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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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/)