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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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
My fiance basically grew up on a baseball field he even got a baseball scholarship after high school! He loves the Dodgers and I would love to get a special dedication message for him from Tommy Lasorda. How did you possibly obtain that contact! We are getting married in September 09 and would love to surprise him. I would appreciate any help you can offer.
Thanks
Monica
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!
Laurie, hi my fiance and I are huge met fans and we really want to incorporate that in to your wedding…he really wants the blue and orange to be our colors I am not so sure could you please tell me what you did?
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
Hi Lisa,
Do you have the contact information for the woman who made your place cards. I love them!
Thanks
Laura Diaz
Sorry Laura, Here it is:
Christina Walsh
christina_walsh@verizon.net
508-944-5995
Good luck
Lisa
I absolutely love this idea. I seen your wedding on the Knot but the pictures are hard to see. What was holding the ticket place cards? and where did you get them?
Thanks
Melissa
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/
Charity,
I took a look at your wedding website, my fiance and I want a Mets themed wedding also. I noticed you named your tables after Mets players i/e the David Wright table. How did you do your place card settings? I have been racking my brain trying to figure out how we we’re going to do that and I LOVE YOURS!
Thank you!
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
CAN YOU TELL ME HOW TO DO THIS. I AM DOING A DETROIT TIGER THEME. THANK YOU.
Open the document, right click on the area that you want to change the color for, select format Auto Shape, and it should bring up a box to select your color.
THANKS FOR THE 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
I want those as my invites for my wedding! Can you tell me where I can get them for my wedding. My fiance would love them!
Thx Rosie
I love your tickets…but i can’t for the life of me figure out how to change the background color to match the tigers! Help!
Hello,
Were you able to figure out how to change the background color on Beth’s Club ticket? Please Help!!! Thanks!
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.
If you find these can you PLEASE let me know!! I would really appreciate it.
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