If you and your doubles partner for life are still looking for that perfect day to tie the knot, I just found your dream wedding, destination, and cost. 

The Pickle Lodge in Butler County, OH will be hosting their first wedding on June 14, 2025 – and it could be your wedding. 

Couples who share a love for pickleball can enter into the Perfect Match Wedding Giveaway for a chance to win a free wedding. Given how expensive venues, attire, flowers, and beverages are, a free wedding feels like a ‘Pinch me, I’m dreaming’ moment.

The Pickle Lodge partnered with regional marketing organization, Travel Butler County, to create this contest for pickleball love birds.

Whether you’re a couple who met on the court or simply love playing together, the contest asks each couple to creatively share how pickleball played a key element in their love story. It could be the setting for your first kiss or the court chemistry that solidified that this is the person you want to play with for life – pickleball is at the center of a lot of people’s love tales. And the makers of this contest want to celebrate that. 

The winning couple will receive the full wedding experience, including:

• - A complimentary hotel stay for two nights, the night before the wedding and the night for the couple
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• - One room at hotel property and one room at The Pickle Lodge for the bridal party to get ready on the wedding day 
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• - Pickle Lodge outdoor and indoor venue space for up to 100 guests reserved on Saturday, June 14, including tables, linens, chairs, and dance floor
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• - Custom pickleball wedding cake, pizza catering, craft beer, and custom pickleball floral arrangement
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• - Photographer, DJ, and officiant
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• - Pickleball instructors to give guests lessons during the reception 
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• - Custom pickleball shoes, paddles, apparel for the newlyweds, and a whole lot more
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To enter, couples must submit their pickleball love stories at ThePerfectMatchWedding.com by 11:59 p.m. on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2025.

Act quickly because this is truly a once-in-a-lifetime kind of deal. 

The teams at The Pickle Lodge and Travel Butler County couldn’t be more excited about this contest. 

“Anybody who plays pickleball has met new friends on the court,” said The Pickle Lodge Co-Founder Mitch Dunnsaid. “The Perfect Match is the ultimate celebration of the sport’s unique ability to bring people together.”

I hope one of the couples from my pickleball league wins. I’d love to go to a pickleball wedding where the bridal party changes into tennis dresses then has a tournament after the happy couple says “I do.” 

For their honeymoon, I think the couple should go on a pickleball getaway and  celebrate their anniversary at PPA Tournament stops.

Love is in the air if they’re on the pickleball court.