Chris and I love chocolate, especially truffles and hot chocolate! There have been so many chocolate related memories intertwined in our relationship: a romantic email about hot chocolate in the autumn, sipping homemade hot chocolate by a fire on a cold December night, making chocolate covered strawberries at Thanksgiving, handmaking truffles for Valentine's Day, sipping the best hot chocolate in the world in Brugge, Belgium, and the list goes on and on...I thought this would be a great favor for our wedding -- to share with our guests not only the deep love that we share for one another, but our love of all things chocolate. Now to my dilemma, should the favors be chocolates or truffles?Favors are not a big line item on our budget -- about $100 maximum. I want them to be special, tasty, and not break the bank. My first idea was individually wrapped pieces of Cote d' Or chocolate from Belgium. When we traveled to Belgium last year, we visited the chocolate filled city of Brugge. We visited many chocolate shops and had the best cup of hot chocolate ever at Bar Chocolate (the menu boasted 300 different flavors of hot chocolate!). Cote d' Or is to Belgium as Hershey's is to the United States, except 100 times better. I also have a scrumptious homemade hot chocolate recipe, which uses vanilla bean, that I made for Chris on our first Christmas together. So, I was going to buy a 12 box case of 24 individually wrapped Cote d' Or "Lait" Mignonettes from World Wide Chocolate. Each guest would get three pieces with the hot chocolate recipe and the story of why it's important to us; however, the cost breaks my budget. The case is $99.00 alone. Now, add on "hot weather" shipping for $5.99 and the 2nd day air shipping of $32.95, which is required to ship to Colorado, and the cost becomes unjustifiable.
Idea number two: Truffles. I love to cook and Chris loves to eat, so I thought why not personalize the favors and make truffles. I have a pretty good truffle recipe that I made for Chris on our first Valentine's Day, why not make truffles. Most of the ingredients I have in my kitchen, my only concern is time and space. Truffles are a time intensive desert, and I don't know if I have enough space in my fridge to make the almost 300 of them. I also have this nightmare that they will melt in the hour and half drive to Breckenridge. Although, these handmade delicacies would add a very personal and handmade touch to the wedding. Plus, the favors (whatever is chosen) will double as escort cards!Let’s take a vote! What favor would you prefer, chocolate or truffles?
3 comments:
Okay, without even taking into consideration my preference between chocolate or truffles I would vote for the chocolate/hot chocolate idea. I think it's cute and personal and also I can't imagine you trying to make all those truffles right before the wedding with all the other stuff you have going on. As I'm sure you've figured out, the more you can get done now the better. So unless you have a place to freeze/store truffles you make in advance, I would vote for chocolate.
I'm all about the chocolate/hot chocolate idea, too...I think you'll already be pretty stressed out...Why bring more stress? PLUS...It's more personal and brings a special story to the mix.
I agree that making truffles right before your wedding sounds like a disaster in the making. Is there a good quality American (or domestically available Belgian) chocolate that you could use to go with hot chocolate but not go over budget? Maybe something local in Denver?
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