Cozy outdoor bonfire with musical entertainment, crafting, and drinks at Schmidtty's Swäter Wetter Söiree event. Enjoy food, music, and socializing around the fire in a welcoming atmosphere.
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So what is this thing? Please tell me more, man!

Schmidty’s Sweater Weather Soiree is the annual get together of my favorite group of dudes: My oldest friends from high school, new buddies from the ‘hood, fellow coaches and sports Dads, work peeps, familia, and everyone in between. Oh, and a few bad ass chicks for good measure.

My old man will be in town again. And in an effort to prove to him that I do in fact have friends, TONS of friends, the invite list will be in the thousands.

And what about last year’s soiree? I only remember that Mike West brought nothing and ate everything.

But seriously, check out some photos from last year (below the RSVP form) and let your FOMO rage on.

Add the night to your calendar, my man:

Before you RSVP…
Wanna bring anything?

Last year everyone was really generous and brought a myriad of delicacies. I’ll list out some ideas of what you can bring, mostly inspired by last year. If you’d like to contribute, there’s a field on the RSVP form to let me know.

But other than your beverage of choice, don’t feel obligated to bring anything to eat! I’m sure we’ll have plenty of stuff to snack on.

I do ask that everyone bring their own folding chair, I definitely don’t have enough to go around. And let me be clear: your ass deserves a chair all to its own.

Here’s some things we had last year:

Autumn Old Fashioned
Bourbon
Assortment of beer
High Noon
Cider beer
Tacos
Wings
Pizza
A bunch of dips
A bunch of chips
Homemade oatmeal cream pies. They were ridiculous.
Cookies and brownies
Jimmy John’s sandwiches
Deli wraps from Costco
Cigars

What I need everyone to bring:

Your own chair
Your own beverage(s)

What I need a FEW of you to bring:

Ice
Coolers

RSVP!

The following distinguished gentleman are attending:

First
Last
Bringing Anything?
Brent
Polson
Whatever I can find at Costco, probably some sort of dip.
Dave
Schmidt
Autumn Old Fashioned, S'mores, chips, other stuff
Ed
Maher
A gimp suit and $100 worth of gas station drugs
James
Quinn
Joe
LaBarre
Something neighborly
Josh
Bretl
We'll See what feels good that day. I'm hoping to Scott Smith comes.
Lee
Freitag
I’ll surprise you 😉
Matt
Novak
Magnums and baby oil (with Diddy behind bars it’s back in stock)
Mike
Schmidt
Not a damn thing, son!
Mike
West
Wings
Nick
Early
Nick
Curran
Chips and salsa!
Shaun
Wishnevski
Cookies and/or Brownies

Add the night to your calendar, my man:

Questions, Frequently Asked.

It’s a soiree designed for just the boys! That being said, if you must bring your lady friend, we can make that work. And yes, last year the only and only Rachel Novak made her appearance. She proceeded to drink each and every man under the table, while still keeping her shit together. And yes, I’m hoping she makes her appearance again this year.

The short answer is “YES!” You’ll definitely want to bring your own folding chair and beverage of choice. I’ll have a few fall-inspired cocktails and snacks, along with coolers with ice. And as soon as the RSVP form goes live I’ll add some ideas of what we could use, i.e. handhelds, snacks, drinks, desserts, etc.

Exact time TBD. But last year we started around 6ish and most fellas left around midnight.

Well, you’ll have me! Isn’t that enough?! I’ll post a guest list to this page as folks RSVP.

I’ll have 3-4 canopies set up, plus we have a decent sized gazebo, so we should be good! Most of y’all reading this have been banned from entering my house (per Carla’s request), but I can turn off the cameras that are scattered around the house. It’ll be our little secret.

If you keep up the sass, I will force everyone to participate in Halloween themed activities such as bobbing for apples, face painting, and playing ghost in the graveyard. We’ll have football playing, Halloween movies playing, and who knows – There may be some lazer tag involved at some point. Hmmmmm….

Hell. No.

‘Cause I’m special, man. Get on board!