DIY Candy/Sweet Table - What sweets are you having? 2 May 2013 at 9:45PM in Weddings & anniversaries 27 replies 34.2K views

scousewife

Hello lovely mse brides to be.
I have offered to do a candy table for my sisters wedding this September. So far I have purchased a lot of different sized candy jars, vases, bowls & a centre piece tall martini vase. Along with scoops & paper bags but I'm wanting to buy sweets that appeal to young & old and have bought some but worried if it is a broad enough selection or not. So far I have got;
Peanut M&Ms
Skittles
Toffees
Jellies
Marshmallows
Mint Humbugs
Hard boiled fruit sweets
Lollipops
Love hearts
Blackjacks/Fruit Salads

Is anyone else doing a DIY Candy/Sweet table? If so what sweets are you having? Would appreciate some input.
Thanks for reading

caz2003uk

We did a sweetie buffet for our wedding last Friday and it was a massive hit!

We had:
Cola bottles
Shrimps
Jelly beans
Jelly babies
Lips
Rings
Cherries
Jazzies
Fizzy chips
Milkshake bottles
White mice and
Flying saucers

I still can't believe how much everyone loved it!

Here is a pic of how ours looked (ignore the cling film lol)



A few small touches to:

I stamped all the sweetie bags to make them personal


And decorated the tongs and scoops to pretty them up a bit!

gilly1964

scousewife wrote: »

Hello lovely mse brides to be.
I have offered to do a candy table for my sisters wedding this September. So far I have purchased a lot of different sized candy jars, vases, bowls & a centre piece tall martini vase. Along with scoops & paper bags but I'm wanting to buy sweets that appeal to young & old and have bought some but worried if it is a broad enough selection or not. So far I have got;
Peanut M&Ms
Skittles
Toffees
Jellies
Marshmallows
Mint Humbugs
Hard boiled fruit sweets
Lollipops
Love hearts
Blackjacks/Fruit Salads

Is anyone else doing a DIY Candy/Sweet table? If so what sweets are you having? Would appreciate some input.
Thanks for reading

All the buffets I have seen recently seem to go back to the sweets of childhood, rather than hard "sucky" sweets -

Fruit salad
Blackjacks
Jelly Babies
Flying Saucers
Sweet Bananas
Shrimps
Flumps
Jelly Beans
Candy Neckaces
Swizzlers
Parma Violets


I would avoid the peanut M&Ms - just in case of nut allergies

HTH

lisajane8482

I'd also avoid lollies if there are children there. I was going to put lollies in to the kids favour bags until someone pointed out they could fall and choke on them. I hadn't even considered the possibility (even though we have 2 daughters) of this happeniing.... now I have a load of lollies in the sweetie jar.

kittybangbang

I'd like to do this at my wedding. I've heard that you can look in Pound Shops for big jars of various sweets. I'm just going to go for a variety of sweets (maybe 5 or 6 different types), stored in big vintage jars on a table decorated in my colour scheme.

I'll be buying small paper bags (hopefully cute stripy ones) and scoops to go on the table.

I also think you should skip the peanut things, just in case

scousewife

Thanks for the input. Your sweet table looked amazing caz2003uk & the finishing touches are lovely. I have acrylic butterflies that I will stick on the acrylic scoops & have stickers with bride & grooms names & date of wedding for the bags (a stamp would of been easier tho! wish id thought of that!)
Thanks for the suggestions gilly1964 I will add them to my list. I know what you mean about the peanut M&Ms but wanted to include them as they are the brides favourites & the grooms are Hard boiled clear fruits. I will place the hard boiled sweets at the back & will clearly label that the M&Ms contain Nuts.
Your right about the lollipops Lisajane8482 I would hate to feel responsible if something happened to a little one - I think I will scrap them then.
Kittybangbang I bought various candy jars from the pound shop but they never had any sweets in. Ive been buying different sweets every week along with my weekly shop so don't have to spend out all at once. I find supermarket own brand sweets amongst the cheapest & Home Bargains. I bought the striped sweet bags from amazon as found them to be the cheapest around.

tatabubbly

caz2003uk your table looks amazing, I'm not getting married for 2 years, would it be wise if I found cute jars to use now? They would be around €30 for a lot of jars and all I would need is the scoops and bags which I would get from pound shops when I spot the bargains!

caz2003uk

We used ikea for vases and bowls and Tesco for the lidded jars(£1.20)

my_definition

caz2003uk wrote: »

We did a sweetie buffet for our wedding last Friday and it was a massive hit!

We had:
Cola bottles
Shrimps
Jelly beans
Jelly babies
Lips
Rings
Cherries
Jazzies
Fizzy chips
Milkshake bottles
White mice and
Flying saucers

I still can't believe how much everyone loved it!

Here is a pic of how ours looked (ignore the cling film lol)



A few small touches to:

I stamped all the sweetie bags to make them personal


And decorated the tongs and scoops to pretty them up a bit!

where did you get the stamper? Thats a great idea.

Were doing a sweetie buffet aswell and i got these last week for it

http://m.wilko.com/wilko/product/detail.do?itemId=0319376

Got the small ones as they are quite deep and i didnt want to have to put 3 bds of sweets in each one

frazzled22

caz2003uk wrote: »

We did a sweetie buffet for our wedding last Friday and it was a massive hit!

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Where did you get it all from? I love it!

City_Girl_2

kittybangbang wrote: »

I'd like to do this at my wedding. I've heard that you can look in Pound Shops for big jars of various sweets. I'm just going to go for a variety of sweets (maybe 5 or 6 different types), stored in big vintage jars on a table decorated in my colour scheme.

I'll be buying small paper bags (hopefully cute stripy ones) and scoops to go on the table.

I also think you should skip the peanut things, just in case

Hi, a couple of weeks ago I bought 100 blue and white stripy paper bags from Amazon for my brother and sister in law 2 be's wedding and paid just over £3. delivered, they are just what they were looking for. I like the stamp idea too, will mention it to them:)

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