Planning Your Basketball Themed Wedding

Are you looking for a unique way to get married? Something different than the traditional or a traditional wedding that includes some more personal elements of yourselves in your special day.  A themed wedding might be just the answer.  Planning a themed wedding is all about the details. Having the appropriate venue, that perfect cake, invitations that set the right mood, and especially the right attire can make for a memorable wedding experience for you and your guests. Themed weddings are all about doing something more personal, even if it means being unconventional.


For the sports enthusiast, planning a NBA basketball themed wedding is certainly a reasonable consideration. For couples who met at a Miami Heat game or just enjoy watching NBA basketball together or for the couple that's dedicated to their alma mater, this theme can accessorize a unique wedding event that everyone will remember for years to come. A basketball themed wedding is all in the details and special, creative touches that you use to convey your theme and personalize your wedding. All you need is a home team in white (the bride and her bridesmaids), a visiting team in colors (the groom and his groomsmen), coaches (the parents of the bride and groom), referee (the minister) and a crowd (the guests).  Now you have the makings of a full court extravaganza that's only limited by your own imagination.


To begin your planning, we'd like to suggest considering a set of basketball themed wedding invitations. Our custom wedding invitations are designed to look like actual tickets to your favorite professional National Basketball Association or college basketball team. We can generate team color combinations or use a ticket stub supplied by you to create the wedding invitations, whether it was the game you met at, a game that was special to you, or the game that you proposed at on the scoreboard. Make the ticket to your wedding the hottest ticket in town!


We also offer a basketball themed wedding program, designed to look like a basketball gameday program. All the information about your special day from the wedding ceremony itself to the reception can be styled into a multi-page, full color program featuring your wedding party as the starting lineup for your wedding ceremony. You can incorporate pictures of the bride and groom and other special personal photos into your “gameday” program as well.


Once you have designed and personalized your NBA basketball themed wedding invitations and wedding programs, there are several other unique touches to make your wedding a day to remember. To start planning the other touches, we have put together a few creative ideas to help you plan your basketball-themed wedding:

• Basketball Themed Ceremony Locations: There are many choices for basketball themed wedding locations, whether you want to use the basketball court at a local high school, college, event center, or NBA arena, center court is a great place for a wedding. 
• Unique Guestbook Ideas: Guests can sign a white leather-covered basketball.   The white-leather signature series basketballs are designed for this purpose, so it makes the perfect guestbook for your basketball themed wedding. Another idea for a unique guestbook is to sign a custom made white jersey with the date of the wedding as the player number.
• Basketball Wedding Cake: There are many options to choose from when selecting a basketball-themed wedding cake, whether you want a cake shaped like a basketball, a basketball court, or a basketball rim and net. For a simpler cake design, find bride and groom wedding cake toppers featuring the colors and logo of you favorite team.
• Wedding Favors: Mini-basketballs that can either be hand-signed by the bride and groom or custom-printed with your names and wedding date, or a mini-office basketball hoop can be customized with your wedding information.
• For the Groomsmen: NBA ball leather cufflinks, engraved pilsner glasses, NBA money clips
• If you decide not to have your wedding at a basketball-themed location, taking your wedding pictures at a basketball court can be a fun alternative, providing you with a semblance of tradition but pictures that everyone would love to have.  Sometimes a photo can be accented by some unique accessories.  For example, have the Groomsmen wear team socks and pull up their pantlegs for one photo or team logo undershirts that are revealed in a photo by bridesmaids ripping open their shirts standing behind them.
• For more Basketball Themed Wedding Ideas, follow our Basketball Wedding Pinterest Page.

For some of our customers, a ticket-style wedding invitation somewhat overwhelms the traditional tone they want to set for their wedding day.  Many of these customers find that a set of ticket-style save the dates allows them to include their love of sports in their special day without giving up the traditional elements they've always dreamt of.  Please take a look at some of the save the date examples we've done as well.

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