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 baseball-loving brides.
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
Happily, finding a few fun touches that show off your sporty side isn't hard!A Rousing Reception
Try centerpieces featuring roses in your team colors. Chicago Cubs fan? Place bridesmaids' red and white 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!
Add table numbers made from elegant vintage baseball cards — or simply name your tables after leading lights from your favorite team.
Tastes of the Game
Got a sweet tooth? A candy buffet in your colors can be a bold and beckoning statement. Concession picks are perfect here — so are regional 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 — or, dress up nostalgic Cracker Jacks boxes with a ribbon or sticker.Ceremonial Touches
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.
Hi Courteny,
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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?