wedding at 4:10 pm b/c we all know that baseball games never start at the top of the hour. Oh and he is having a cubs hat on home plate for his grooms cake. It was featured in a bridal magazine and he fell in love with it so he is getting that. He is also giving personalize bats for grooms gifts and we are going to a local baseball field to have some pics taken on the day of our wedding. These are just a few of our ideas so we can incorporate our love for the game but still keep the classic wedding look that I am dreaming of. Please if anyone has any other ideas let me know. And I hope that maybe I have given a few ideas to some of you. Congrats to all on you big day. Take care.
I wanted to have a girlie wedding but also incorporate baseball too since we are both huge baseball fans. We are having a traditional wedding cake but with a cake topper of a bride and groom playing baseball. During the cake cutting we are wearing personalized baseball jerseys in our favorite team with our last name and our wedding day on the backs. We are also asking all our guests to bring a hat and/or baseball cap of their favorite team to wear as they enter the reception because we are having a wedcarpet entrance. Check the website out red carpet runway Its basically like walking the red carpet and we customized the back drop to have our names wedding date and our two favorite baseball teams. Everything else I have in my wedding is totally girlie but I wanted to include baseball to be fun and unique. I can’t wait to see how are guest are going to like it.
My fiance made our wedding website. were getting married August 1,2009
http://www.smithmaceywedding.com
Were doing classic baseball. Each table will be named after a baseball player. i.e. table 3 Babe Ruth etc.. Our favors will be baseballs with our wedding date and our names on it. Were having a comedian who can impressionate Harry Kalus( hall of fame announcer/ Phillies announcer) to announce our wedding party.Always looking for more ideas to make this wedding fun but classic too.
I too am looking for “classic baseball” ideas. I saw your website and love it. One thing I noticed was that both you and your fiance love different teams; I have the same thing… I love the Yanks, my future husband loves the Cubs. I’m looking for ways to incorporate both teams without making it look like a carnival. What sort of advice or ideas/decor are you going with?
Thanks.
still looking for the way to get a baseball ticket as an invitation. can anyone help?
Hi, Brian
I think you are going have to make them yourself, I haven’t seen any invitation tickets. This site advertises baseball themed invitation, not tickets. For my wedding I made tickets for the place cards, invitations would have been too much, don’t forget you would also need a response card etc. I will be on the look out for them for you. Good Luck
Hi Brian,
I’ve designed the attached placecard for several weddings and have customized them into invitations for a few brides. I’d be happy to help you if you’re interested. I can be reached at christina_walsh@verizon.net. Good luck with the rest of your planning!
Christina
Brian,
I made my own. The picture is attached. The bottom will be perforated, so our guests can tear it off & mail it back. They are sized to a regular business size envelope. Of course, you could change the theme & pictures to make it appropriate for any team.
Hope this helps!
Amanda
Hey Amanda,
I was wondering if you had a template or something for your baseball ticket and how did you get the perforation. Let me know! I am very interested in using that as my RSVP cards! GREAT IDEA!! By the way, mine is CUBS though, so I would have to change that! Thank you!
Sorry! I don’t have a template. When I send them out to have the copies made, I will have them perforated at the print shop. I would be happy to help you put something together if you want to email me. Now that I have it set up it wouldn’t take long to switch the pictures & change the words. Feel free to email me….. amanda100172@yahoo.com
HI Amanda,
Love your baseball ticket and that your a red sox fan…we are getting married at fenway next year and I would love to do something like this for an invitation
Kim
You ROCK. Im working on a willy wonka theme and I can buy my golden tickets from here! THANKS
http://www.favorideas.com/shopping/prod/BWM000247.htm
I found this site and they have a pack of 10 tickets for $15, kinda spendy but it gives you the look of a venue ticket.
hi brides, i found some unique wedding cakes. i also saw a where a baseball theme wedding would use their fave team colors as the color scheme in their wedding florals right down to the bouquet.
does anyone know where I can get a redsox ticket template from? Thanks for all your help and ideas, this site is wonderful! my email is eeh1204@gmail.com
Does anyone know where I can find the pics of the catcher who had his wedding featured on theknot.com? It was posted on here a while ago and I really liked the colors.
Also- I want to have small vases with mini baseballs in them. Any suggestions or ideas on making the mini baseballs? Should I just order them?
liz, i would just order the mini baseballs. also go to theknot.com and in search box type in baseball theme weddings it should have it there in the gallery.
brides, couple of pics froma real wedding i just saw an here are some links from theknot.com they have baseball theme weddings just type baseball weddings in search box and voila!! photo galleries!
* NY Yankee Themed Wedding
* Anne & Brandon’s Baseball Wedding
* Jen & Andy
Oh, and the pics were found at this link….
* Autumn in Awe
Hello,
Me and my fiance are planning to get married during one of his softball tournaments since that is where we met. Any ideas on anything, I don’t have any clues. And we are getting married in Feb of 09. HELP!!! Thanks so much. You can contact me at terryandsarahdarling@hotmail.com
I made trading card Save the Date cards through this website - http://www.customsportscards.com. You can also make baseball cards as a wedding favor. They do a great job and the prices are reasonable. If you want to see a sample of mine I can email it to you. Congrats! Me and my fiance met playing softball as well!
Katie,
my fiance and i are trying to incorporate a baseball theme into our wedding. can i see a sample of your save the dates? my email is Lotitero1@aol.com
thanks!
jenny