When Samantha Korsi picked her wedding venue two years ago, she had no idea she'd one day be fighting Major League Baseball for a reception date. But with the Milwaukee Brewers now in the World Series, Korsi and her fiancé are set to marry the same day as Game 2 — and they've already made peace with it by booking TVs for the reception so guests won't miss a pitch.
A Stadium Switch and a Shared Celebration
Korsi originally hoped to host her wedding at American Family Field, but as TMJ4 reports, the couple was told the stadium wasn't available — “we couldn't have it at the stadium,” Korsi said. Instead, she booked the Timber Rattlers ballpark in Appleton, setting up a wedding day that now happens to fall on the same date as World Series Game 2. Rather than fight the overlap, the couple is leaning into it, planning to show the game during the celebration and letting guests wear Brewers gear if they'd like.
Korsi isn't the only Wisconsin bride threading this needle. According to FOX6 News, Tiffany Lenza is also getting married this postseason, in Burlington, and plans to have the game playing at her reception too. Both brides told the station they didn't want guests sneaking glances at the score on their phones — hence the decision to just put a TV on. The outlet notes that a lot of these wedding dates and venues were locked in roughly two years ago, long before anyone could have penciled in a Brewers World Series run.
A Riverwest Wedding Weekend Collides With the Fall Classic
Another couple navigating the overlap is Anna Story and Daniel Hoeft, who live in Houston but are Brewers fans planning to marry Saturday at Falcon Bowl in Riverwest, a Milwaukee venue described by The Knot as a historic hall founded in 1915. Per reporting from Sarah Richardson in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the couple set their wedding date before the Brewers clinched their World Series berth, and World Series Games 1 and 2 happen to line up with their welcome reception and ceremony weekend.
Story and Hoeft's Zola registry lists two gifts. Their wedding weekend now shares a calendar with the Fall Classic.
Not the Only Couple Caught Between First Pitch and First Dance
Wisconsin isn't alone in this predicament. In Davenport, Iowa, Rebekah Weidenbach and Abner Torres found themselves on opposite sides of the same World Series after their teams — the Brewers and the Tampa Bay Rays — ended up facing each other, according to Yahoo Sports. Weidenbach grew up about a mile from the Brewers' ballpark, while Torres spent his childhood at Tropicana Field cheering on the Rays. The two leaned fully into the rivalry at their own wedding, calling it “Opening Day,” wearing their respective team jerseys, and making tables represent teams whose stadiums or spring training facilities they had visited; the seating chart looked like a starting lineup.
The scramble reflects a broader moment for Brewers fans this fall. The team's trip to the World Series is a first for an entire generation of supporters, as one Milwaukee Journal Sentinel writer put it: “there's one place Milwaukee Brewers baseball has never taken me or anyone my age. That's about to change,” according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. For couples whose venues and dates were set long before this run began, that novelty has turned into a logistical puzzle — one being solved, it seems, with a TV cart and a flexible dress code rather than any fight between love and baseball.
