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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I have the ticket template… I’ll just need your email addy. I would upload it to here, but I can’t convert it to an image.
Here’s what I”m using for a centerpiece, only we’re using orange mini gerbra daisies for the flowers
Also, who ever had the ticket template, I’d LOOOOOVE it if you could send it to me! I’ve been looking all over for one
Liz - on centerpeices, as well as the whole decor of the wedding, it depends on how much emphisis on baseball you want. I had a semi-formal wedding that was very relaxed and did have baseball incorporated. I had a huge table of baseball things…the crackerjack, popcorn, peanuts, pennants, baseballs, baby ruths, those little helmets, and more stuff. I wanted to do centerpeices of hurricane vases (walmart for like $4) with red roses and baseballs in the bottom…very subtle but still intertwinded. However, I had over 300 people and that got expensive fast. I also wanted to put a baseball in a celophane bag with red shredded paper (for the Cardinals) and tie it with a baseball ribbon… but also very expensive. So what I did was just flower arrangements (red and white roses) with some little baseballs spread on the table… (they sell those little chocolate baseballs on bulk candy stores - make sure you order ice packets as well or they might melt) This was just the right touch. But again, it all depends on how much baseball you want. I still had a very elegant wedding while still having fun with the baseball!
(some weddings are tooooo much baseball and begin to look…well….trashy and not like weddings at all. You can still have YOUR wedding as well as a litte baseball. Don’t want to be too overwhelming).
Any centerpiece ideas?
I can email you the ticket that I made… I made it in word. You can just use my template and change the colors, wording, etc. Just let me know your email addy if you would like.
i would love access to your template too - thinking of using for bar mitzvah save the date card
would you please sent me the template as well!
Megan, We took the idea from this site of putting a baseball card in our save-the-dates: http://www.customsportscards.com Might work for you too, if you don’t want to have to do so much yoursefl. You’d need to get the pictures taken, and tell them how to design it, but you wouldn’t have to create the design yourself. You put pictures of yourselves on the cards, and you could do some fun things with Yankees vs. BoSox. (Picture of you both in jerseys from your respective teams, etc.) I’m sure that you could incorporate the logos.
Best of luck!
Does anyone have any cute ideas for do-it yourself invitations? Also, how do you get the template for sports tickets! Mine is a Cubs themed wedding reception!
Jess, Thank you so much! This is very helpful. I didn’t even know where to begin.
Megan…. You’ll probably save yourself alot of time and money and headaches if you just design the save the dates yourself. You can get great cardstock from paperandmore.com and then have them printed by kinkos or something like that. It’s just a little bit more work, but is definately worth it. You can even do a photo of the two of you in your team’s gear then upload to printsmadeeasy.com or kodakgallery.com or another place and do a flat card (similar to a post card)… your photo on the front and all of the info on the back. With the cost of stamps and professional designing you’ll end up spending wwwwaaaayyyy too much on something that’s just fun. Spend your money on a cool baseball table, a grooms cake, some fun games for the kids, or by leaving a ticket on each table…. on that note… you could design a Yankee vs Red Sox “ticket” as a save the date. I made my own on Word. I think I took a picture and posted them below… I also think that Walmart and Walgreens have sports cards that you can add your info to the back or even add a label to the back. The possibilities are endless!
My fiance is a Yankee fan and I am a Red Sox fan- I am looking for Save the dates where I can put a Red Sox and Yankee logo on them. Does anyone know of any good websites? Thanks!
Megan
FOR A TOPPER WE JUST DID A NEW BASEBALL & “AUTOGRAPHED” IT WITH A SILVER METALLIC MARKER, THEN CIRCLED IT IN DAISIES, VERY CHEAP LOOKED GREAT
Hey Ashley - We are doing peanuts and cracker jacks and are placing them in clear cellophane bags from here:
http://www.papermart.com/templates/75-0-40.htm
We found a woman on Etsy.com to make our favor tags — hopefully the photo will show up — with ribbons to tie the bags closed. (We had stickers made of the same thing to decorate plain white boxes for our guests to take home leftover cake.)
Good luck and have fun planning!
I know that some people are using the baseball cards and the baseball admission tickets! I know some people have made them to! How would you find the template or program to make these items! If anyone has any ideas, I would greatly appreciate it! Also, my favors will also be peanuts and cracker jacks and maybe even popcorn. Does anyone have any ideas what to put these in? Thank you!!
Hi Liz. I was just married on May 25th, and I had a baseball themed wedding with baseballs as favors. I actually got the name from this site it is called minisportsballs.com. We had our names printed on the front with the date, and on the back we scanned a copy of our signatures. It was about $2 a ball would be a little less if you didnt get the second side, but we thought it would be easier and neatier than signing over 250 balls. The company was very professional and speedy in the delivery, they do offer rush shipping and usually have specials (1 free screen charge) or discounts. Defintely something to look into. Good luck and Happy planning.
Does anyone know a good site that I can get baseballs engraved/personalized at? I would prefer something at a reasonable price, but if that isn’t possible, I would take any suggestions. Thanks in advance!
its really easy and cheap!
You get the little terra cotta planters from somewhere like Lowe’s or Home Depot with some potting soil and grass seed and mix in a few flower seeds of your liking. It took us about 3 weeks of growing to get them right.
Hi everyone! My fieance is in LOVE with baseball… we call him a walking Sports Center because of all of his knowledge of baseball and sports in general. With that being said we want to add some of his baseball flair into the wedding. We arn’t going to do a sports theme becasue even though I love sports too I still wanted the wedding to be as I like to call it “Ropmantic-Elegance with lots of FUN!” My colors are a deepish purple with chocolate and champign accents. I have some ideas as to what I am going to do to tie in the baseball theme but I think that it would be really cool if I were able to add in the center pieces also. (The flowers are going to be the bridesmaid’s boquets… saved me $1000!!) Right now they are going to be carrying long stem callalillis. The tables are chocolate with cream mapkins and china table settings, we will also have the purple tied in with the hidranga (spelling?) pettles (purple) on the tables and I also wold like to have candles…. any ideas that you have please let me know I can always be adaptable! The wedding is Nov. 15 2008!!!!
THANKS SO MUCH!!!
CONGRATS TO ALL THE BRIDES!!!!
Charity,
Can you tell me more about that centerpiece with the grass and the baseball with flowers? I LOVE IT! I must figure out a way to do those.
Try this one…I think the guys name was Matt Golden 718.803.4004
Luci, here’s a link to Yankee’s gaters online, I used this company for my Mets ones and they’re FANTASTIC!
http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/kristis_charmed_life…Yankees