Wedding Planning Survey

Okay, I'm willing to concede I might be alone on this, so I'm posting a survey.

Do people think a fondue fountain plus table exploding with marshmallows, crackers, fruit, etc. at a wedding is:

• an unbelievably fun fantasy come true for a chocophile
• childishly tacky, like a cotton candy machine or a popcorn cart

The fondue table, coffee service, bar, cocktail tables, chairs, and band would be scattered around the room surrounding a dance floor.

The alternative would be what they call a Viennese dessert table, which would be a display of fresh fruit, chocolate confections, mini dessert pastries, and cheese wheels plus accoutrements.

INTERIM RESULTS:

Looks like consensus is divided. I was originally dead set against a fondue, but let's post PROS:

• it seems like a lot of people think older folks will be impressed by a tower of chocolate. They won't be that hungry after dinner and cake anyway, they just want something amusing to look at. The entertainment value is pretty much the only reason I'm even considering it.
• there will be plenty of fruit, so people who don't want more chocolate after dinner can nosh on that.
• a dessert table has the potential to get messy too.
• a fondue fountain is a conversation starter and a reason to mingle while assembling your plate.

CONS

• I personally find warm, wet, dripping chocolate disgusting. To me, when people dip their stuff in chocolate and then put it on a plate it just looks like a motley assortment of cheap food covered in brown glop. And when people start sucking on their skewers and fingers...oh god, I think I've convinced myself not to go this route.
• I don't really like my fruit and my chocolate to mix. Chocolate covered strawberries, shockingly enough, do nothing for me. Warm chocolate usually just makes fruit taste more sour. But hey, I won't be eating much of it so what does that matter?
• it won't be quality chocolate, probably Hershey's or Ghiardelli. I doubt they'd let me bring the chocolate. Actually, whatever chocolate they serve is 99.9% sure to be whatever's sold in the SYSCO catalog.
• it's almost guaranteed that someone will lose a piece of food in the fountain and start fishing for it.
• selfishly, I can have little boxes on hand for people to take home truffles and mini pastries if we can't finish everything. Leftover chocolate is just going to go to waste (and I won't state it outright, but let's just say the chocolate going to waste would actually be the best case scenario).
• Drunk people and a brown fountain. Sigh.