Since this week we will be celebrating Valentine’s Day, Dallas Wedding Planner could not miss the chance to talk about chocolate.  We love chocolate! And Valentine’s Day would not be complete with out chocolate to top off the day.

If you have the opportunity to travel and love chocolate, be sure and put the flagship store of Pierre Marcolini chocolate shop on the Place du Grand Sablon in Brussels on your list of places to checkout.  Just look at this place.  It looks like a chocolate museum – chocolate on display. You would think looking at the store, you were at Tiffany & Co.

If you are traveling to Paris, tucked into Paris’s most upscale shopping district, Hévin, is a spot to pick up some fruit ganaches and chocolate lollipops wrapped in distinctive blue-and-gold packaging amongst the many other chocolate delights. Jean-Paul Hevin is regarded as one of Paris’s leading chocolatier and definitely one of the world’s best chocolate makers.  I would not know how to choose what I wanted in this place – a buffet of chocolate ready to be eaten.

But wait and take a look at this chocolate find from Tokyo.  Chocolate pencils are the product of a collaboration pairing Japanese architect and designer Oki Sato with patisserie and Iron Chef champion, Tsujiguchi Hironobu, the man behind Tokyo’s boutique dessert shops Mont St. Claire and Le Chocolat de H. Chocolate pencils come in a number of different blends with varying levels of cocoa.

We love this idea. It is very clever and precisely done! Wouldn’t these chocolate pencils be so much fun at a wedding reception. Even if you don’t like chocolate, you’d be talking about them for weeks after the wedding.

Even if you are not traveling to Tokyo, Paris or Brussels this week, be sure to enjoy some chocolate from your favorite chocolate shop with your special someone! Happy Valentine’s Day from Dallas Wedding Planner.