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Chapter 17 – Homemade Chocolate Ideas for Weddings and Wedding Showers



You might not have thought about using homemade chocolates as wedding or wedding shower favors but homemade chocolates fit in perfectly at weddings and wedding showers.  Homemade chocolate wedding favors are also a great way for the bride and groom to save some money because homemade wedding favors will cost a lot less than commercial ones. 

At a wedding you give you favors to your friends and family to thank them for coming to celebrate the wedding with you. Since homemade chocolates are a very personal and individual gift they are the perfect “thank you” for friends and family.  There are hundreds of ways that you can incorporate homemade chocolates into your wedding but here are just a few of the most popular ways that people use homemade chocolates as wedding favors:

  • Get some plastic champagne glasses and fill them with individually wrapped homemade chocolates.  Place a square of tulle over the top and tie the tulle down with a ribbon so that the chocolates don’t fall out. Place one at each guest’s seat.

  • Chocolate boxes made in the shape of a heart with the bride and groom’s names and the date carved into them are elegant party favors that are a big hit with guests. If you want to make them even more personal carve each guest’s name into a chocolate box, just make sure that you give the right box to the right guest!

  • Bottles of chocolate dipping sauce labeled with the bride and groom’s name and the dates and a kitchy name are fun wedding favors.

  • Give your guests packets of special hot chocolate and two mugs in a basket with a book of love poems and instructions for them to sit and read the book together over a cup of special homemade hot chocolate.

  • Make a centerpiece of homemade chocolate roses on sticks that are decorated to look like stems and have each guest take one of the chocolate roses home with them at the end of the night.

  • In the kid’s area set up a station where kids can make their own chocolate to keep them occupied. Just make that they are supervised and that aprons are available to protect their nice clothes.

  • Have a chocolate fountain flowing with a special “signature” chocolate flavor and have plenty of strawberries and other fresh fruit available for dipping.

  • A great wedding favor is to package a few homemade chocolates with a small, handwritten recipe book full of great recipes for homemade chocolates. Give the recipes fun names like “Spice up your marriage Spicy Hot Chocolate”. 

Homemade Chocolate Ideas for Wedding Showers

Homemade chocolates are the perfect party favors for wedding showers. Most women love chocolate, and love handmade things, so giving your friends and family some special chocolates made just for them as a way of saying “thank you” to them for coming to celebrate your impending marriage is a lovely way to let them know you appreciate them.  Here are some fun ideas that you can use to make handmade chocolate wedding shower favors for your friends and family:


  • If you are having an “adult” wedding shower then some homemade chocolates in adult shapes are a lot of fun and a great conversation piece.

  • One of the most popular wedding shower favors is a small box of homemade truffles or other fancy chocolates tied with a bow. Usually the box and ribbon are in the bride’s wedding colors.  If you want to make the favors extra special take a moment to write a personal message on each box. 

  • Chocolate boxes are also fun for wedding showers, especially when they are filled with other small gifts.

  • Small chocolate bars imprinted with the bride’s name or a cute saying and wrapped in individualized packaging are inexpensive and cute wedding shower favors if you have a lot of guests attending the shower.

  • Since there are lots of women that watch their weight very carefully a low calorie chocolate dipping sauce and some fresh fruit is a nice alternative dessert at a wedding shower for women that don’t want to indulge in cake or other high calorie desserts.

  • A handmade chocolate dipping sauce in a personalized bottle makes a nice wedding shower favor.  Make sure that you have a few sugar free bottles for anyone that needs to have sugar free chocolate.

  • You can also serve a “cake” made up entirely of small boxes of individual homemade chocolates and decorated with ribbons in the bride’s colors.  Arrange the boxes on a cake platter to look like a layer cake and you’ll have a beautiful alternative to a high calorie cake that is already portioned out.

  • If you want to celebrate your friendship with the friends and family who have attended the shower a nice party favor is a special mug that contains a packet of homemade hot chocolate mix and a coupon for one afternoon chat with you where you can share the hot chocolate.

Need a special wedding shower favor for your maid of honor? Pack a gift basket full of homemade chocolates, chocolate covered popcorn, two DVDs of movies that you always watch together and a cozy throw blanket so that the two of you can get together, watch movies, and share some homemade chocolates before you get married.
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