Many congratulations to Carine & Tim who held their reception at The Manor House Hotel, Moreton-in-Marsh.

There was a lovely mix of nationalities and Ed got to try out some of his French with some of the guests.

We took along our 44" fountain, decorated in purple, lilac and ivory and finished it off with a couple of ice kebab stations.

Wow, what a busy weekend! 

Congratulations to Michelle and Mark on their recent wedding.  They married at the very romantic, Gretna Green and held an evening reception on Friday at The Eaton Hotel in Birmingham for all their family and friends.  We provided a 44" fountain decorated using a black and silver colour scheme.  We had lots of little helpers on hand, who took a real liking to our catering gloves!

Congratulations to Matt and Lesley on their wedding day on Saturday.  Matt and Lesley held their reception at The Chase Hotel in Ross-on-Wye and Lesley organised a surprise firework display for her new husband.  Eddy and Ben loved the BBQ! I'm just sorry I could come along as I was preparing for our next wedding the following day.  Eddy took along a 44" fountain and decorated this with wine satin, orchids and wine roses and petals. 

Congratulations to Claire and Antony who held their reception on Sunday at Ettington Park Hotel, Stratford upon Avon.  Claire's wedding planner (Lara at Foxtail Lily Weddings) contacted us to provide a 44" chocolate fountain.  The theme this time was chocolate brown and cream and we decorated the surround with chocolate gerberas, organza and cream roses.   

Here are a few photo's from this weekend's events:

Saturday saw us at Damon's 40th Birthday Party held at Crowle Village Hall.  Damon's wife Jot booked us to provide a 44" Chocolate Fountain and Fruit Palm Tree.

Another great party....and a first for us being entertained by a very talented belly dancer Mystique J!  Groove Asia provided the disco, I think this was the third time we've been at the same event now and they are really very, very good and got everyone up dancing.  We must also mention Jonathon of www.barfliesbars.co.uk who provided an excellently stocked bar.

It's really great to see two cultures coming together and having an absolutely fantastic time.  Unfortunately I didn't get the name of the caterers, which is a shame, as they were excellent too - so my apologies (I hate to admit it, but I was too busy eating) ;-)

Thanks to Jot and Damon for providing us with a lovely meal and being such great people.  A Sunday lunch is definitely not needed today....but the diet will start tomorrow, maybe....

Today we exhibited at the 2nd Worcestershire County Cricket Club Wedding Fayre...

Rather than taking ice as we did last year, we decided to display our Candy Buffet table, the Whopper Fountain (53" Chocolate fountain) and our medium fruit palm tree.  Eddy isn't just 5ft tall, "the Whopper" really is that big!  (Eddy is in fact 5ft 10")....it's a bit of a monster fountain!!!

We had such a fantastic day and didn't stop from the time we arrived until it was time to pack up.  Thanks to everyone who paid us a visit and sampled our sweets, chocolate and fruit palm.  Thanks also for all the lovely comments on our displays - it's days like this that really makes it all so worthwhile!  

I was really pleased to meet Vicky and Leanne whose weddings we will be doing in the future, also to Chris who paid a deposit on the spot (nice one Chris)!

I would just like to mention, that we do not use oil in our fountains as suggested by a competitor today and at which we felt quite insulted.  We use the finest Belgian coverture chocolate, which is high in cocoa butter and so oil isn't necessary at all.

Thanks again to Jodi and Nicci for a fabulous event - here's to next year!

Many congratulations to Sam and Peter who held their reception at the wonderful Forest of Arden Hotel in Coventry.  Sam chose our largest 5.5ft fruit palm to welcome her guests and followed this later with a 44" fountain and kebab ice stations.

A special mention to the band Wild Clover, who did a great job and also many thanks to Gary at the Forest of Arden, who was so helpful.

Another great wedding...

Congratulations to Debbie & Alan, who jetted off to Florida for their vows and came back to a great party for family and friends, which they held at the Tally Ho Police Training Centre/Sports and Social Club in Birmingham.

Debbie ordered our 36" fountain, mainly for the children.....by the end of the night there seemed to be a lot of children over the age of 30 all tucking in, which was great!  Many thanks to the staff at Tally Ho who were really accommodating to us (and their food was brilliant)!!

Here's a few of the chocolate faces which we captured...priceless!

Alix and Adam held their wedding reception at the very grand Dumbleton Hall in Worcestershire. 

Alix looked very much the pretty woman in her most beautiful wedding dress and the guys scrubbed up pretty well too!

We originally met Alix last year at a 40th Birthday party that we did for her friend Ester .... (Ester made Eddy's whole year with her fantastic "stud muffin" testimonial - he's still living off that one)!

Another great wedding, lovely venue and a fantastic group of guests.  Special thanks to Alix's baby brother who looked after us so well too and it was great to see Ester again!

Fruity rum punch, jerk chicken, rice and peas, tropical fruit palm tree, limbo dancing and enormous helium pineapples....welcome to Nicci's Birthday party held in the marquee at Worcestershire County Cricket Club.

Nicci pulled out all the stops for her birthday party on Saturday (well, after all she is the conference and events co-ordinator at the WCCC, so no pressure there then)!

What a day (and night)!  We took along our champagne fountain, a fruit palm tree and 44" chocolate fountain.  We had so much fun putting this together.  Both me and Eddy were decked out in loud Caribbean shirts, the chocolate fountain was dressed with a shiny palm tree topper, orange rose petals, organza and flower garlands...

Also at the party were Steve from Midlands Leisure, taking photo's of the guests in their tropical finery and had set up a screen show of photo's of Nicci for the past.....so many years, another Steve from Backstage Promotions who ran an amazing disco (and competitions) and of course Steve from the WCCC managing his catering staff (and giving Nicci a night off).

A big well done Nic who pulled off one hell of a party and who looked absolutely stunning.  We loved everything minute!

We had a big wedding on Saturday for Clare & Mark who held their reception at The Coppertops in Worcester.

Clare had decided on a theme of gold and ivory and we provided a beautiful ice column with gold butterflies inside, so it looked as if they were fluttering up inside the column.  We also took along a 4ft chocolate fountain with a selection of 10 dips and topped it off with a traditional Bride & Groom topper.  Despite the weather being so warm, the ice column lasted from 3pm and was still going strong at 11.30pm when we left...there were a few little girls waiting to pull out the butterflies, so I hope someone got one in the end!

The day was made extra special as Clare is my cousin's daughter, so it was a real honour to do something special for the family.  I had a great time having a boogie with my Aunty Arlene who I hadn't seen for a long time - another perfect day!

Congratulations to Caroline and Grant who held their reception in the Walnut Suite at Coombe Abbey in Coventry.

I must admit that we did have particular fun planning for this wedding as we were asked to following a Scottish theme.  We found a fabulous fountain topper (being a glass thistle) which we placed on top the fountain.  We did spend a couple of weekends looking for wild thistles for the displays, but must admit, English thistles are not as impressive as Scottish!

Thanks to Wayne and his team at Coombe Abbey for being such a great help.  Looking forward to seeing you again soon!

We're now well into our wedding season, and loving it!

Many congratulations to Clare and Simon!  They had picked a lilac and purple colour scheme which was absolutely lovely.  The reception was held at the Worcestershire County Cricket Club.  What an absolutely beautiful day for a wedding.  It was such a humid night, but all the doors were open in the Graeme Hick pavillion, with a backdrop of a lit Worcester Cathedral at night.  It really is a stunning venue.

Thanks as ever to Nicci and the staff at WCCC for being so helpful (and a great bunch of people too).

A double congratulations to Mary on her Birthday and her wedding day!  Mary's guests arrived at Gaudet Luce Golf Club to celebrate her birthday and left celebrating her wedding too!  Another wonderful evening and fab party.

Thanks to the staff at Gaudet Luce Golf Club for all their help, and if you wondered what happens to the chocolate and dips after the event, here's a clue....

I had to make a special mention for Simon of www.mobilebarforhire.com.  These guys were great!  They had such a large selection of real ales, spirits and wine, we were really impressed.  The highlight for me was Simon's special cocktail...this packed a punch!  All I can say is that I'm so relieved to have tried it at the end of the evening - I slept sooo well!!  A mix of four spirits and three mixers - it's worth hiring them just for this!  Gorgeous!!

Last night saw us at Sally & Will's wedding.  This had the real wow factor!

Sally & Will held their reception in a barn at Netherton.  3 months ago they were lambing in here and last night the transformation was magical.  Special machinery had been hired in to clear the barn, all the walls were painted and then the decoration started.  Sally had made a gorgeous willow/hazel arch entrance to the barn, covered in fairy lights and organza.  There were masses of hanging baskets and pots of lavender and colour co-ordinated flowers.  Every beam inside had fairylights painstakingly attached so the roof lit up in the evening.  Add balloons and balloon arches - and wow! 

Supper was a fabulous hog roast then add a mobile bar www.mobilebarforhire.com , a disco and topped off by our chocolate fountain.  What a night!

Special thanks to Claire for the booking and well done to the family in pulling together to make a truly memorable wedding day. 

Wroxhall Abbey was the venue for Warwick Medical School's Graduation Ball, set in an impressive marquee alonside the Chapel on the Wroxhall Abbey Estate.

Guests entered the marquee through an enormous balloon arch, to collect their glass of Pimms, served from our Champagne Fountain.  Sat alongside the fountain was a lotus ice sculpture filled ripe, chilled strawberries.

We took along our 44" chocolate fountain and 5.5ft Giant Fruit Palm tree.  To accompany the fruits on the palm tree we provided a sharp raspberry coulis and a sticky toffee sauce (which by the way is fab on profiteroles)!

The organising committee really did a great job in providing a great live band, disco, fireworks, garden jenga and to Wii Fit screens.  It was definitely a fantastic way to celebrate a well deserved graduation!

Thanks to Angela and the WMS Organising Committee - we thoroughly enjoyed the Ball and met some great people.  Also thanks to the staff at Wroxhall Abbey who were extremely helpful to us.

Check out the gallery to see our Chocolate Doctors in action!

Congratulations to Smeena & Imran.

Sunday saw us off to Asha's Restaurant, Birmingham to provide a fountain for Smeena & Imran's wedding reception.  We arranged for the happy couple to turn on their fountain.  We followed a deep red colour theme and decorated the fountain surround with maroon orchids, sweet williams and finished the fountain off with a topper decorated with deep red grass, maraboo feathers and organza.

Thanks to Sam and Imran for booking us and also to the staff at Asha's (especially for the most wonderful take away they provided for us with their compliments).  Asha's is a wonderful contemporary restaurant which now boasts its own civil licence.  If you're in the area and love Indian cuisine, it's a must (and absolutely delicious)!  

Congratulations to Lisa and Jordan!

For Lisa and Jordan's special day, we supplied a heart cluster ice sculpture together with two ice buckets, decorated to match their colour scheme of black, purple and blue.  They chose to hold their wedding breakfast at Jephson Gardens in The Restaurant in the Park, Leamington Spa. 

The restaurant sits in the park alongside the river and takes full advantage of its position with ceiling to floor glass windows - a really lovely venue.

We are relieved to say that we have managed to find another van to join our small but expanding fleet. 

We have kept the last two weekends free to find an additional vehicle and do all the things necessary to bring it up to scratch to transport our fountains and palm trees.  Thankfully, it's all gone like clockwork and the only thing left to do now is the signwriting.  We will have to attack this after the wedding season as we've now simply run out of time and have very few spare weekends left until November.  

If anyone knows of a good vehicle graphics company around the Worcester area then please email tania@fantasticchocolatefountains.co.uk with the details!

After a long, cold winter I was most relieved to see that the UK's first strawberries are starting to hit the shelves.  Not that there's anything wrong with imported strawberries of course, it's just that we like to support local growers wherever possible (plus we know just how fresh they will be)!    Everything in the garden seems to be around 3 weeks late in sprouting this year! 

Yesterday saw us at Romy & Geoff's Wedding, which took place at The LeftBank in Hereford.  This venue is sat next to the River Wye with several floors and glass balconies which overlook the river; on the hottest day of the year so far, it was absolutely beautiful.

Romy had chosen a chocolate and sage green colour scheme for her special day and I must say the colours really worked so well together and looked superb.  We took along our 44" medium fountain and decorated the display with chocolate brown and sage green gerbera, also using lots of greenery - we topped off the fountain with a brown feather and leaf display.  We also took a Lotus flower ice sculpture filled with strawberries, keeping them nicely chilled.

This was a lovely glamorous wedding, set by the river on a beautiful sunny day - what more could you want...

Happy 21st Birthday to Manoj Aman Jhagra (the handsome one in the centre)....

What a party!  It was an absolutely fantastic evening and we had so much fun doing this. With over 160 guests, this was definitely one party to remember.   The room at the Bia Lounge was beautifully decorated with turquoise chair sashes, oversized martini glass table centres filled with blue glass beads and the table arrangement was spot on.

We provided our 4ft fruit palm tree, which was covered with strawberries, grapes, galia and cantaloupe melon, kiwi and fresh pineapple and served with raspberry and mango coulis; also our medium 44" chocolate fountain, which we decorated in a turquoise theme and with a white feather topper; and finally two crystal clear ice cannons, again with a turquoise accent theme.

The Bia Lounge certainly looked after us very well and we had a gorgeous plate of pakora, samosa and dhal - big thanks to Akmal and his staff!  It was really delicious!

We were wondering whether to join Blue Peter as presenters at one point, as the children at the party have now given us 101 different ways using serviettes, paper plates and skewers - they were a great friendly bunch and really did make us laugh.

Also special thanks to Kamla for booking us for this party - we're so pleased you loved what we did for you and we will definitely see you again for your next 21st Birthday party!  It was a pleasure.

Well tomorrow we're off to a 21st Birthday in Small Heath.  We're taking along our 4ft fruit palm tree, 44" chocolate fountain and ice canons.

We've had this booking for a little while and have been really looking forward to doing this job.

Check back on Sunday for the photo's....they're going to be great!

We had a lovely time The Fownes Hotel, Worcester providing the 44" Chocolate Fountain, Swan Ice Sculpture and 2ft Sweetie Palm tree for Louisa and Simon's evening reception.  What a gorgeous day for a wedding.

Congratulations to Louisa and Simon, who are a really lovely couple and thanks to Tina (who is a complete star) for booking us.  Also thanks to Julie at Fownes for her great organisation.

Chocolate and cheese does tend to work together (mild cheddar is best). So far, everyone who has been brave enough to try has loved it.  So at a recent 50th Birthday, Ally decided to come up with a new twist .... the Ally kebab.

Not for the faint hearted, but we were amazed, it was actually quite nice in a very weird kind of way!!

You will need:

• Mild Cheddar cheese
• Grapes
• and, here's the killer, silver skin onions!
• warm Belgian chocolate 

Load up a kebab and pour over the warm chocolate.  I'm still puzzling over how this all actually works together, but give it a go - you may be pleasantly surprised!!

Thanks to Ally for this one!

If anyone has any recommendations for new dipping items or combinations, then let us know. We'd love to hear your ideas (and of course, we'd have to try it out for ourselves)!

We are absolutely delighted and very proud to announce that Worcester City Council Environmental Health Services has awarded us with 5 Stars (Excellent) in their Scores on the doors , Food Hygiene Rating system.

What a great time we had last night supporting the Worcester Breast Care Unit.  The event was superbly organized by Sarah Thompson and held at the Edgar Suite at Bowl Xtreme, Worcester.   Through Sarah's hard work, she managed to raise over £5,000 on the night, which was much more than I think anyone expected.  A big well done to her!

The event had it all from a lovely hot buffet meal, professional photographer, amazing dancers, disco, a compare from BBC Hereford and Worcester, fabulous live band (and not forgetting our 4ft Chocolate Fountain and Lotus ice sculpture).  Sarah had also organised a great raffle, with lots of fantastic prizes donated by local businesses and finishing with an exciting auction...Eddy won a voucher for £20 of beauty care services.  Mmm..I think he may need to donate that one to a more needy cause...me.

Our brand new fountain topper took it's first outing and made a great impact sat on top of the chocolate fountain.  We decorated this with cerise ostrich feathers to match the colours of the Breast Care Unit.  There so many things we can create for the topper using flowers, feathers or perhaps even a Bride & Groom, so it's going to make a great addition to our fountain displays.  So to all our forthcoming clients, your fountain has just grown and will be made that little bit more special for you.

I just wanted to thank the staff at Bowl Xtreme, who were really nice people and so helpful to us.  We hope to see you again, soon!

This is our first blog posting, keeping you updated on Fantastic Chocolate Fountains events, news and interesting information.

We are proud to introduce our Chocolate Fountain Topper.  This is an extension to the top of our chocolate fountains which extend its height using a whole range of different items, such as flowers, feathers, bride & groom etc.  Think of it as a topper to a wedding cake, but on a Chocolate Fountain! 

The topper is taking it's first outing this evening at a charity event we are attending for the Worcester Breast Care unit.  The topper will contain cerise pink ostrich feathers to tie in with the Charity's colour scheme, so check back tomorrow to see the photo's!  It's going to be impressive.

As far as we can tell, we are the second company in the UK using fountain toppers...so if you want to stand out from the crowd, give us a call!