This has been the summer of weddings in my group of friends (remember all the handmade wedding invitations I’ve received?), and a couple of weeks ago I attended a really fun wedding reception that had a baseball theme. It was so fun and full of neat ideas that I just had to share.
A clever guest book
My favorite aspect of the reception by far was the guest book. Nothing ordinary would due for THIS baseball-loving bride and groom. Their guest “book” was actually a baseball jersey! They started by ordering a personalized baseball jersey, complete with their last name and the year of the wedding. Then they laid it flat on a table at the reception and provided several fabric markers with permanent ink
A wedding logo
The bride had decided to use a baseball theme many months ago, and had told me that she wanted to have some sort of logo to use throughout the event, to unify everything and make it all match. She wanted a stick figure sketch of a bride and groom playing baseball, and I was happy to help her out. Here’s the sketch I made for her, which you are welcome to use for your own wedding, too, if you like.
Having read our previous post on ordering custom rubber stamps, one of the first things she did with the sketch was to order a custom stamp from RubberStamps.net. Then she used the stamp on her invitations, envelopes, save-the-dates, and more. It really gave an adorable feel to the wedding.
Some cake ideas
For the wedding cake, my friend was lucky enough to find this cake topper of a bride and groom playing baseball.
More ideas?
Have any of you been to a sports-themed wedding or have more ideas for having a fun baseball twist? Our bride readers would love more ideas, so please share!
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How fun! I loved themed events that are personal to the bride and groom. These ideas are great, I’ll be linking.
An additional baseball item is a personalized mini-bat from the Louisville Slugger people. The couple’s name and wedding date can be put on the bats and will make a unique remembrance of the couple’s special day.
Great idea, Rita! Personalized bats would be really memorable. Also worth considering are mini baseball bats to match your favorite team.
My fiance really wants a gold wedding band with a baseball engraved on it. Any ideas where I might find something like that?
Hi Julie. What a neat and personal idea. I just did a Google search for “outside engraving ring” and got quite a few hits. Try it out and I bet one of them can give you what you’re looking for.
Great ideas! My husband and I actually got married on a minor league baseball field right before a the game so we had a baseball themed wedding and reception.
We too used a logo through out things to tie everything together. Ours was a baseball and our names and the date curved around the baseball.
I walked down an “aisle” of 22 steps to the field and then walked through a military style formation of the players holding baseball bats.
Our cake topper was an actual baseball. We had baseball hats that said bride and groom that we only put on for a few minutes to throw out the first pitch and after that they sat on a table with the baseball that the proposal was written on.
Our programs had a “play by play” of the events. Then the bridesmaids and groomsmen were listed as the bride’s team and groom’s team. Our parents were listed as our coaches.
It was a very unique and fun wedding and something that our friends are still talking about.
Coley, thanks so much for sharing the details of your wedding with us. I’m sure our readers will get lots of inspiration from your ideas. I love everything you did, but I think my favorite part was listing your parents as your coaches on the programs. How perfect and sweet!
hi chica and jo.. find your site very interesting..
my fiancee and i are planning for a spa themed wedding.. any ideas how to go about it? thanks…
Ray, what a relaxing wedding that would be! A few ideas to get you going…have massage therapists at the reception that will give guests 15 minute chair massages. Have large pitchers filled with slices of orange and lemon and iced water just like they do at the spas. Make centerpieces out of columns of citrus fruit as well. Give guests little sachets of lavender to take home with a small thank you tag attached. Perhaps you could even cover the chair backs in some white terry cloth fabric to remind your guests of spa towels and robes. It would also be fun to have some white terry cloth slippers next to the dance floor for tired feet! Include lots of aromatherapy lotions in the baskets you make for the guest bathroom. Please send us photos of your reception or add them to our Flickr group!
hi jo…thank you so much for these super duper bright ideas… i truly love them and will surely have a relaxing wedding because of the ideas that you willingly shared…
please expect the photos of our reception on sept 2010… this we pledge to you as a token of our appreciation for helping us start our dream wedding…
again, my sincerest thanks…
raylyn
My fiance and I are having a baseball themed wedding and for our guestbook, we are using a Home Plate for people to sign!
Elizabeth, what a great idea! I would love to see a picture of your signed home plate later.