Letting Love Soar

Love is in the air. Literally. On December 6, renowned Toronto-based confectioner Dufflet Rosenberg joined Swedish airline SAS, VisitSweden and Stockholm Gay & Lesbian Network, to host the first mid-air, same-sex weddings on a Scandinavian Airlines Airbus A340 flying from New York to Stockholm. Dufflet provided sweets from its Small Indulgences line of gourmet chocolates for a special wedding reception and dinner held in New York City prior to the flight. Guests also received Small Indulgence chocolates as a reception gift.

Dufflet’s Small Indulgences are made with natural, top-quality ingredients. They are available in select gourmet food stores and boutiques, as well as online. Known as the “Queen of Cake,” Rosenberg has won numerous awards for her confections, including multiple sofi™ Awards from the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade (NASFT).

More than 300 couples worldwide entered the SAS “Love is in the Air” contest, posting their profiles online and encouraging fans, friends and family to vote online for them to win the grand prize flight. The winners of the U.S. contest were Thomas Landreth and Brett Kessler from North Carolina. After being thrown a party in New York, the couple flew to Sweden for their commitment ceremony at Icehotel and a honeymoon in Stockholm. A German couple won the opportunity to be the first gay couple married in mid-air, and a couple from Poland was the first lesbian couple to be married mid-flight. (Watch a video of the weddings and learn more about the contest and winning couples.)—Denise Shoukas

Denise Shoukas is a regular foodspring.com contributor and is the
author of foodspring’s food forager blog.

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