Where are your sweetie bar sweets coming from?

pretzelnut

frannyann wrote: »

You could always cheat and get someone else to sort it for you?

http://www.clairejayne.co.uk/pages/sweety_table.htm

:eek: pay someone else, lol.

I think i am personally thinking way bigger than i need to, you would think from my list im catering for 500, when theres only 80.

I just happened to pick the biggest display from a google picture and im using that as inspriration, maybe i need to find smaller inspiration.

frannyann

princesswoo wrote: »

:eek: pay someone else, lol.

I think i am personally thinking way bigger than i need to, you would think from my list im catering for 500, when theres only 80.

I just happened to pick the biggest display from a google picture and im using that as inspriration, maybe i need to find smaller inspiration.

:rotfl::rotfl: Did I mention I m lazy

pretzelnut

I would pay someone, it would save me a load of stress, but i find this whole handing over control thing very hard.

I like to have an extremely large amount of creative input.

If i can do it myself i will, as a last and very last resort i'll pay someone.

mdhughes03

I have sourced cheap sweet jars from 99p shop, a £1.69 vase from ikea and a couple of large glasses. SO far all the sweets I have bought have been from poundland or the asda and sainsbury's basics ranges. ALdi are cheap too. The important thing to look at is the prie per 100g to see how much value you are getting. Most cheaper sweets are around 50p per 100g but asda smart price foam fruits and dolly mixtures are around 18p per 100g, a great big jar filled for £1!

SeaBee

My sweeties arrived today!! :j

I had bought 2 BIG "wine glasses" and 4 glass bowls from The Range, along with some kilner jars from Asda.



Sweets came in at £130 and £30 on containers so far - thought they would be enough, but need more!!

Saw some really nice "feature" pieces in my local TK Maxx this weekend starting at £9, so may have to pay them a visit at the weekend, so all in all I guess mine will have cost me £200

xjoannexxx

princesswoo wrote: »

I originally budgetted £200 as i knew i needed to buy glaases etc.

I have found glasses all costing about £25 each, then theres the sweets, bags, scoops etc.

So my budget has been blown.

Im holding out on buying the glasses to seei f there is another cheaper way of doing it, i have no use for the glasses after the event so im reluctant to buy them or even hire them.

I read somewhere that £1 - £1.50 per head. But i didnt know if this was including the glasses or just the sweets.
But the bigger the glass the bigger quantity of sweets to fill it, as theres no point in having a huge glass if its only 30% full.

£25 each for glasses to put sweets in :eek: you want go asda got mine for £1 and £2

fly_dragon_fly

SeaBee wrote: »

Hi Dinah

I've ordered mine from here. Got everything I wanted and have only paid £4.95 for them all to be posted. My order should arrive tomorrow - then all I have to do is hide them for 2 months!!!! :rotfl:

why did you show me this store i nearly pressed buy on some toffee crumble!

and i cant as i started slimming world properly tonight and am doing lose a stone in 12 weeks challenge!! so i have to stick to it!

SeaBee

fly_dragon_fly wrote: »

why did you show me this store i nearly pressed buy on some toffee crumble!

and i cant as i started slimming world properly tonight and am doing lose a stone in 12 weeks challenge!! so i have to stick to it!

I do apologise! I am also dieting, but it went out the window when the sweets arrived today!!! Pink pigs and foam strawberries..... mmmmmmmmmmmm

Best get a 2nd Wii fit session in to compensate! :j

SailorSam

And for that extra special one, try and get an empty ring box just big enough to say 'i've saved you my last rolo'

pretzelnut

I magaed to get 15 glasses of ebay, spent 16 hours going through every possible combination. As i knew there would be someone out there who wouldnt spell it right ou would just out selection of vases and not mention anything to do with a candy bar or sweetie buffet.

Just picked them up now, they are they giant wine glass, giant martini glass, giant brandy glass, giant slanted glass bowl, giant champagne glass, giant hurricane vase, couple of different sized fish bowls, couple of heart shaped bowls and a few cubed vases. Buying these large vases would have cost me £25 each but i got the lot for £60.

So im one very happy bride to be today.