Fondue For Weddings

Your wedding day is one of the most special, memorable days of your life. The last thing you want to be doing is worrying about the food. In this way, fondue presents a great option as a dinner thats simple, fun for guests, and delicious.

Not to mention, fondue can create quite the presentation for your special night. Many couples choose to have a large chocolate waterfall with a selection of desserts available for dipping. Others might choose to instead focus on dinner and offer a heated oil for cooking meats in. Still others might choose to do a combination of more than one style of fondue.

A popular new idea is having a large chocolate fountain on a table set up with fruit and other dipping items and also having a bowl of cheese fondue on each table for the guests to eat from as well.

This unique combination of both dinner and dessert fondue makes for a simplified way of serving family and friends at your wedding while also being less expensive than offering a full dinner course and following it up with dessert. It’s also a great way to encourage guests to interact with each other which is more fun for everyone. It also allows guests that might have specific diets or eating habits to have a few more options than if you were to serve a set dinner or dessert menu.

Another fun idea is to have a chocolate fondue fountain with white chocolate or with chocolate that has been colored to match your wedding colors. You can also select foods for dipping that coordinate well with your wedding colors if you choose to. Not only does this provide an interesting topic of conversation it also helps to bring the food into sync with the rest of the wedding.

If you do choose to include fondue as a main part of the meal at your wedding there are a couple points to remember.

First of all, fondue can at times be a messy food. If you’re planning on having a lot of children at the wedding fondue may not be the best route to go. Most parents wont appreciate having their children come home in their nice clothes covered in chocolate or cheese.

Another point to remember is that this is a wedding and the bride does wear white. A dark chocolate fondue stain would certainly ruin a white dress if you aren’t careful.

Also if you decide to have individual pots of fondue on each guest table they do require frequent stirring to avoid setting up which is something the catering staff would need to be aware of.

Overall there are very few drawbacks to having fondue as the main choice of food at your wedding that can’t easily be solved with a little advance preparation. Parents can help their children at the fondue table, the staff can ensure that the fondue stays fresh, and a bridesmaid or groomsman can prepare a plate for the happy couple thus allowing them to stay away from any potentially messy food areas. There are a lot of different options for making fondue a part of your wedding so get creative and have fun with it!