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.

Let’s Choose a Date!

We’ve narrowed down the 2026 soiree to two (2) dates: Saturday, October 17th or Saturday, October 24th.

Which of these days do you prefer? Choose both if you’re available for both!

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.

2026

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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 (maybe) 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.

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

What’s new in 2026? Do not eat before you come, seriously!

We had so much leftover food the first few years, it was nutty. Sure, my family ate like kings the rest of the weekend, but it was borderline wasteful.

So don’t get cheap on me, Dodgson (Jurassic Park reference), and bring the goods! Just be sure to come hungry and thirsty!

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Before you RSVP…
Wanna bring anything?

Each year everyone has been really generous and have brought a myriad of delicacies. I’ll list out some ideas of what you can bring, mostly inspired by previous years. 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! We’ll have plenty of stuff to snack on. And again, DO NOT EAT before you come.

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:

Name
Bringing Anything?
Brent Polson
Something yummy
Dan Dorger
Pizza
Dan Gorman
Chips, dips
Dave Schmidt
Fall Old Fashioned, S'mores, chips, and more!
James Quinn
Joshua Sumner
Lee Freitag
Michael Heath
Let me know what you need!
Mike West
Wings
Mike Schmidt
Nothing!
Nick Early
Food
Ryan Keller
Pizza
Scott Smith
Something – taking requests
Vince Lucca
Edibles

Unfortunately, these handsome fellas won’t be joining us on the 24th. 😢

Dave Farber
Vince Fuentes
Jason Hyong
Josh Bretl
Tommy Heinemann
Spencer Butryn

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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. In our inaugural soiree (2024) the one 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.

That’s a hard NO, friend! Seriously, we’ll have so much food and I don’t want to waste any of it. If we don’t order pizzas later in the night it’ll mean we didn’t eat enough of the food everyone brought. And I’ll be mad!

Plan on the soiree starting at 6pm. 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!