Chocolate Themed wedding
If you’re planning a wedding, especially in the winter months, why not decorate your wedding reception with a chocolate theme?
If you are having a french wedding you will have a fabulous choice of amazing chocolate desserts by expereienced chocolatiers. The french love chocolate.
The great thing about a chocolate wedding theme is that it encompasses colour and taste and smell.
Chocolate fountains are all the rage at weddings. A chocolate fountain is, as you probably expect, a fountain that flows with chocolate. Before you get all excited about your chocolate theme and chocolate fountain check that your wedding venue allows them. Because of health and safety considerations lots of venues have not prohibited them. You can have one at our french wedding castle venue.
At first, the chocolate touch could only be tasted through the desserts excluding the wedding cake which was still traditionally white. Many of these cakes were fashioned into different shapes, designs, and flavor, including chocolate. Chocolate wedding cakes eventually became an instant “alternative” hit. If you are having a french wedding you can select a croquembouche filled with chocolate custard as one of your chocolate deserts.
Chocolate is synonymous with romance.
The whole wedding can be chocolate-inspired. Chocolate-themed weddings will be fun and delectably inspiring without tainting the solemnity of your wedding vows.
Things to consider are:
• The wedding clothes that you, your spouse-to-be and entourage will be wearing. This includes the color that should follow the chocolate theme. It is possible to have your entourage wear deep or bright chocolate colors. The hot color scheme seems to be blue and chocolate. Some called it Tiffany Blue, others teal and even more referred to robin’s egg blue. Any way you cut it, the trend is definitely in.
We often browse the web for ideas, and the color scheme of chocolate and blue has hit mainstream.
If you’re looking for a different twist on your wedding day, perhaps this story may be for you.
Ian Stuart, the winner of Best Bridal designer 2004-2007 created an amazing looking wedding dress is made of white chocolate, and described as “cute, burlesque, contemporary, fashionable and 1950’s” – We describe it as “Tasty looking, with potential to melt, leaving a semi naked bride on a hot summer’s day”. Now that is one way to make a statement on your wedding day.
Ian Stuart describes his latest tasty creation, “I believe I have created a wedding dress design in conjunction with the best chocolatiers in London. “
Technically brilliant, the dress looks fantastic, and being created by two parties at the pinnacle of their games, makes it a fascinating achievment.
• The design and color of flowers for your bouquet and decorations in the wedding venue and reception. You’ll have to find a flower shop or a flower shop that has chocolate colored flowers such as the delphiniums kissed by chocolate, hemerocallis Ed Murray, lilium asiatic landini, and the penumbra, Sherry Baby (Chocolate Orchid), black barlows, chocolate cosmos, dahlia-chocolate sundae, dahlia karma chocolate , among many others.
• It is easy to incorporate chocolate into all of your menu. You can consider foie gras with dark chocoalate, duck with chocolate sauce, chocolate-dusted scallops with vanilla butter sauce, chicken mole (chicken recipe with chocolate sauce), seared pork tenderloin with cocoa spice rub, and grilled New York strip with chocolate merlot sauce, among many others.
Without question you need a chocolate wedding cake or for a french twist a croquembouche filled with chocolate custard.
• A chocolate fountain will definitely be a hit for your chocolate-themed wedding. There are also a great variety of premium imported chocolates available, oftentimes available in most chocolate varieties. There are a variety of styles to choose from for your chocolate fountain.
• Chocolate Coloured Decorations – Because brown coordinates so perfectly with many colors—pink, turquoise, melon, lavender—it’s a great color to work with the chocolate theme for your wedding reception. Chocolate and tiffany blue is very popular right now.
• One of the last things to consider can be the wedding accessories, decor, and favors. Make sure that the design, color, and overall outcome of these items will follow your chocolate theme.
Favors are easier to plan about because there are a lot of chocolate-inspired wedding favors to choose from. These include chocolate bars decorated with wedding themes such as those available from Hersheys line of chocolate wedding favors.
Chocolate wedding favors are a great option. They can be eaten or saved as desired, and almost everyone is at least marginally fond of chocolate. Chocolate wedding favors can be different items, including cookies, cakes, sweet chocolate candies, or even hot cocoa packets.
Chocolate wedding cakes make great desserts that you can either serve on their own or with fresh fruit and cream. You can choose a chocolate cake, which is decorated in fondant for a traditional feel, or for chocoholics, have it decorated with a choice of milk, white or dark chocolate. Chocolate wedding favors have been used by traditional weddings to thank and appreciate guest’s support. This idea started with upper class people, who are wealthy enough to have elegant gifts to give for their guests.
Planning for a gourmet chocolate themed wedding will be fun and experiencing it will be quite exciting and a different experience which will definitely be the talk of the town and a great memory to share with your future children and grandchildren.
A french wedding is a great opportunity to showcase a chocolate wedding theme.