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May 20, 2005

Chocolate Fountains: A Catering Necessity

Shane and I have been discussing the catering of our wedding reception. So far, we have made several decisions. Decisions are great! Finally, decisions!

The Cake

We've decided that the cake will be catered by a Santa Cruz bakery called The Buttery. This was also the bakery used in Shane's father's wedding, and so you could almost call this a new Conder tradition. We haven't yet decided on the filling(s) but it will likely be decorated in the wedding colors of orange and green. I'm currently leaning towards Italian Rum as at least one of the fillings, although we may also include the hazelnut buttercream as one of the tiers. Note the only decision made is which bakery. I am hoping we can go samples some of the fillings before we make our final decisions on content.

The Food

So we've decided that the reception will be a rather informal affair food-wise. We will be having some dishes catered, and others we will be doing ourselves. We have decided to serve "our favorites". It will not be an elegant well-assembled combination of flavors for palate pleasure. Instead it will be more of a choose-your-own-adventure. Shane and I have already selected the dishes we wish to serve, but we don't want to give away anything, so I'm not going to tell you any of the details here really. I will say, though, it will not include any foods we dislike - for example, shockingly, "a mess of eggs" will not be appearing on the menu. Also, Dad, there is a grange in Norwich, Vermont.

Where's The Chocolate?

When Shane and I attended a conference last year, they had this really cool catering job with chocolate fountains. Basically, you serve lots of chocolate-dippables like strawberries and rice crispie treats and pretzels and such, and you rent yourself a chocolate fountain. It looks like a champagne fountain from a classic film, only it oozes chocolately goodness instead. The lucky attendees use fondue forks to spear the goodies and then swipe them under the river of chocolate. Shane insists on having one, and I heartily agree. When are we going to have another opportunity to justify such decadence? Thus we will likely be using San Jose Chocolate Fountains to help cater dessert!

Posted by sorsha at May 20, 2005 11:13 PM