Candy Buffet Mock Up

Once the sweets and jars were bought, the next step was to fill up the jars, label them up and then have a play about with them to see how they would look set up on a table. I have to say I think our jars of candy look wicked!!



Not shown in the photo is a sign I made - I don't have a photo of the original sign, but I have the image that I created in PSP!



This has been printed off and placed in a frame, and will sit next to the buffet with some candy stripe paper bags.


Hope it goes down as well as we're hoping it will!!

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Ooo... piece of candy...

Once we decided on having a candy buffet we then had the fun task of choosing the sweets to go in the jars! Luckily I have a Makro card and we were able to buy them at wholesale prices. I think in the end we bought a few too many sweets, but they'll get used up - Halloween, Christmas and Birthday parties - they've got a long use by date on them!

Here are the sweeties that we chose - hope that our guests enjoy them too!


Mini Wham Bars


Sweet Bananas



Strawberry Whips



Shrimps



Rainbow Dust



Porky Pigs



Love Hearts





Gummi Bears



Giant Strawberries



Fruit Salads



Friendship Rings


Flying Saucers


Dolly Beads


Cherry Lips



Cola Bottles




Cherry Cola Bottles


Cherries



Candy Cones

I also made some tags to attach to the jars with ribbon so people would know what was what!




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Jars & Scoops

Once the decision had been made for us to have a candy buffet at our wedding we nipped to Ikea to purchase some jars...









Plus, we had a left over giant martini glass (which we are using in our table centerpieces) which we bought from The Range



At this stage I had no clue what sweets we were going to buy, so we just bought a load of different styles, shapes and sizes and hoped for the best! At worse I would always find some use for them in the home!

I loved the shape of some of the containers that I saw in the various photos I found online of candy buffets, but those were going to work out to be way too expensive - as pretty as they are!

The next items to buy were the scoops. I wanted to buy scoops like you see in sweet shop's pic n' mix a la...



But again, these were quite pricey, and I wouldn't really have a use for them afterwards either (unlike the jars!). With hindsight though, it's a good thing we didn't buy that sort - they wouldn't have been easy to use in the jars that we bought.

Instead we bought some miniature (compared with normal!) sized ladles and giant (compared with normal, but smaller than serving size!) spoons from the 99p Store. The bargain, was that they came in packs of two - a spoon AND a ladle for a bargantastic 99p!



Next came the fun part... choosing the sweets!!

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Sweet Love...

I can't remember the first time I saw the idea of a candy buffet - I guess it was probably in a bridal magazine. Candy buffets are seemingly very popular in the USA, and growing in fashion here in the UK....as soon as I saw it, I knew I would want one at our wedding!

I searched online and found lots of different images then sold the idea to H2b - it didn't take much persuasion!! My candy buffet dream would become a reality.

Before sharing our ideas with you, I thought first I would share some candy buffet love, after all I collected lots of pictures and it would be a shame not to share them!

I collected these images a long while ago - mainly via Google images, so unfortunately can't credit them. If you see your image and would like it removed, please just contact me, and I will do so.


























































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