Party Inspiration: Red Sox Bridal Shower

As I was on a blogging hiatus, I never posted about the planning and execution of my little sister's bridal shower. For years (long before she ever got engaged!), I knew I wanted to honor her love of the Red Sox and throw her a baseball themed shower. Once the question was popped and she started planning the wedding, she decided on hot pink and yellow as the color scheme. Taking my idea and her colors, I worked tirelessly to create a shower with ideas and decorations essentially coming from scratch as nothing was readily available pre-made and I didn't want to spend a fortune hiring someone from Etsy to do the dirty work for me. I am putting these photos out there because I hope my ideas will help inspire someone else someday...

Details

My cricut machine and "Sure-Cuts-A-Lot" programs were working overtime creating these custom Boston Red Sox "B"s in various sizes to decorate the gift table and outdoor seating area. Tiny "B"s adorned photos of the happy couple (and family!) at Fenway - these were coupled with fresh flowers in inexpensive bowl vases as table centerpieces.

Cricut Boston Red Sox "B"s

Party set-up in the backyard. Paper lanterns from Hobby Lobby.

Simple Centerpieces.
Glass vases for less than $1 at AC Moore. Flowers from Sam's Club. Hot Pink pearls from Michael's. 

Menu

I created a baseball/Boston themed menu featuring snacks/appetizers you'd find in a ballpark and a dinner menu straight from the North End. I added a flare to the menu by stamping it with a baseball stamp (the same I used to seal the invites) and embossing it for extra sparkle.

Snacks: "Fenway Franks" (pigs in a blanket), jumbo soft pretzels, buttered popcorn (in handmade paper treat cones), peanuts, and Cracker Jacks

Dinner: Tossed Salad with Olive Garden style dressing, caprese salad, bread and butter, baked ziti, and eggplant parm

Handmade Menu

Paper treat cones

Dessert

For dessert, I ordered a custom cake from a local baker. Unfortunately, this did not turn out as I had hoped. The baker did not take the appropriate notes during our meeting and had to change the entire cake last minute which resulted in (almost) the right design, but with shoddy decorations that were airbrushed instead of actual frosting mixed to the right color. I have liked this bakery in the past, but will not be using them again as I was very particular in my requests, brought a photo of the cake I wanted, and pointed out other cakes in the store that were done in the colors I wanted for the cake. 

My mom made chocolate dipped marshmallow pops and I made baseball cake pops to fit the theme as well. I also made a beautiful fresh fruit salad served in a trifle dish (not pictured). 

Baseball Cake

Dipped marshmallow pops

Baseball cake pops

Living Decorations

As an added touch to carry through the baseball theme, I made custom "team" shirts for all the bridal party members. All t-shirts and iron-on decorations were from Hobby Lobby. 

I'm going to ignore how unflattering this photo is of me to show the shirts...front of the t-shirts featured our names and a rhinestone number.

The back of the shirts featured the "Team Bride" logo and the "title" of the bridal party member - my bug's had a rhinestone iron-on for "flowergirl".

So that's it! I hope my work and ideas help someone planning a girly baseball themed party out:-)