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Dr. Michael and Logan Sybert are dressed for their wedding reception Oct. 25 at Senator John Heinz History Center. Their love of all things Pittsburgh brought them to the attention of former Pittsburgh Steeler and 2005 Super Bowl champion Mike Logan. Submitted photo<\/p>\n
Dr. Michael and Logan Sybert wanted their wedding day to feel uniquely Pittsburgh \u2014 and there are few cultural icons that represent the Steel City better than Heinz ketchup.<\/p>\n
Along with selecting the Senator John Heinz History Center as their venue, Logan\u2019s mom, Bunny Goetz, hatched an idea to turn the Pittsburgh staple into a practical wedding favor that their guests could appreciate.<\/p>\n
Each table was adorned with miniature ketchup bottles featuring custom \u201cMike & Logan\u201d labels, a nod to the world-famous 149-year-old brand founded by Henry John Heinz.<\/p>\n
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Former Steelers player and 2005 Super Bowl champion Mike Logan holds a favor from the Oct. 25 wedding of Dr. Mike Sybert and the former Logan Goetz. He saw the favors online and reached out to the bride. Submitted photo<\/p>\n
\u201cWe thought it would be a favor that people would be excited about, and then they could have their own little personal purse ketchup,\u201d Logan said. \u201cIt went along well with the Pittsburgh theme.\u201d<\/p>\n
A day later, the couple\u2019s wedding photographer, Ninety Eight Media, posted several Instagram stories of the special occasion, including one of four ketchup bottles neatly positioned on a white tablecloth.<\/p>\n
Then came an unexpected twist. Through a mutual friend, former Pittsburgh Steeler and 2005 Super Bowl champion Mike Logan saw the post and immediately wanted some of his own.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe messaged me on Instagram saying that he loved the ketchup bottles and was asking if he could pay me to send him some,\u201d Logan Sybert said with a laugh. \u201cI just ended up sending him like three ketchup bottles in the mail and didn\u2019t make him pay, of course. He got them, and I just asked if he could send me a selfie with his ketchup bottles.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sure enough, he sent back a smiling photo holding his \u201cMike & Logan\u201d ketchup and another photo of the bottles resting on one of his No. 31 jerseys.<\/p>\n
\u201cMike Logan reaching out for our novelty ketchup bottles was certainly the icing on the cake of an amazing wedding weekend,\u201d Michael Sybert said. \u201cBeing able to give a Super Bowl champion something special to us, especially on the 20th anniversary of the championship, was a moment we\u2019ll never forget.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Former Pittsburgh Steelers and 2005 Super Bowl champion Mike Logan frames the name on his jersey with favors from the wedding of Dr. Michael Sybert and the former Logan Goetz on Oct. 25. He saw the favors online and reached out to the bride. Submitted photo<\/p>\n
Logan, a former NFL safety who played for his hometown team from 2001-2006, wasn\u2019t even on their radar when the bottles were being designed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe didn\u2019t even think about it,\u201d Logan Sybert said. \u201cIt was a really cool thing that of course there\u2019s a Steeler named Mike Logan. It\u2019s just hilarious that his name ended up being on the ketchup bottle, and it\u2019s funny how it all connected.\u201d<\/p>\n
The ketchup theme didn\u2019t stop there, however. The couple\u2019s wedding colors were red, Michael wore Heinz-themed socks, and later that night, the pair even changed into Heinz ketchup and mustard costumes before hitting the dance floor.<\/p>\n
Michael, who graduated from Mars Area High School, and Logan, who attended Seneca Valley High School, now live together in the city they adore. On their wedding day, Michael even made the walk in his tuxedo from the couple\u2019s home in the Strip District to the venue.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur wedding was a perfect example to showcase the beauty and awe of Pittsburgh and our love of the city, to our family and friends,\u201d Michael Sybert said. \u201cMany of our guests were local and felt right at home with the theme, but there were also several people from out of town who were entrenched in the Pittsburgh culture for the very first time. It was very gratifying to see their excitement and share what our city is about.\u201d<\/p>\n
As lifelong fans of Pittsburgh\u2019s beloved team, they attended the Steelers and Green Bay Packers \u201cSunday Night Football\u201d game to cap off their wedding weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was really special,\u201d Logan Sybert said of her Pittsburgh-focused wedding. \u201cWe love to call Pittsburgh home, so we were excited to celebrate that with us and our marriage. It was great to show our out-of-town guests why we love Pittsburgh so much.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Dr. Michael and Logan Sybert dress up for part of their wedding reception Oct. 25 at the Senator John Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh. Submitted photo<\/p>\n
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Dr. Michael Sybert, a Mars High School alumnus, and his bride, Logan Goetz, who attended Seneca Valley High School, relax at the Senator John Heinz History Center where they were married Oct. 25. Sybert wears Heinz socks to go with their theme of a Pittsburgh wedding. Submitted photo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. Michael and Logan Sybert are dressed for their wedding reception Oct. 25 at Senator John Heinz History…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3035,3027,3022,3042,3048,3051,1610,3030,3028,31,3029,3034,3025,3047,3041,3024,3045,3033,3023,3036,182,3049,3039,139,3026,28,3040,73,75,74,39,3031,3044,3043,3032,3050,3038,3037,3046],"class_list":["post-28384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-bruin","tag-butler","tag-butler-eagle","tag-cabot","tag-callery","tag-cherry-valley","tag-community-news","tag-connoquenessing","tag-cranberry","tag-crime","tag-east-butler","tag-eau-claire","tag-education-news","tag-evans-city","tag-fairview","tag-government-news","tag-harmony","tag-harrisville","tag-high-school-sports-news","tag-karns-city","tag-local-news","tag-mars","tag-mount-chesnut","tag-news","tag-obituaries","tag-pennsylvania","tag-petrolia","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-political-news","tag-portersville","tag-sarver","tag-saxonburg","tag-slippery-rock","tag-valencia","tag-west-liberty","tag-west-sunbury","tag-zelienople"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}