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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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.