Baseball Theme Weddings
"There are only two seasons — winter and Baseball."
— Bill Veeck
You've figured it out — you both want to play on the same team for life. But how to play to the cheering crowd when it comes to your wedding day?
Here are a few tips for a wedding Lou Gehrig would love ... and a whole lot of experience below from hype-creative fans.
Note to Guests: You've Got Box Seats
Try eBay for helpful stationers who can whip up elegant, personalized baseball theme wedding invitations. Or be super-chic and send your guests custom event tickets that look just like the real thing.
Baseball Decor
Decor doesn't have to be hard. Try centerpieces featuring roses in your team colors. Chicago Cubs fan? Try red and white hand-tied bouquets in vases you've tied off with royal blue ribbon. Attach a handsome enameled team pin to the center of a bow, and you've got an elegant arrangement.Another fun idea: fill large clear vases with mini baseballs, and top with floral "baseballs" made of densely petaled flowers, like white carnations. Adorable!
Got a sweet tooth? A candy buffet in your colors can be a bold and beckoning statement. Concession picks are perfect here — so are local city treats. Don't forget to fill a jar or two (or scatter the linens) with a few chocolate baseballs. Personalizing striped takeout or pillow boxes with a cute custom label is half the fun. Or, go upscale and yet still stay on theme with a gourmet popcorn bar (Dale & Thomas is a decadent favorite).
Then, dress up your tables with elegant vintage baseball cards — or simply name them after leading lights from your favorite team.
Don't forget the ceremony! A treasured mitt makes a wonderful ring pillow. And for fabulous photos, exit under a shower of pennants .... or ask your best men to line the chapel steps so you can duck beneath an "arch of bats" as husband and wife.
Last but not least — hand your guests some Sharpies and have them sign a few baseballs or a handsome bat instead of the usual (yawn!) guest book.
A Moveable Feast
Create an unforgettable cocktail hour and bring the astroturf indoors by offering a few outdoor vending classics to your delighted guests — available at major rental stores: soft pretzels with mustard and cheese (or nachos & cheese), ballpark franks, movie-style popcorn, or salt water taffy in waxed paper bags with personalized labels. The carts make these fabulous.For the non-drinkers, serve up personalized bottled water ... and classic Coke with real sugar (no corn syrup!) in glass bottles. This will get guests cheering for days.
A fun addition to cocktail hour? Mock up some "sports news sections" to take to the printers, with headlines starring you and your honey:
Mark
and Tori Named CCAC Couple of the Year
Baseball's Winningest Couple Returns To [Hometown]
Tori Selected To The NAIA True Love Team
Mark Earns Top Hitter, Matrimonial Distinction
Needless to say, happy stats and headlines like these are best served with fresh-cut cigars.
Baseball Favors
The baseball theme's a cinch to pull off when it comes to favors. Here are some fun ones:
If your guest list's intimate, offer up baseball caps for your beloved Cubs or Red Sox on a table near the door. Or, old-fashioned Crackers Jacks in the boxes makes a head-turning treat.
Team-emblazoned cookies or individual cupcakes can really dress to impress when whipped up by talented pastry artists. Set up a baseball-themed candy buffet. Or, hand out bags of favorite hometown treats: Cubs branded peanuts, Boston Baked Beans. Attach a cute tag with a favor saying, such as You Made Our Wedding A Hit or Our Love Hit A Home Run.
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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!