Baseball Theme Weddings

allie!

thanks so much for responding! sorry i had two comments consecutively, but i didn’t think the first one went through…i was at work and didn’t have much to do so i wanted to get the important things done! lol…anyway, thanks again..i just ordered them..i got the red sox shirts and had husband 20 and wife 08…our wedding date is 9/5/08…and i wanted to get the world series shirts but they didn’t have them in women’s—we were engaged at game 1 of the world series…that idea went out the window so i fell on plan b….thanks again! i really appreciate your creativity!!

hey allie…

love the idea of those shirts! where did you get them done?? i would love that to my baseball themed wedding….thanks!

Hi All

These ideas are great and have been so helpful for our May 24th baseball themed wedding…I wanted to post what we are doing…Peanuts, cracker jacks and big league chew will be on the tables for Nationwidecandy.com, the centerpieces will be topiaries…a basebal bat will be the base and a baseball made of mums. We are havibng Mr. Met from the NY Mets come too…as favors we got M&Ms personalized in blue, orange and white with our name and date on them. They are going to be places in old fashioned candy jars. The labels were printed with our names around the outside of a baseball…The ring bearers pillow will have blue and orange ribbons hanging and my garter will have blue and orange ribbons and a NYMets pin on it…The grooms cake is being made by one of my friends to look like Shea Stadium….this theme has not been an easy one to put together…good luck everyone

Hey everyone. I wanted to update and give you an idea you may want to use. My fiance and I recently did our engagement pics (it just took us almost a year of engagement, lol). For the shoot, I got jersey’s made from our favorite team (Astros) and got them customized. On his, he had HUSBAND and the number 1 and on mine, I had WIFE and number 2. We thought of bride and groom, but we wanted to be able to use them in the future. We used them in the pics and will put them on our chairs at our reception. Just thought I would pass on the idea.

Hey!!!Just came across your website—————we are lookin for an unusal way to give a baseball favor—and include a volleyball theme too. The bride is a college volleyball player and the groom played college ball and is a proffessional baseball player—-HELP!!!!!!

Hi Stacey,
I’ve hand crafted “baseball ticket” place cards for several weddings. See below for my reply to Courtney. If you haven’t found anything yet and you’re interested, feel free to contact me at christina_walsh@verizon.net. In the meantime, good luck with your planning.
Christina

Don’t worry about what’s tasteful and what’s not. Just have fun with it! I still receive compliments about my baseball wedding. Ours was very casual, but I think that made it more fun and enjoyable for everyone. Including me! Check out our pictures. Maybe you’ll get some more ideas.
picasaweb.google.com/BetsyDeck/WorldSeriesWedding02
The best part was the house party holding up baseball bats “military style” for our exit.

Courtney,
You can make these yourself way cheap. I made them for my reception. Each table was themed after a different ballpark so I had seats 1-8 for each table. They are going to be handed out to the guests as they arrive so they know which ballpark they are seated in. You can add whatever you want. I made mine in microsoft office publisher. If you want I cna upload a picture. I kept mine plain because I was makeing seats for 260 guests but you can add pictires of a stadium or the two of you. The only limit is how much time you want to put into it. I printed mine on glossy card stock and they are perfect!

Nicole,
did you get any info on your sons’ Yankee Bar Mitzvah? Also looking for good ideas….

Amanda asked:

I was just wondering if anyone had seen a wedding band for the groom that looks like it has baseball stitching on it.

Just wondering if anyone has? I would love this for my groom!!!!!

I’m sorry I didn’t look at this site sooner. The helmets were ordered from www.gumballhelmets.com/. These were helmets with logos of baseball teams on them.

I’ve also seen some places where you can order custom helmets with your names on them or any design you choose.
www.qualitylogoproducts.com/tradeshow-promotions/baseball-helmet-ice-cream-bowl.htm. These can also be ordered through promotional advertising reps.

You might just try googling ice cream helmets and see what you come up with. I saw some for sale on ebay as well.

Good luck and have fun!
My baseball wedding was a blast!
Betsy

Hey…..I have a question and need help…….I am doing a baseball theme for my son’s communion and have a number of ideas, but one thing I am looking to do is personalized cracker jacks boxes with my son’s name on it personalized…..does anyone out there know where I can find this done or even have a way for me to do it myself. Thanks.

PLEASE someone tell me where i can find a mens wedding band with a baseball stiching pattern around it! i have looked high and low and can’t seem to find ANYTHING!
yeah i’m desperate…seriously.
thanks.

My Finance and I decided to do a baseball wedding, we are even getting married on his high school baseball field. Any ideas, on how to decorate the reception and still make it look elegant.

Thanks
Feel free and email me at tigger_tilly@yahoo.com
with any ideas.

Does anyone know where to get little bags of peanuts that are personalized with the bride and groom’s name and wedding date? We want to use them for favors.

I am trying to find bulk small plastic baseball helmets, like the kind you get a kiddie sundae in at the ball park for a favor idea I have. Does anyone know where I can find place/website to purchase 200+ mini helmets. I’d be grateful.

My baseball wedding is this Saturday and we came up with a great decorating idea. Since we both play a lot of softball and so do our friends, we borrowed as many trophies as we could and printed out stickers that say “World Series Wedding” and our pictures to cover up the plates. They will be placed along the side tables in the reception.

We also decided to serve ice cream sundaes out of the small baseball helmet bowls. We were able to order some online that hold 4 oz. of ice cream and have a variety of teams and colors on them. They’re really cute if I don’t say so myself!

For my cake server I bought a cheap set & popped off the handle then replaced it with the small end of a mini bat. it was not too difficult, but took alot of gorilla glue to hold the bat handle in place. It looked great! I also used the same idea for my bouquet, the handle of that was also a bat! on the subject of cake…they make tons of cool baseball toppers, however very expensive i think! so, we signed our names on a new baseball & used it as a topper, I was afraid it would look cheap, but I got a ton of compliments on how original it was & nice personal touch. we have 5 children between us, so they each signed a ball too, which we put on the other layers. I think the baker used gum paste to hold the balls in place

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS WEBSITE! I CAN’T FIND A BASEBALL WEDDING CAKE SERVER ANYWHERE. ANY HELP WOULD BE VERY MUCH APPRECIATED!
THANK YOU

If anyone lives in the chicago area I found a good cake site:
www.thecakegirls.com

I will hopefully have the Wrigley Field scoreboard as part of my wedding cake. The website has a variety of cakes that might give you some ideas.

I’m writing a newspaper article on sports- and baseball-themed weddings and I’m looking for brides to talk to. If anyone would be willing to chat with me about their wedding I’d appreciate it, from Boston or elsewhere. I can be reached at abbyjordan13@yahoo.com Thanks!

anyone know where to find baseball style programs for ceremony?

Hey Ladies,

I found my wedding cake design! (How many of you have been struggling to incorporate the baseball theme elegantly into the wedding cake? I know I was…I didn’t want my wedding cake to look like a birthday cake.)
Check out this website - sandysweddingcakes.com - it’s on the 3rd gallery page. I am using this basic design but adding grey pinstripes (to mimic a baseball uniform) and won’t have the round baseball on top, or the green grass. We also will have the top tier separate since we want to save it for our 1-year anniversary.

Are any of you having games at your reception? If so, can you share some ideas?

I wanted to respond to Jessica in Boston. I saw a cake server set that had baseball charms on both the knife and server on ebay. It was very subtle, but it looked awesome. I have not been able to find it since, but I think it would not be hard to do it yourself. Just buy a few inexpensive baseball charms and attach them to the servers with ribbon. I hope this help.

We are getting married at Turner Field next year. The ceremony will be on the field, and pretty traditional. My flower girls will not carry baskets, but instead wands with flower baseballs at the top, ribbons flowing down with bells. The reception is all baseball. From the kids throwing out Justin & Jenny 08 t-shirts into the crowd, to team attire, to a baseball themed cake, each table designed after a different stadium, guests receiving a ticket to their table, a photo “autograph” guest book, flower baseballs on pitchers mound centerpieces, trading card favors…it is going to be a blast. All of the food is concession food, served in baskets. Churros, popcorn…beer in cups. Just like at the game!!

Hello Ladies!

This is such a fun theme to work with - there’s not a lot of stuff on the market for baseball weddings but with a little creativity you can put it together nicely without making your wedding reception look like a birthday party. I had a tough time starting out but as I started putting things together I found that I could add just the right touch of a whimsical baseball motif to just about everything and still keep the feel of things elegant.
I can’t say enough how invaluable eBay has been in my quest for baseball themed stuff, I have found wonderful sellers willing to make custom pieces and it’s been a blast. If eBay is your cup-of-tea, check out the following (Go to “advanced search” then “find stores”. Type the store name in and click “store name only”):
Lasting Impressions Engraving - they made my favors: engraved rosewood baseball bat shaped pens. Since I ordered 100 of them I got a huge discount per piece. They come in a white gift box, simply tie on a ribbon in your wedding colors & there you go! The box and the pen can both be engraved for free. They are also available in maple.
efavormart - great deal on organza favor bags in your wedding colors. I ordered 100 of these and will fill them with foil-wrapped chocolate baseballs. (like those foil-wrapped chocolate eggs you can get around Easter, only these look like little baseballs!)
VVN GIFT TRENDY - I got a really cute garter set from them made with baseball fabric & Swavorski crystals.
BIGMIAMI - I got 4 Pandora charms from them, 2 baseballs & 2 bats. The Pandora charms are perfect because they have a loop big enough to fit a ribbon through. These are to decorate my toasting glasses & cake server set. I will just add them to an arrangement of ribbon bows, small silk flowers, and tulle then attatch them to the glasses and knife & server.
Favors for You - She custom-made my RSVP cards with a baseball bat wrapped in ribbons with our names & wedding date in the ribbon. It looks awesome, and she only charged me $10 for 50! Her website is www.favorsforyou.net, this will direct you to her eBay store. I’m so pleased with how they turned out that I’m going to have her make my Thank-you cards with the same graphic, and I wish I had gone to her for the invitations as well! If you check her out ask her if she can send you a pic of what she designed for me…tell her I refered you!
Finally, I had my cake topper custom made from a lady with the user ID cin701 (she doesn’t have an eBay store). She made a hilarious cake topper of the bride dragging the groom away from the big-screen TV where the AZ D-backs logo is on the screen. You really have to see it to appreciate it, there is a tremendous amount of detail. My fiance loved it! She can custom make one for you with any team you want.
As far as my invitations, I went to www.shutterfly.com and designed them myself. We went to Chase Field (home of the Diamondbacks) and had a picture of us taken wearing our D-backs jerseys. We took the photo from the top level so you get a really nice shot of the stadium & diamond in the background. I used this photo for the invite, and underneath the photo is the caption “We’re stepping up to the plate!” These turned out really great! I then went to www.paperworks.com and got 50 red foil-lined envelopes for less than $8!
I will post more ideas and such as I progress in my planning. I tried to post pictures in the gallery but my stupid digital camera is too fancy and the files were too big.
Good luck to you all!

I used comtix.com for my ticket invitations. They were very reasonable, helpful and quick. Good luck!

We are having a baseball themed wedding, I am early in the process but have decided that the ring bear will be in uniform and carry the rings down in a baseball glove.

Also, our engagement announcements headline, “Here’s the pitch, we’re getting hitched.”

Love the site, this is a hard theme to work with while trying to be “classy” too.

Amanda

I have been looking at this site for months, but never really went to the links until now. The baseball cards are the best! We are definately using those for our save the dates. Thanks so much for all the great advice everyone!!! I will let everyone know if there is a great idea we come up with and would like to share.

Our wedding is November 10, 2007. We sent out our save the date cards from customsportscards.com and everyone loved them! We are not using the baseball theme for EVERYTHING, but the reception is where it will be showcased the most. Our centerpieces are going to be hats with the tops cut so flowers can be placed underneath the hats. Our cake will have gerber daisies in red with baseballs cascading down the side. It was getting too difficult to find a wedding cake that didn’t look like a child’s bday cake, so we compromised. Our favors will be the foil-wrapped baseball chocolates wrapped in tuling with a red ribbon, along with bags of cracker jacks. All the ideas on this page are excellent and very helpful! Congrats, baseball-lovin brides!!!

I am getting married in the same section that I met my Fiance’ in at Petco Park in San Diego, Ca. I have everything figured out but my bouquet. I want it made out of a baseball with Stargazer lillies and miniature baseballs mixed in with the folage. I am also trying to figure out how to make a vail out of one of my baseball hats. Any suggestions?

2nd response to Debby Katz’e-mail - there was a typo on my e-mail address - it is Jan565@AOL.com

I am having my sons Bar Mitzvah June 2…with a subtle classy baseball theme. We got a HUGE hat from Greatbigstuff.com for everyone to sign.. I am using minibaseballs as place card settings, but still stomped for table numbers. Any great ideas?

Cindy - here is a link where I purchsed envelopes to put my invitations that I had made in them - they ship them out super fast and are great to work with …

www.paperandmore.com/

Hi, We’re getting married in July at the ballpark in Arlington. Sticking with the theme I got customized baseball cards as invitations. It has our picture in front and the back has all the wedding details. They are standard baseball card size, and now I’m having trouble finding envelopes for them. Any ideas? btw, I got the cards at www.customsportscards.com

When you have a wedding that is a little out-of-the-box, you have to think a little out of the box. Caterers who normally do weddings are less likely to be willing to do hotdogs simply because they can’t make as much as they would on a regular dinner. You really have two options:

- hire a wedding caterer who will do your menu if you still pay the full dinner price
- find a caterer that specializes in less formal events. My husband’s best friend had a outdoor wedding with hamburgers and salads and a baseball tournament reception. They used a company that usually did company picnics, family gatherings, etc.

If you can’t find anyone, another option is to look into hiring students from a local college chef class to “cater” the event for you. You may need to borrow bbq’s from family members for them to use though. That is another reason why traditional caterers are reluctant: they may not have the right equipment.

I am using steel buckets with styrofoam in the bottom and covering with some tissue, etc. Then the bucket is being filled with peanuts, cracker jack and sunflower seeds. The pennant is going to be starched and facing the entrance to the room. The cake is a presentation cake with the two sheet cakes that look like jerseys. As far as the mascot–contact the PR office for the team. You can get anything for a price…mine is $100 for an hour. We are being announced after the national anthemn

Question for the idea of using pennants for the tables (instead of number)…I want to double face the pennants and stand them up right. Any ideas of an anchor for the pennant sticks which will look good? The idea of minipennants with the names for seating is great..I was trying to find budget baseball picture frames but the choice is limited . Great ideas on this page.

That is such a cool idea having one of the sausages there. How do you go about setting that up? My boyfriend would flip if I could get the Phanatic there.

We are getting married on October 20, 2007. Brewer and Cubs fan. The solor scheme is Brewer with Navy Blue and Gold and my flowers will be Cubs color theme. We are having centerpieces of big steel buckets with peanuts, cracker jack, sunflower seeds and baseball shped candies. The cake is going to be a baseball sitting on the pitchers mound. Place cards will look like tickets to a game and the tables will be numbered with the AL/NL pennants for teams.

Hi, my fiancee and I are getting married on Sept 22, 2007 and we are both huge cubs fans… Actually, myself a touch more than him! We are having our wedding at a pretty nice place, but I am bound and determined to have a cubs themed reception. Does anyone have any cake ideas, or photos? It is hard to incorporate their colors into the wedding colors, because I will be using browns and burnt oranges, but for the reception, I just want it to be fun and color scheme doesn’t matter.

My fiance proposed to me by handing me the prize(my ring!) out of the cracker jack box we were eating..it was very sweet, and even cuter when I later found out that that was the very same way his father proposed to his mom.
I am trying to figure a way to incorporate the cracker jacks- maybe as a favor?- into our wedding. Any suggestions, or leads would be awesome. I remember seeing somewhere (new) vintage style boxes as favors…cant seem to find them now when i need them…

I love this site!!! Thanks for all the tips. I am getting married March 10th, on a softball field. We too, met playing co-ed softball. I would love to know how everything went with you and if you had any unforseen surprises!!.

Thanks!

I am also having a baseball themed wedding and we’re using the idea of naming the tables after different MLB teams. For Save the Date cards we made baseball cards that said: Gameday (Wedding Date), Field (The church), First Pitch (Time of the wedding), Post Game (Where the reception was at), Managers (our parents). They were a big hit and everyone loved them. I found them at www.CustomSportsCards.com and they were very resonably priced. My fiance does not like baseball as much as I do so not everything is baseball but a few little touches are fun! If you have any other ideas let me know.

We are having a baseball wedding and we are using ballparks as table names (Fenway Park, Wrigley Field, etc). For placecards we are using tickets. Each ticket has the person’s name and what “ballpark” they will be sitting at for the day. i used an old ticket from a Red Sox game to model it after.

ok… hmmm are you on a tight budget? if not.. get baseballs & put each guests name on it… It can be a favor as well…

ok here is a thought to the place cards… Make little penants… I think you might be able to by them though… Anyway, if not… Make little penants out of paper and attatch to toothpicks… Then use clay or something and make little bases or whatever and attatch the toothpick into the base… Write the guests names on the penants…

we are using astro turf to walk down the aisle. officiant will stand at pitchers mound, and we’ll stand at home plate. our wedding cake will be powdered covered mini-donuts with red piping (to mirror baseballs) with mini chocolate cover baseballs as giveaways. our table decor will be grass (cat grass, the tall skinny kind) with potted daisies interspersed on table for colour. hope this helps!

I was just wondering if anyone has some ideas for me. My fiance and I just decided that we are going to have our wedding on a softball diamond. I have so much planning to do I dont know where to start.
Thanks!

Hey Erin….Congrats on the wedding Saturday, hope everything is awesome. try the website….
www.specialoccasionpoetry.com/wedding_vow.htm

Good Luck!!!

Hello Sandi, Liz, & Kristy, my name is Kristina, my other half and i will be married on a softball field Aug 13th of this year. a couple of websites i found for favors — try oriental trading company, i fond a lot of bulk items there. Also — partysecrets.com, they had tablecloths, baseball streamers, centerpieces, etc…i love the idea of baseballs in the vase! =) thats awesome. some other things that were doing in our wedding, we are having our bridal party walk down to the instrumental version of take me out to the ball game. our reverend has a jersey being made for him, as well as our ring bearers and flower girls. i had a lot of family and friends go all out with this, and i get shot different ideas every day. new websites are always being emailed to me so i will post them when i gather a few. Good luck with everything ladies…i hope all goes perfectly as planned.
Congratulations!!!

Thanks for the wonderful ideas..We are getting married on a baseball field so I want great favors at the reception!! It helps a lot thanks

Thank you to the great ideas!! We are having a baseball theme wedding…thanks again!