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Many thanks for all your replies. Looks like all I need to do is persuade Malc now!!

In 2002 my son was 'Jake' from the Tweenies on an outdoor stage in Coventry, when the Christmas lights were switched on. We were invited to a VIP buffet at a hotel overlooking the stage. There was a choccie fountain, my daughter was 2 at the time and loved it. It put me off seeing people sticking strawberries into the chocolate, biting a bit off, then sticking it back in. Not so bad if its your own family, but these were strangers.

Wish we'd had one at our wedding. We're having one when we get our marriage blessed, in 2013. Dont know anything about them, tho.

We've got one and its great fun but you need LOADS of chocolate and you'd be amazed how much oil it needs to keep chocolate fluid enough

the horrible bit is cleaning it after
but it is worth it
love Bunny xx

Had one at my son's wedding and it seemed to go down well.

Yes, my son and DiL had one, and it was very popular......and my daughter and SiL tobe are having one at their wedding in December....

MALC
WENT TO A PARTY
THEY HAD THE BIGGEST
FOUNTAIN I EVER SAW

STILL DROOLING

Very,very messy.

My cousin had one in her house about 15 of us.
By the end of it her hubby was trying all sorts on it..sausges the lot, yuck lol.

I must say it was a novelty and a bit of of fun.

You could always buy one on ebay and have a chocolate fountain hen night :))

I melted some and put it in my fondue set, even that was fun and very tasty.
Belgian cooking choclolate works well.


Marion

The last wedding I went to they had strawberry chocolate as well as the milk kind....that was sickly!
Jen

Oh my God - have one, my daughter had one at her wedding 2 years ago, it was fantastic. This year she did the same for baby's 1st birthday party. Strawberries, marshmallows, choux buns, little muffins - I'm drooling now!!!!

The chocolate is really sickly,,,something to do with the oil thats needed to keep the chocolate flowing,,

My friend had another idea for her wedding, she had a sweet shop. Lots of bigs jars of sticky sweets, Black Jacks, Mo Jo's & fireman's hoses.

Saw one once, and it looked good. I've seen them on sale on the shopping channels.

Interesting to see how you get on with one.

xx

Our son had one at his wedding last week here in Portugal, very expensive but a great talking point and it was really good.

I have some good photos of it.

Christine

Hi Jackie,
Yes we the family had one.
Oh so scrummy,
We did hire one though, the bigger ones are better,especially if you are having lots of guests.

Marshmallows/Fresh fruit/Fudge/ sickly but nice.
Oh so delicious,can get rather messy though,its ok if you have 3 hands,2 to hold on to it, and the 3rd to wipe away the choccy dribbles lol!!!!!!!!!

Its a great talking piece,and brings out the humour in people,young and especially the old.
Any age loves it.
Well worth it.

Trish
xx

Didnt even think about it until we saw one at a wedding fair recently, they did look really nice and we thought it would be a bit of fun, also thinking about getting a big bouncy castle for the adults, why should the kids have all the fun!! Anything to keep Malc occupied!! lol

Jackie

I have two choc fountains the smaller household types - not massive industrial ones.

I use one for milk choc at parties we have and the other one I do alcholic choc in for the adults.

They are v messy never put one on your best table cloth and it takes a while to get the nack of melting the right amount of choc to oil.

I have also had them at work for formal functions the great big ones but find people are less ready to get stuck in at formal events than at family and freind gatherings.

A wedding though is a mixture of both so could take off quite well.

Maddie

I feel cheated,

Never been to a chocolate fountain...does the choocy
come out smooth out of whatever...hmmmm...

Years ago went to a red wine fountain for an old years eve party...
That was something else..

All the little boys were lying underneath...the pond where the angles were...peeing the wine into a pond, that splashed all over the place...

The kids had a ball...but must have had headaches in the morning...

those were the good times...

Lindy ;))))))))))))

Good idea might just do that although the money does include a fully trained operator who will run it for you and they supply the special chocolate. A friend of mine used ordinary chocolate and added cooking oil to make it run properly and the fountain blew up!!! left a bit of a mess

nooo buy ya own hun wil be miles cheaper than hirign one

stray
xxx