Chocolate Wedding Theme – For Wow factor
Chocolate Themed wedding
The perfect way to ensure that your wedding will be a memorable one is to include a chocolate theme with a chocolate fountain.
If you are having a french wedding you will have a fabulous choice of amazing chocolate desserts by expereienced chocolatiers. The french love chocolate.
Chocolate fountains are all the rage at weddings. A chocolate fountain is a great conversation piece and a delight to all of the senses. 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. Then wedding favors with chocolates came next and eventually paved the path for modern wedding cakes to be designed and baked in new ways. 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. You can choose from a lot of chocolate shades and you even have an option to have a chocolate theme mixed with cream, mint or strawberry. 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.
Many wedding sites and planning guides offer ideas for brides to decorate in this gorgeous color scheme.
Award winning bridalwear designer Ian Stuart has created a rather unique chocolate wedding dress to celebrate Chocolate week 2008 along with chocolatiers Rococo.
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”. The creators both agree that the dress should only be worn for a short while.
Ian Stuart describes his latest tasty creation, “I believe I have created a wedding dress design in conjunction with the best chocolatiers in London. “
“It is so nice to make something that is a challenge, and furthermore, who knows? We may start a new trend!! ….as the credit crunch looms over us, maybe edible wedding dresses are the future!” says Ian.
• 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.
• You can ask a caterer to come up with a menu of food recipes with chocolates. 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. Choose a chocolate fountain caterer using real chocolate preferrably chocolate with more than 70% cocoa solids. 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. Ensure the design, colour and overall outcomes of your wedding accessories embrace the chocolate theme too.
Favors are easier to plan about because there are a lot of chocolate-inspired wedding favors to choose from. Chocolate truffles or Belgian chocolates are always a delicious choice and come in a wide variety of flavors and styles.
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. Almost everyone can appreciate fine chocolate treats and those who do not usually have a reason, such as a food allergy, that the couple will be aware of and able to substitute something else for those individuals.
Chocolate wedding cakes are nothing like traditional wedding cakes. Traditional wedding cakes have always had white icing on the outside, and usually filled with a traditional white or ‘fruitcake’ recipe. Chocolate wedding favors are always a lovely addition to the reception tables. 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.
Chocolate has always been associated with love, and what better way to celebrate one of the most memorable days of your life than with chocolate, the food of love.
A french wedding is a great opportunity to showcase a chocolate wedding theme.