Chocolate Wedding Favors

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When having a fall wedding, there are generally two different routes that you can explore – having a rustic and traditional event or throwing a modern and glamorous affair. One is not better than the other and both can provide wonderful atmospheres for any wedding. By simply laying the perfect touches and taking care of every detail, your wedding, whether it be rustic or glamorous, is sure to be an event that you and your guests will still be talking about on your 50th anniversary!

Rustic weddings generally consist of things such as pumpkins, gourds, and sheaths of wheat or corn for display. These decoration items play perfectly against a color scheme of bright yellows, deep reds, and oranges. Browns are also very popular in fall color schemes, but they should always be paired with a lighter color such as a pale gold to help offset the dark colors. Fall flowers such as daisies, sunflowers, chrysanthemums, and baby’s breath will all look beautiful in bridal bouquets while items such as fall leaves can be used as centerpieces. A rustic fall wedding will generally contain a very hearty dinner course, such as roast beef, turkey, or pork loin. For a very rustic feel, serve the feast family-style with huge bowls of food covering the tables and everyone helping themselves. The easiest thing about planning this type of wedding is that the palette of colors and tastes that the season provides make every aspect of wedding planning easier!

However, just because your wedding is in the fall doesn’t mean that you need to surround yourself with pumpkins, yellows, and other aspects of the season. Generally, a modern fall wedding is a more sophisticated and formal affair. Color schemes for these type of weddings may include silvers, blues, and purples. A wonderful way to still incorporate traditional colors, such as brown, is to pair them with a cool pastel color, such as pink or blue. Flowers for glamorous fall weddings generally include flowers with a sophisticated look, such as roses or lilies and these can be used for bridal bouquets and centerpieces. A menu offering things such as salmon, duck, or prime rib can help to bring a formal affair altogether and make it a glamorous evening no one will soon forget!

Whether you decide on a rustic or glamorous theme for your fall wedding, it’s important to consider the theme in every detail and use your imagination to let the theme shine through!

The colors of autumn are all beautiful, the oranges, golds, reds, and browns, –all a rich tapestry, and chocolate is just one of the great ways to accentuate a fall cake. Your wedding cake does not have to be white! Unless you’re insisting on the same old white cake that everyone else is having, it’s time to break out of the traditional, and into the original. Consider some of these ideas for your fall wedding cake.

1. Incorporating The Fall Colors Into Your Cake - Fall colors are gorgeous, –but bringing them into your food might seem like a trial and error task. Trust me, it’s possible. You can bring fruits in, for reds, berries, apples, crumbles of chocolate, tiny pumpkins, orange peel spirals, dried apricots, and a number of other healthy, and beautiful pieces of edible autumn cake decorations.

2. Decorate With Some Of Our Fine Handmade Chocolates - You can add some of our delicious handmade chocolates to your cake, for a burst of dark or milk chocolate favor. If you prefer not to add extra sugar, then our sugar free, all-chocolate candies are perfect as well. Or you can decorate the cake with personalized chocolate lollipops, dipped oreos, or chocolate cookies; each painted with your photos, clip art, and personal messages.

3. Orange Cakes With Chocolate Frosting - Vanilla is completely over rated; why not get into the season? For your wedding cake, use chocolate frosting intead, with orange, red, golden yellow, or burgundy ripples. For the cake, choose golden lemon, with a cherry swirl; delicious orange with strawberry. For a more seasonal approach, try pumpkin spice cake, with cinnamon sprinkled white frosting; or a nutty carrot cake, with mocha and vanilla ripple frosting.

4. Fall Foliage In Your Cake - The bright colors of autumn foliage are so beautiful, and it’s hard not to want to just stick them all over your wedding cake. Talk to the bakery handling your cake, and ask for edible sugar fall leaf decorations, –frosting leaves are bulky, and prone to collapse, as well as careful dissection before the guests eat them.

5. Go Gold! - If all else fails, gold is still a fall color, and it looks beautiful in a cake. Edible gold leaf it gorgeous, and it can be used to decorate easily. Try ivy patterns, or cornucopia style designs, for a beautiful and priceless cake for your special day.

There are about a million great ideas floating around out there that incorporate the beautiful tapestry of autumn into carefully selected wedding favors that show all your guests how great it was for them to be there on your big day. Or, on your daughter’s, or bride’s big day, –depending on who’s doing the wedding planning, and design. Chocolate Dreams and Wishes wants to help you pore over our selection, and come up with some great ideas on your own; that way we can pour our hand-crafted atmosphere of chocolate celebration over your ceremony or reception.

1. Chocolate Wine Bottles - These are absolutely adorable. The chocolate is made by hand at Chocolate Dreams and Wishes, and then molded in a little wine bottle shape, painted with your own customized label, and with 24-carat gold leaf. They come wrapped in clear cellophane, and tied off with a little white ribbon.

2. Customized Chocolate Covered Oreos - The only thing more delicious than an Oreo, is a chocolate covered Oreo, –and not to mention a heavenly sweet way to give your guests something to remember you by. Each orea is dipped in your choice of white, dark, or milk chocolate, before adding your wedding photo, or clip art, and your message. Then each of these adorable little creations are settled into their own gold foil box, covered with a clear lid, and wrapped with a little gold bow for extra aesthetic.

3. Edible Photo Cookies! - Delicious chocolate cookies that can be customized fully with your message, your photos or clip art, and even different colors of sprinkles to match your wedding colors. These delectable favors come in dark, white, and milk chocolate cookies. They’re each wrapped in clear cellophane, and tied off with a white ribbon bow.

4. His & Hers Wedding Favors - These are chocolate menus, or greeting cards for favors, –for the guys, choose the tuxedo border, and for the girls, choose a theme that matches your wedding invitations. They come in dark, white, or milk chocolate, and are each settled in their own gold boxes, with clear plastic tops, and gold ribbon bows on top.

5. Customized Chocolate Candy Bar Favors - So many companies offer personalized candy bar wrappers, that there’s really no way to make it original anymore, –but we have found a way! We don’t put your art, photos, or message on the wrapper! We put it directly onto the chocolate! The bars make great edible memories, plus, they come in milk, white, and dark chocolate, –flavors of favors to suit any connoisseur of fine, handmade chocolates.

6. Personalized Chocolate Greeting Cards - This little cards pack delicious taste, handmade delicacy, personal message, photos, and greeting, all into a five inches of fine dark, white or milk chocolate. They’re so pretty, you might have to talk your guests into eating them!

7. Pittsburg Wedding Favors! - If you’re planning a wedding in Pittsburg, or have Pittsburg Pride, Chocolate Dreams and Wishes has a fine selection of chocolate lollipops, bar chocolate, and even chocolate greeting cards with beautiful photos of the city on them.

Sugar Free

8. Sugar Free Dark (Or Milk) Chocolate Mint Cups - When you’re going with candy for your wedding favors, you have to remember that not everyone is great with sugar, –whether it’s because of diabetes or dieting. Your health conscious guests will love these delicious little minty dark or milk chocolate cups. Place them to the side of your wedding favors that have sugar, with a “Sugar Free” place card in front, as a sweet and healthy option. The mint ripple is white, so it’s perfect for weddings. You can also get them wrapped, or have them wrapped, to match the other favors.

9. Sugar Free Dark (Or Milk) Chocolate Raspberry Cups - These are another sugar-free chocolate treasure worth mentioning. The raspberry cups aren’t just pretty to look at, –they’re also delicious, healthy, and contain a perfect amount of real raspberries.

Check out the Chocolate Dreams and Wishes Website for the Nutrition Facts.