Invite Chocolate To Your Wedding!
August 12, 2010
Chocolate and celebrations go back as early as the ancient Maya, maybe even earlier. The Maya served a frothy chocolate beverage made from crushed cacao beans. Perhaps it was used for the first toast by the best man!
Today, the tradition of serving chocolate at weddings continues. Receptions serve guests chocolate wedding cake, the bride and groom thank their guests with chocolate wedding favors and, the pièce de résistance, a chocolate fountain for dipping!
Let’s talk about the creative ways you can present chocolate at your wedding celebration.
At the head table, where the bride and groom and attendants usually sit, place a vase of chocolate roses and present them as gifts to those special people in your lives.
Instead of napkins with the name of the happy couple, make personalized chocolate candy bar wrappers. Wouldn’t you rather have your guests eat a memento of your special day and not wipe their mouth with one?
Chocolate covered strawberries, one dressed in a tuxedo and one in a wedding dress, would “wow” any crowd.
Sometimes I imagine going back in time and adding more chocolate to my wedding day. For starters, I would switch out the overly sweet, fluffy white frosting on the wedding cake (much to the groom’s dismay) and wrap it in a rich, dark chocolate fondant. Then I would arrange for sharply dressed wait-staff to walk around with platters of chocolate hors d'oeuvres that include hand-rolled truffles and assorted chocolates.
Good thing my children like chocolate. Maybe I could help them with their chocolate wedding fantasies!
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