Baseball Theme Weddings

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?

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!!

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 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!!

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!!

Does anyone have any ideas for yankee favors? We got engaged at the last game at yankee stadium. Thanks!

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!

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.

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.

still looking for the way to get a baseball ticket as an invitation. can anyone help?

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?

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

here’s some links to my wedding pics - we had an entire baseball themed wedding from standing at home plate to a baseball cake topper. we even had a special dedication message played at the wedding from Dodger legend Tommy Lasorda! :o) Hope the pics give you some ideas!

photographer 1

photographer 2

brides, here is a baseball theme wedding board i found at snippetandink.com

* Board #181: Take Me Out to the Ballgame…

ive been searching everywhere for the ticket invites could someone please send it to me shugart4@hotmail.com

i just found this thread- which is AMAZING! i love the variety of centerpiece ideas - i actually just settled on my centerpieces which are going to be goldfish in regular sized fish bowls with dark blue stones and a small baseball inside the bowl that the fish is swimming around, with tea lights around it on the table. it fits perfectly with my mets blue & orange color scheme and wasnt too much baseball overload for our formal wedding!

I also had a semi-red sox wedding in October of 2004.. Although it wasn’t quite as elaborate as some of yours, the one thing that people (still to this day-4 years later) remember was my place cards (attached). They were really inexpensive ($1.50 each I think) and were created by a (very patient) stay at home mom. I highly recommend them.
For those of you interested in seeing other ideas, my wedding can be viewed at the Knot: Lisa & Kevin in Millis, MA

Here’s a link to my wedding planning site, there’s a ton of baseball themed stuff on there

http://sites.google.com/site/charityandjohn/

Here is the picture of the escort card described in my post, below.

We are getting married in one week. We went with a retro ticket design for the escort cards, as we thought that the retro look would be a little bit classier. Our printer (Jen Farrell of Star Shaped Press here in Chicago) took a 1931 Cardinals - Athletics World Series - we’re Cardinals fans - ticket stub as inspiration, and created our escort card. (Will try to upload it here.) The end is perforated like a real ticket, and we’ll write in the name and table number on the end of the ticket. (”Mother of Bride, Ozzie Smith - Table 1.) Yes, we’ve named our tables after our favorite Cardinals, past and present. I think that they turned out very well.

Hello all congrats to everyone… I am getting Married july 25th 2009 My husband to be and I met at a softball tournament and he proposed at a softball tournament we plan on doing the softball themed wedding as well I am looking for a place in Canada where I can buy wedding Bands with the softball stitching any ideas where please thanks !!! some great ideas on here!!

If I knew how to upload a file like that I would so I could put my Mets ticket on there.

And here is Jess’ Cardinals ticket template, although this is really sleek and looks like you could easily adapt it to other teams.

Thanks Jess!!

Download Jess’ Cardinals Ticket Template

Beth - your tickets are awesome! mine are just a tad bit simpler. Awesome job!

Hi everyone, here is Beth’s Cubs ticket template in MS Word — enjoy, with big thanks to Beth!

Download Beth’s Cubs ticket template

Kathy -

I have 43 various helmets left over from my wedding. I’ll make ya a deal! Let’s talk. betsy@boyett.com

Jess, thanks for the input!

Kathy,

I think I got mine from an ebay store. You’ll have more luck finding them there. Count on them being about $1 each. gumballhelmets.com also has them.

I’m looking for 50 mini baseball hat sundae cups. Help!!!

Hi ladies:

if anyone here has an attachment or MS word file you’d like to share without trying to email it to everyone who might be interested (which might be a LOT of people, especially in the weeks and months ahead!), please send it to me at blake@favorideas.com and I will put it in a post here under your name … thanks so much!

I made Cubs ticket invites for a couples shower - they turned out pretty good - a few people thought it was an actual ticket - I’m having a hard time attaching the photo, but will email the attachment.

I had very suttle centerpieces, I used votive candles on 3 different height mirrored pilars with a mirror under them, on the mirror I spread daisey heads & glass “baseball” pebbles. I have seen the stones that look like baseballs in craft stores-very costly! so, I bought bags of clear stones at the dollar store & drew “stitching” with a red sharpie, they turned out great! I also made signs for each table naming them MLB teams instead of numbers.
at the head table we lined mini bats across the front with our names & one for each member of the bridal party with small vases of daisies inbetween each. the room still looked elegant when you walked in yet had our personal baseball touches

I have the ticket template… I’ll just need your email addy. I would upload it to here, but I can’t convert it to an image.

Here’s what I”m using for a centerpiece, only we’re using orange mini gerbra daisies for the flowers

Also, who ever had the ticket template, I’d LOOOOOVE it if you could send it to me! I’ve been looking all over for one

Liz - on centerpeices, as well as the whole decor of the wedding, it depends on how much emphisis on baseball you want. I had a semi-formal wedding that was very relaxed and did have baseball incorporated. I had a huge table of baseball things…the crackerjack, popcorn, peanuts, pennants, baseballs, baby ruths, those little helmets, and more stuff. I wanted to do centerpeices of hurricane vases (walmart for like $4) with red roses and baseballs in the bottom…very subtle but still intertwinded. However, I had over 300 people and that got expensive fast. I also wanted to put a baseball in a celophane bag with red shredded paper (for the Cardinals) and tie it with a baseball ribbon… but also very expensive. So what I did was just flower arrangements (red and white roses) with some little baseballs spread on the table… (they sell those little chocolate baseballs on bulk candy stores - make sure you order ice packets as well or they might melt) This was just the right touch. But again, it all depends on how much baseball you want. I still had a very elegant wedding while still having fun with the baseball!

(some weddings are tooooo much baseball and begin to look…well….trashy and not like weddings at all. You can still have YOUR wedding as well as a litte baseball. Don’t want to be too overwhelming).

Any centerpiece ideas?

I can email you the ticket that I made… I made it in word. You can just use my template and change the colors, wording, etc. Just let me know your email addy if you would like.

Megan, We took the idea from this site of putting a baseball card in our save-the-dates: http://www.customsportscards.com Might work for you too, if you don’t want to have to do so much yoursefl. You’d need to get the pictures taken, and tell them how to design it, but you wouldn’t have to create the design yourself. You put pictures of yourselves on the cards, and you could do some fun things with Yankees vs. BoSox. (Picture of you both in jerseys from your respective teams, etc.) I’m sure that you could incorporate the logos.

Best of luck!

Does anyone have any cute ideas for do-it yourself invitations? Also, how do you get the template for sports tickets! Mine is a Cubs themed wedding reception!

Jess, Thank you so much! This is very helpful. I didn’t even know where to begin.

Megan…. You’ll probably save yourself alot of time and money and headaches if you just design the save the dates yourself. You can get great cardstock from paperandmore.com and then have them printed by kinkos or something like that. It’s just a little bit more work, but is definately worth it. You can even do a photo of the two of you in your team’s gear then upload to printsmadeeasy.com or kodakgallery.com or another place and do a flat card (similar to a post card)… your photo on the front and all of the info on the back. With the cost of stamps and professional designing you’ll end up spending wwwwaaaayyyy too much on something that’s just fun. Spend your money on a cool baseball table, a grooms cake, some fun games for the kids, or by leaving a ticket on each table…. on that note… you could design a Yankee vs Red Sox “ticket” as a save the date. I made my own on Word. I think I took a picture and posted them below… I also think that Walmart and Walgreens have sports cards that you can add your info to the back or even add a label to the back. The possibilities are endless!

My fiance is a Yankee fan and I am a Red Sox fan- I am looking for Save the dates where I can put a Red Sox and Yankee logo on them. Does anyone know of any good websites? Thanks!

Megan

FOR A TOPPER WE JUST DID A NEW BASEBALL & “AUTOGRAPHED” IT WITH A SILVER METALLIC MARKER, THEN CIRCLED IT IN DAISIES, VERY CHEAP LOOKED GREAT

Hey Ashley - We are doing peanuts and cracker jacks and are placing them in clear cellophane bags from here:

http://www.papermart.com/templates/75-0-40.htm

We found a woman on Etsy.com to make our favor tags — hopefully the photo will show up — with ribbons to tie the bags closed. (We had stickers made of the same thing to decorate plain white boxes for our guests to take home leftover cake.)

Good luck and have fun planning!

I know that some people are using the baseball cards and the baseball admission tickets! I know some people have made them to! How would you find the template or program to make these items! If anyone has any ideas, I would greatly appreciate it! Also, my favors will also be peanuts and cracker jacks and maybe even popcorn. Does anyone have any ideas what to put these in? Thank you!!

Hi Liz. I was just married on May 25th, and I had a baseball themed wedding with baseballs as favors. I actually got the name from this site it is called minisportsballs.com. We had our names printed on the front with the date, and on the back we scanned a copy of our signatures. It was about $2 a ball would be a little less if you didnt get the second side, but we thought it would be easier and neatier than signing over 250 balls. The company was very professional and speedy in the delivery, they do offer rush shipping and usually have specials (1 free screen charge) or discounts. Defintely something to look into. Good luck and Happy planning.

Does anyone know a good site that I can get baseballs engraved/personalized at? I would prefer something at a reasonable price, but if that isn’t possible, I would take any suggestions. Thanks in advance!

its really easy and cheap!

You get the little terra cotta planters from somewhere like Lowe’s or Home Depot with some potting soil and grass seed and mix in a few flower seeds of your liking. It took us about 3 weeks of growing to get them right.

Hi everyone! My fieance is in LOVE with baseball… we call him a walking Sports Center because of all of his knowledge of baseball and sports in general. With that being said we want to add some of his baseball flair into the wedding. We arn’t going to do a sports theme becasue even though I love sports too I still wanted the wedding to be as I like to call it “Ropmantic-Elegance with lots of FUN!” My colors are a deepish purple with chocolate and champign accents. I have some ideas as to what I am going to do to tie in the baseball theme but I think that it would be really cool if I were able to add in the center pieces also. (The flowers are going to be the bridesmaid’s boquets… saved me $1000!!) Right now they are going to be carrying long stem callalillis. The tables are chocolate with cream mapkins and china table settings, we will also have the purple tied in with the hidranga (spelling?) pettles (purple) on the tables and I also wold like to have candles…. any ideas that you have please let me know I can always be adaptable! The wedding is Nov. 15 2008!!!!

THANKS SO MUCH!!!
CONGRATS TO ALL THE BRIDES!!!!

Charity,

Can you tell me more about that centerpiece with the grass and the baseball with flowers? I LOVE IT! I must figure out a way to do those.

Try this one…I think the guys name was Matt Golden 718.803.4004

Luci, here’s a link to Yankee’s gaters online, I used this company for my Mets ones and they’re FANTASTIC!

http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/kristis_charmed_life…Yankees

Here’s my storyboard I’m using I’m still working on it but so far so good.

All the dresses at the bottom would be sapphire blue with black netting, and the girls would be holding orange flowers

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Oh well thanks anyway I’ll keep looking

thanks for the ideas…i had forgotten about etsy!

HI Charity…Try 718-559-3903

Have you tried Esty.com ? They’ve got a ton of awesome garters on there, I found my Mets one on Ebay though…when I get home I’ll try to contact the seller and see if they have any Yankee ones for you if you want

Jeannie, do you happen to have the number to the Mets PR? I can’t find it anywhere.

Hi there

I made my own garter…I got a garter at Davids for $8.00 it was royal blue like the Met’s colors…I then got a NYMets pin and orange and blue ribbon…I put the pin where the bow should have been and then hot glued the blue and orange ribbon around it…I will see if I can kind a pic and I’ll post it

Well my wedding date is fast approaching and I am looking for a Yankees garter belt. I have tried ebay, but can’t find anything that really works…did anyone use a baseball garter belt?

Thanks Jennifer and Allison I will check them both out. The wedding is August 2009…so I still have some time.

Paula (and everyone),

Check Oriental Trading for hats. They also have other baseball stuff. They don’t sell team licensed stuff just baseball themed stuff.

Hi Paula! funny you should mention the White Sox (one of the groomsmen in my wedding is actually on the 40 man roster for the White Sox!) anyways, my soon to be sister in law has her own promotional products company & I know you can order the baseball key chains from her (and the baseball hats too). Miranda’s Promotional Products - Noel Miranda - 661-298-9119 Hope this helps!

I am the grooms mother and the my son and his fiance would like t a Chicago White Sox theme for their wedding. Can nayone help me out? I am looking for small baseball key chains that can be engraved with their name and date on them. Also looking for cheap baseball hats for the servers to wear at the reception. I enjoyed reading your ideas. I really like the peanuts and CrackerJack idea.

Hi Everyone!

I’ve enjoyed reading everyone’s ideas on here! My fiance & I are also having a baseball themed wedding so every idea is helpful. Here’s something I came up with & would like to share with you other brides: On our invitations I’m designing, I’m going to have this: “In your arms…I’m safe at home.” Also, there’s going to be a baseball diamond with our names in it like this pic (if it doesn’t appear with my post, you can see it on our website: http://www.weddingwire.com/allisonandjoshua). Also, we’re going to be standing at a home plate in the garden where we have our ceremony & then we’re going to use that to have our wedding party sign. Let’s see, what else… I’m going to make a silk baseball pillow for our ringbearer to carry our rings on in a baseball glove….And I’m going to design baseball cards using our engagement pics to give out with the favors (cracker jack boxes, peanuts, sunflower seeds & big league chew gum)…My future mother in law is going to make our cake topper by imprinting our names & wedding date 11/7/08 on a baseball and our cake designer said she can make it look like the ball got thrown onto the top of the cake (like those baseball stickers that “crack” the car windows.) So, with the cake topper & the home plate & a pic from the wedding we can have it all framed & add it to our sports memorabilia collection! We have lots more ideas & I will try to post them soon to share with everyone! And please, post more of your ideas too!

Hey Michelle, I’m also in Cincinnati, if you ever need help with your baseball wedding…mines not a Reds but I could still give you ideas and sites I’ve found that helped

We’ve been planning our baseball wedding for about 6 months now. I’ve been trying to be creative with our ideas. Just as we finish our planning (wedding is August 2nd), I find this website. We’re getting married on home plate at Great American Ball Park (Cincinnati Reds.)!!

Thank you!! I will definitely try that!!

We had Mr. Met…which is the NYMets mascot. We would have loved to have had a player. We contacted the Mets through their public relations office. They got us in contact with the right people.

I forgot to ask Jeannie! How did you get the Mets guy to come to your reception! My fiancee and my soon to be father in law are in LOVE with Ryne Sandberg to show up! How would you go about telling them about it or contacting people who could help!

I am also doing a Chicago Cubs Themed Reception and I have enjoyed all of your ideas! I would like to keep my reception somewhat formal with the idea of the fun theme of baseball! If you guys have any more great ideas let me know! Thank you!!

Hey ladies,
I was so excited to find this site!!! I am not only having a baseball themed reception, but am having it at the ballpark, during a game. Our ceremony will be at our church and then we will ship everyone to the ballpark for a game. We don’t dance so this seemed like a great alternative. The group suites at Safeco Field in Seattle are a good deal for something like this and all the food and entertainment and space and parking (seemingly everything!) is included and everyone has loved the idea. Our biggest hurdle is what favors to give and are leaning towards doing custom lanyards since everyone is required to keep there ticket on them to get access to the suite level. Any ideas of cheap lanyard sites? Thanks again for all your ideas and I look forward to reading more!

Hey, Here are some ideas my finance and I are doing for our baseball wedding. We are taking all of his old baseball pennets and hanging them from the ceiling in the bar area. We also got some really big vases and are filling them up with baseballs and will be sitting them on top of each other in different angles.

As for our cake..we both don’t eat it..so we are making an ice sculptor , with engaged baseball bats frozen in the sculpor that we got from http://www.littlesluggers.com, we will be adding baseballs as well to the ice sculptor and the fun thing is..it will be shaped like a cake.

Enjoy

Jeannie we’re having a Mets wedding too! I wish we lived closer that way we could have Mr. Met at ours, but I don’t think they’ll fly him to Cincinnati LOL

Anyway I don’t know if anyone has used this cake or not but I totally love it and we’re doing an adaptation of it for ours!

We had a caketopper custom made from youtopthecake.com…here is a picture…they asked for pictures and details of what we were wearing and I had them put a baseball bat in his hands.

Thanks! We had a blast…that is the one thing that you need to remember…have fun!! The time goes so fast:D

Chels,

I’m just putting them (tin buckets) on the concession stand area, with mini pennants on sticks inserted into them.

Here’s a gorgeous wedding where the couple put personalized baseballs at every guests’ plate. Looks like it was a big hit!

See the whole thing at photographer Mike Colón / Mike & Kelly

Jeannie your photos are FABULOUS!

Hey Jess,
Are you incoporating the tin buckets in your centerpiece or are you just putting them on the table? If you are incoporating them in you centerpiece how are you doing it? Thanks

Jess,

Those balls will float so that probably won’t work. Sorry. Thanks for your help!

We were dressed formally for the ceremony then change into our NY Met Jerseys with Rao for him and Mrs Rao for me..the wedding cake had roses in the Mets colors

We had Mr Met come toward the end of the reception…we didn’t tell anyone so it was a surprise

Here was the grooms cake … a colleague’s sister made it!

Our Florist made the centerpieces look like a baseball topiary help up my mini baseball bats…see pic

Hey Jess, if you want vases filled with baseballs but want fresh flowers on top, you can use water tubes or water pics for the blooms, and then you can keep the vases & contents dry.

See something like this:
http://www.floral-supply…waterpick/

They are really inexpensive and lots of sites sell them in smaller quantities; I just listed this one because it does a good job of showing all the options.

Old florist trick! Just a thought! :D>-

Chelsea,

thanks! do you know if the balls will be able to stay submerged in water? I’m going to put them in the bottom of a vase and have flowers in it as well. I was thinking of using ping-pong balls and drawing on them - but might be toooooo trashy for me….we’ll see. I think for a topper you can just make it easy on yourself and get a logo like on the jerseys and put it on top of the cake.

As for the guest book, yes I’m just using a photo book with white pages where people can sign around the edges.

I’m using those tin buckets like you see at some bars for the peanuts - I got them at Target for $1 in that $1 area in the front. I thought those would be a little classier than anything else I found. They have a brand of sun flower seeds called Spitz and they have a cute little cup in the package… I didn’t like them, but everyone else may…

Hope that helps!

So, I got those baseballs and they are mini like erasers. Not the ones I saw at Walgreens. But they’ll work.

I am planning a baseball themed wedding as well. It’s been super exciting. But I found some foam baseballs (no logo) on Amazon.com. Type in foam baseballs and it will be the second on that pops up. They are smaller than a baseball but eraser sized. We are using the foam baseballs as our centerpiece.

Jess, I liked your idea for the guest book. But I looked on the website and I couldn’t find one. Are doing a photo book and then having the guest write in that?

I’m really excited about this theme. For our wedding favors I am getting like a lunch bag in our colors which are blue and white and then putting a bag of peanuts and a bag of sunflower seeds. That way the guest can put the shells in the bag. Our wedding cake topper has been the biggest pain. I want something personalized but I don’t want to spend over 100 dollars. Any ideas? The one’s above (from ebay) i don’t like. We are doing the concession stand idea as well. We are going to have different types of candy and hopefully a popcorn machine.

This website is awesome for ideas. Everyone has helped me out a ton. Thanks.

I haven’t found any mini-baseballs that are worth buying, I was looking as well, but only for STL logos! If anyone finds any mini baseballs please let us know!

Is there anywhere to order mini or regular sized baseballs with the Cubs logo for wedding favors that don’t cost a lot?

HI

Just back from my honeymoon! We had a baseball wedding and everyone is talking about how much fun it was…I am going to try and post from photos when I get home today…

Hannah,

I think that you can have ribbon custom made to say STL or whatever you want and have it red, yellow, and white or whatever colors you want (www.ribbonprinters.com/)

this isn’t the best picture, but i couldn’t figure out how to convert my word created ticket into jpeg or gif - sorry. It’s basically is just a picture of Busch Stadium. It says Justin and Jess, a photo of the cardinal, infield field box - game 1 - 6:30pm ,
seat (7), section(26), and row(08) align up to be the wedding date (7-26-08). I have a barcode on the side just to make it look real. I also put at the bottom “On this day of joy, thank you for joining us in the celebration of our love and the beginning of our new life together.”

Hey Girls. I’m having a more formal wedding but am incorporating baseball for my husband to be - which will be a total surprise to him - since I’m not really a baseball fan. Ya’ll have alot of good ideas! I’ve taken alot of your ideas and ran with them. I’m having red and white for the colors in the wedding (which just happen to be the STL Cards colors!) Our ring bearer is carrying a plastic baseball with our rings in it in his little glove. For the reception I’m placing these little tickets on each setting as sort of a thank you note . Our linens for the tables are white with red napkins. We’re having a Groom’s cake, which will be a baseball… duh. On his cake table I’m having a “concession stand” with big league chew, crackerjacks, popcorn, cotton candy, licorice ropes, peanuts, those little ice cream sundae helmets filled with candy, and little baseball cookies - you get the idea. I have found that nationwide candy is about the cheapest, but I’m thinking that Sam’s Club will have about the same prices without shipping charges (if ya’ll have those around check them out). I’m going to decorate this (cake table) area with pennants and little pictures of the hubby when he played T-ball and little league. For my cake table I’m doing pictures of our parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc. at their weddings for a little more personal touch. For a guest book I’m making a book through Walgreens or Walmart that’s leather bound ($20) with the future hubby and I’s pics at the Cards games and people can sign on these pages - and it’ll make a beautiful keepsake. For some of the centerpieces, I’m using hurricane vases filled with little baseballs with red and white roses in it on top of a mirror with rose petals on the table. Nothing to do with baseball, just a little idea. I went to 7 weddings this past summer and everyone played 20 min. picture videos - cute…. but very BORING. I’m going to play a thank you video for my parents during my father daughter dance and playing a video of Justin and I during dinner. If ya’ll have any other ideas for me, PLEASE let me know. I check this all the time to make sure that I’m keeping up. THANKS!

Jen, Someone else on this site referred me to Nationwide Candy. They have 1 oz boxes of cracker jacks, which are small enough for my purposes.

http://nationwidecandy.com/snacks/items/SP990893.htm

Hannah,

Where did you find mini boxes of cracker jacks?

Thanks
Jen

My (sort-of) baseball-themed wedding is in 3 months, so I’m posting my ideas, along with requests for suggestions. (We met at a St. Louis Cardinals game.)
-We used an idea off of this site for our save-the-dates: our “baseball card” inserted into each save the date.
-We are planning on using a regulation home plate as our guest book, but am having trouble finding a good deal on one — any ideas?
-Our escort cards are being custom-made by our great invitation printer, and are modeled after a 1931 Cardinals-Athletics World Series ticket stub. (On the stub part will be the name of the guest and the name of the table.) Very vintage looking.
-We are naming our tables after our favorite St. Louis Cardinals, past and present. Each table card will have that player’s baseball card.)
-Our sweetheart table will be decorated with a custom-made Louisville Slugger with our names and wedding date….and the STL logo.
-Our favors will be mini-boxes of Cracker Jacks and mini-bags of peanuts, one each, tied up in a cellophane bag. I’d love to use STL Cardinals ribbon or baseball ribbon to tie them up with, but cannot find it. Does anyone have ideas?
Thanks!!

we did a baseball theme and for the programs we made “fans” and gave personalized water bottles out for the thanks you gifts. we got a ton of compliments too

We are using bowl shaped flower vases with baseballs in them and
round candles on top of the vases.

http://www.sportsunlimitedinc.com/cubshomedecor.html

If you go to the link above you will find flower vases with the Cubs logo. I did a baseball pilsner glass from galasource.com as our vase…you may be able to get that engraved if you want to Cubs logo.

Please help…I’m looking for baseball shaped flower vases, small in size, preferably ‘Cubs’. If not Cubs, then no team on them, just baseball shaped. I would like to use them as a bridal shower ‘favor’ with Cubs color flowers in them.
THANK YOU, Diane

Tammy, My daughter got married in April. The reception was at the Ballpark in Arlington where the Texas Rangers play. They had personalized bags of peanuts for favors (they were pink striped with their names and date on them. The peanuts are the ones in the shell just like they sell at games.) along with boxes of Cracker Jack, Big Chew gum and personalized baseball cards. Everyone loved it!!

The Yankee Theme wedding gave us SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO many ideas!!!! My son and his future bride loved the site—especially since he played for the Yankees last year!!!! Can you all think of any other way to incorporate something othe than a beer mug for the favors?! ————-Tammy Carrara

Hi ladies, if you haven’t seen this NY Yankees theme “real wedding” at the Knot, you’re missing out!

This is probably the most formal baseball theme wedding I’ve seen … you know, these can get pretty informal with the bride in a jersey and baseball cap … but GREAT photos for somone who wants a little less casual in their baseball wedding.

NY Yankee Themed Wedding / The Knot

No problem Kim! Thanks for the compliment. I have tons of ideas and am really excited about others ideas. If you have any ideas to pass along I’m all ears.

Congrats on your wedding. That is so awesome you were engaged at the world series game! What a great proposal!

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!!

I ordered them from mlbshop.com. I went to my favorite teams shop (Astros). You can order personalized jerseys that way. The mens are around $80ish for a replica (over $200 for an authentic). I get the youth extra large for 60ish. I like the youth ones because they are longer than the women’s. You can get any of your favorite players or you can put your new last names or the husband & wife, bride & groom, etc. It is definately worth every penny though as we will use them for our entire lives!

I told my future hubby i wanted to have them on our chairs at our 50th wedding anniversary and have everyone sign them. Then we can “retire” them.

Thanks so much for the comments!

hey allie…

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

hey alli!!

i love the idea of the jerseys!!! where did you get them from? did you order them online?? let me know your thoughts, please..:D

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

Hi,

I went to a 1st birthday party and for a favor was given a bag of unshelled peanuts with the words of “Take Me Out To The Ballgame” attached to them. I loved this idea. They tell me it was bought on the internet. Do you know what site it could be?

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.

Thanks for all the great info - we are planning a baseball themed shower for a coworker (she & her fiancee are huge baseball fans) - and we were stuck for ideas - until we found your site.

Congrats to all the brides!!

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,
I loved reading your suggestions and wanted to be sure you are aware of our company, Cooperstown Cookie, based in Cooperstown, New York, the home of baseball. We would be happy to hear from anyone needing help w/ baseball themed favors, etc.

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

I would to have baseball ticket place cards. I was wondering if anyone knew how I could make that happen. Any help is much appreciated!

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.
http://picasaweb.google.com/BetsyDeck/WorldSeriesWedding02
The best part was the house party holding up baseball bats “military style” for our exit.

I am also planning a baseball wedding for our big day on 08/08/08…these are some of the ideas that I am playing with. We used customsportscards.com to make our save the date cards…everyone really loved them! I found some baseball pilsner glasses at galasource.com that will be our vase for our centerpieces. We are using the espresso color to play off the color of the glove as our main color and the ivory to make it look more elegant. I will be naming each table after a baseball team and using mini pennants we found at Academy or almost any other sports store. I am still not sure on the favors because I want for them to look nice and tasteful, but if I figure it out, I will let you know. My fiance and I are having so much fun with planning this wedding…everyone just can’t believe we are having a baseball theme wedding, but they love the idea. We will also be touring several baseball parks for our honeymoon.

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!

Hi Courteny,
Just came across your question. I’m a work from home mom who does graphic design from home. I’ve hand crafted “red sox ticket” place cards for several weddings. Attached is a sample. I charge $1.50 per card. Layout and design is no additional charge provided any changes are minor. If you haven’t found anything yet and you’re interested, please email at christina_walsh@verizon.net
Christina

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

Heather — check out Mark Silverstein’s designs. He as a line of sports-themed rings for men. http://www.msimagines.com/ click on “men”

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!!!!!

Hey Jan, thanks…..I was thinking of doing that but not sure how it would come out……I will try it and see and in the meantime I will keep searching. I did find a site, but they no longer have a website. Thanks for the reply.

I’m sorry I didn’t look at this site sooner. The helmets were ordered from http://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.
http://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

Michelle, I think the best you can do is buy some Cracker Jacks in boxes from nationwidecandy.com and then have some labels made like you want to put on the box. You can find labels at myownlabels.com. Hope this helps.

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.

Does anyone know where I can get placecards for a wedding to look like a baseball ticket?

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.

For anyone feeling pretty Martha after pulling off a few triumphant holiday dinners, check out this cute baseball cap cake (def. grooms cake material) that apparently even regular people can make, following the directions in Elisa Strauss’ new how-to/lookbook Confetti Cakes. The cake in the photo was made by an Amazon reader, not the author (pretty amazing).

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.

Jan,
Try this website.
http://www.plantationpeanuts.com/weddingfavors.php

Jen

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.

Please Help! I posted a comment awhile back but don’t know how to check it. I am in dire need of help!!! I seen wedding cake topper with a groom catching a ball in one hand and his bride in the other but for some reason I can’t seem to find it and I really would like it as my cake topper. Please help me in find the website with this cake topper and email me at mrschaaf@interact.ccsd.net

Thanks a bazillion!!!

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. :((

Betsy-
Do you have the website you bought the helmets from?
Thanks
Jennifer

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!

Centerpiece idea: For my son’s Bar Mitzvah I am making my own centerpieces. I ordered various MLB teams galvanized 5 qt pails and I will be filling them with baseballs(rubber core) and in the center of the balls I will have 1/2 dozen helium balloons of colors to match the color scheme. I think it should look good but I won’t know until next spring.

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 haven’t had any luck in that area either, but I am going with some advice received from other postings. I am going to get a cream handled serving set and wrap the handles with some coordinating ribbon and attach a charm of some sort. Any engraving shop should be able to engrave a theme onto the plate of the server. I took that approach with my garters as well. I found some gorgeous garters, and when we were at Turner Field this spring I picked out some really nice Braves pins that I attached. They are better than the cheopo ones I have seen online.

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

HI,

Great ideas. I am having my sons bar mitzvah in april08 I am doing a yankee theme. Any idea or websites for centerpieces.

thanks

If anyone lives in the chicago area I found a good cake site:
http://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 am doing a baseball themed ceremony. I was just wondering if anyone had seen a wedding band for the groom that looks like it has baseball stitching on it. Before I was engaged I saw one in a wedding magazine, but that was like 2 years ago. It would be perfect for my fiance but now I cannot seem to find the ring anywhere. If you have any ideas of where i might find a wedding band with baseball stitching or a ring that looks similar please let me know

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!

I made my own programs. I took a very simple program stock from a party store and used microsoft publisher to design my program. The front page has our monograms on it, along with dates we “Exchanged Championship Rings”, and article headlines of our return home. Our wedding is at a baseball field across the country from us, and our reception is in our home town. Inside the program I listed the entire team…each member of our party has a position on the team. They look great.

anyone know where to find baseball style programs for ceremony?

This site has some cute cake ideas too. I love the baseball glove!
http://www.earlenescakes.com/backbasbl.htm

This site has given me some great ideas for my wedding. Thanks for all the help!

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?

AFTER READING ALLIE’S RESPONSE I SEARCHED ON EBAY AND FOUND THE KNIFE SET YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT, IT IS IN AN EBAY STORE CALLED, WEDDING CAKE TOPPERS & DECOR, YOU CAN TRY AND SEARCH BASEBALL WEDDING KNIFE SET, IT SHOULD COME UP, IT IS CUTE, THEY ALSO HAVE A BASEBALL GROOM & BRIDE CAKE TOPPER. I AM ALSO PLANNING A BASEBALL THEME WEDDING AND HAVE FOUND THIS SITE VERY HELPFUL.

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.

Hello baseball lovers! I, an avid Red Sox fan, is getting married to a Mets fan this October, and I am trying to finalize things for our semi-babeball themed reception. Does anyone know where to get classy baseball napkins, ideally that could be persoanlized? Also, a baseaball thmed cake cutter/and or server? I thought about putting a knife on a bat, but that seems a little creppy. Please help, Jessica in Boston

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!!

Hey Ladies,

Added the “R” (soon to be “W”) to my name when I realized I wasn’t the only “Lisa” posting here. Hope you liked the book I wrote below…LOL!
Anyway, just wanted to share the epiphany I had about my centerpieces with you all…
Libbey Glass Co. makes these pilsner glasses with a baseball built into the stem - just google “Libbey baseball” as an image search and you’ll be able to see what I mean. They are part of the Libbey “Clubhouse Collection”. I’m going to use these as the vases for my centerpieces. It didn’t take long at all to find several suppliers who sell them by the case, around $30 for a dozen. You can also get them personalized if you want, although that runs about $12 each. Still not a bad price if your budget can afford it!

The floral portion of my centerpieces are actually bridesmaids bouquets, I’m not actually having any bridesmaids so the bridal floral package I got had all these bouquets I didn’t need. I’m simply going to plunk them into the glasses along with some of those decorative glass rocks and voila…my centerpieces are done!

Speaking of the flowers, I was racking my brain on how to elegantly incorporate the baseball theme…and again eBay provided the answer. Check out the eBay store “My Wedding Flowers” and look under “custom bouquets”. They offer roses where the petal tips are hand-dipped in your choice of color - they show an example of a white bouquet tipped in gold. I got all white roses tipped in red… It doesn’t exactly look like a baseball but the thin lines of red against all the white suggests the stitching of a baseball without being gaudy.

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:

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 http://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 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 http://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 http://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!

Well we went this past saturday to the Rangers game… Dont boo, now they are the 2nd worst team in the league.. There is actually someone worse..lol..

Anyway.. We got our bats for the wedding. We got one pink and one brown. We are going to use them for everyone to sign at the wedding. They are also engraved with..

Fell in love at home plate
Michael and Bronnie
09-08-07

We arent going completely baseball like I had first decided, but there are alot of baseball ideas thrown in here and there…

*Where we are standing at the alter will be a baseball home plate.
*The ring pillow will be Michaels glove.
*After our 1st dance the following dance will be to “Swing” by Trace Adkins.
*Our wedding party (friends) dance will be to You’ve got a friend in me the followed by All my rowdy friends by Hank Williams Jr.
* We are having beach balls on the dance floor that will look like baseballs.

Oh here is a good site to find sports stuff..
http://www.orientaltrading.com

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

Lisa,
There is a website I came across that does tickets. I don’t know much about it but the site looked interesting.
http://www.partiesbydebi.com/sportsplacecards.html

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 want to use baseball “tickets” as the place cards for our guests. does anyone know of a site to get these made? also, how have people set them up as far as the information on the “ticket”?

thanks

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.

THis is so wonderful, I too want a baseball theme wedding I wasn’t sure how to keep ot classy and this site is giving me alot of ideas. However, I would like to do like a baseball magnet or something along those lines for a “Save the Date” and use the baseball card idea for the actual invite. Any suggestions…I may switch this though since there is alot that has to be placed in an invite. Thank you so much.

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!!!

This is really the best place for cracker jack and peanuts if you are looking for a Baseball theme. I have bought from them three times now:
http://www.nationwidecandy.com/

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?

Hi,

I’m also planning on incorporating a little bit of baseball into our reception. You girls really have some great ideas that I have decided to use! I was thinking of having a baseball bat with our names and wedding date engraved. I thought it would be nice if all of our guests signed it but I’m not sure if a permanent marker would work on a wooden bat. ( I don’t want the ink to run) Any ideas…?

Also, I found an edible floral arrangement company that makes arrangements using fruit. They have a ceramic baseball filled with pineapple daisies, strawberries, grapes, cantaloupe and honeydew. I thought they would be really cute as a decoration as well as an appetizer. They run at about $70 for a large. The website is http://www.ediblearrangements.com and they are called Triple Play Bouquet.

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

responding to Debbie Katz’s note about table numbers for her son’s Bar Mitzvah - we just had my son’s Bar Mitzvah in April and the theme was Jewish Major Leaguers. Each table was a Jewish major league player, taken from the set of baseball cards. We had ceramic baseballs on the tables filled with chocolate baseballs. baseball keychains as napkin rings with a keytag on them as a keepsake. feel free to e-mail me with any questions @Jan65@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?

For anyone looking to purchase cracker jacks, peanuts, candy or seeds in bulk … I found this site and they have really quick shipping!

http://www.NationWideCandy.com

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 …

http://www.paperandmore.com/

We are having a baseball wedding. I would love to have a white baseball uniform for the gown. I was thinking maybe with sequences as a pin strip. Any idea where to find something like this?

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 http://www.customsportscards.com

There are some cute bat and ball keychains and glove and ball keychains for $9.95/dozen at orientaltrading.com (the company is oriental trading company) — Just an idea for favors.

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.

How on earth did ya’ll find a caterer that would make just hot dogs, hamburgers and nachos (if you did this). I’m having a hard time finding that.

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

I’m in the process of planning my son’s Bar Mitzvah. Any ideas on a baseball themed centerpieces which also uses balloons?

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.

Though we’re jsut doing a baseball themed reception we’ve found that minisportsballs.com will customize baseballs for us for only about $1.50 a peice. They sent us a sample ball and they were amazing. We’re doing all baseball themed food too so if anyone has suggestions to add to the food list above, that’d be appreciated!

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.

Another idea that you can use is to have a guest book and have baseballs for people to sign. We got a Louisville slugger customized with our names and wedding date and that will be a the centerpiece at the head table. Also–The Racing Sausage are a favorite at the ball park–so I am hiring one for the reception. We are signing the national anthem at the reception and we are going to dance to Take Me Out to the Ballgame. You can find the peanuts and cracker jack at a number of different stores.

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.

My boyfriend and I are getting married up in Cooperstown the weekend of the HOF inductions later this year. We are keeping the ceremony small, for obvious reasons. The following weekend, we are having the reception in our backyard, which by the way, he painted to look like Veterans Stadium, complete with a almost lifesize handmade wooden Phanatic. For the invitaions, I am planning on using custom tickets with the perforated part being the RSVP, a heck of a lot cheaper than printed invitations, I might add. Also, I am going to have baseball cards made up with our pic and info on them to give out as favors, along with boxes of cracker jacks, and bags of peanuts. I am having a hard time finding anyone online that customizes these items, like they do with chocolate bars, so I am going to order labels with our info on them, and just apply them to the back of the boxes and bags. I haven’t made up my mind on the cake though. I really like the idea of a baseball shaped cake placed on top of coconut tinted green to look like grass, but since there are going to be around 100 people there, I don’t see that being an option. I also haven’t decided on centerpieces yet. Still have some time. Congrats and good luck to all!
Monica

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.

Andrea, what a great story.
Try here for “a retro reproduction” of the cardboard Cracker Jack boxes. You’re right, they’re hard to find.

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…

Can anyone give me a wedding format for getting married on the field.

Would you have the ceremony at home or on the picture’s mound? Where does the family sit? In the stands or on the field too? I know I want our first act as husband and wife to be taking communion, where would we set up the alter?

I love the idea of getting married on the field, but I am not confident enough with my creative ideas to organize the ceremony. Any help hints would be greatly appreciated!

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 not having a baseball-themed wedding but we are interpersing baseball elements throughout. my fiancee and i are huge sf giants fans so our table numbers are numbers of our favorite players. i am trying to see if our favors can be personalized baseball cards of us. my ringbearers pillow is going to be round with the red lacing. we are also having 2 guestbooks, 1 traditional and for the other we are going to have people sign a personalized bat.
it is so cool to see other women having baseball themed weddings. congrats all!
kim

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 http://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.

great ideas here, thanks. I am doing a baseball theme for my son’s Bar Mitzvah. I am at a loss for centerpiece ideas…. any suggestions? Thanks!

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.

oh oh… I just had one hit me as I replyed… lets see… Ok do there names like a baseball card.. It would be great if you had pics of the guest, but if not do a border and have there name in the middle in some kind of basedall looking font…
I am thinking hard this time before I reply… To see if that is all I can come up with…. ok nothing else…

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…

That’s a cute idea but….we are already using pennants that we bought for the table names! LOL Are we on the same page of what!
Thanks for the idea anyway!

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…

Needs some help coming up with a cute idea for place cards for my wedding, October 21, 06. The tables will be names after different MLB teams. Any ideas!?

TIA!!

Amy

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!

Hi Everyone… I am looking for a place to order in-shell peanuts that have a personalized label with the names of the bride and groom. Does anyone have any suggestions?

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!

I am getting married Sept. 1, 2007… My fiance & I met playing coed softball, so we did fall in love over home plate…lol… Anyway, I have been trying to come up with some ideas for our wedding that wont seem to birthday party.. Thank you for the ideas, they seem pretty cool, and easy, and cheap…. I would love to know of anymore.. We were thinking of having the whole wedding party except me & Michael to wear jerseys… & the bridesmaids to carry gloves with flower balls in them with streamers hanging down… I have some but not many ideas… Then after the reception have a coed softball game… I think that would be so fun…

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

Good Luck!!!

I’m desperately searching for some baseball-themed vows. We are getting married on Saturday and I’ve looked all over the web for some fun vows. I did find some great Dr. Suess vows which our kids would love — but no baseball. Any ideas … or anyone ever hear of sports vows being said?

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, 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!!!

Hi there! I am also getting married on a baseball field! We are serving hot dogs and nachos, etc…we are keeping decos simple. Buying simply straight glass vases and putting baseballs in them for the centerpieces…we are doing peanuts and cracker jacks…etc. I’m having a local print shop make invites that are long and thin-tri fold so when they open up they look like a big baseball ticket and the stub is the RSVP card! I’m always looking for new ideas…if anyone has any, let me know!!! Good luck to all!

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

Hello,

I am getting married in May and I have been trying to find baseball themed favors for months and haven’t been able to find anything. Do you have any other ideas or websites that I can try? I was thinking that baseball measuring spoons(like they have with the hearts) would be cute but I think that - that is a pipe dream. Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Kristy

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