Thursday, May 22, 2014

Throw Back Thursday - Sarah in Chocolate, 2011

Today's TBT post is a little unusual, to say the least. Sometimes art lasts for centuries, sometimes only minutes or seconds. In the spring of 2011, my husband and I were fortunate enough to attend our friend Sarah's wedding, while we were visiting the States for a couple of months. I had only gotten to hang out with Sarah a handful of times before her wedding, but every time I did, I enjoyed getting to know her very much, and she became dear to my heart very quickly. She is very good friends with my sister-in-law, and a few other close friends of mine. 

I think it is funny how quickly you can feel like you know and love a person when you meet them through other close friends–it's like a built-in screening process. :)


After the beautiful ceremony, we enjoyed some refreshments and danced a little. Eventually, the bride and groom joined us, and the real festivities began. The Blocks had a chocolate fountain at their reception, a very wise decision, along with all sorts of goodies to dip–my favorite is probably a tie between the bananas and strawberries.

While we sat around, talked and ate our fondue treats, Brian and I started to use our toothpicks to scrape up some left over chocolate. (Yes, we are those classy people.) Then we started playing tic-tac-toe–you do these things when you do not know very many people at a large event. Oh, you don't? Well, I do. I was probably taught not to play with my food as a child, but it must not have stuck. Eventually I started drawing little bunnies and whatever else the chocolate blobs looked like to me. 


On the table, there were some engagement photos of the bride and groom, taken by my lovely sister-in-law at Diana Meredith Designs (shameless plug). I was staring at them and was suddenly inspired. I returned to the chocolate fountain, drizzled a good amount of chocolate onto my plate, sat back down and started working. 

About 20 minutes later I had this:


Here's a close up:



She liked it, and so did the caterer. So much so, in fact, that she told Sarah she could keep the plate! I'm not sure if she actually did, but that was quite the gesture from the caterer, I thought. 

Art at it's yummiest. 

Thank you for inviting us to your beautiful wedding, Sarah. We really enjoyed it and were glad to share in the celebration of your marriage! God bless you and your growing family. 










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