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ajdown
VIP September 2011

Sweet buffet options

ajdown, 15 June, 2011 at 14:19 Posted on Planning 0 69

We were thinking of having a 'help yourself' sweet buffet but having now discovered that the M&M shop has opened in London and doing some digging on the site, I notice that you can get a 1.5kg bag of personalised M&M's with your own message on them in two colours, there's an ivory one and a medium/dark green that is close enough to our hunter green. You can also buy them loose without a message but I can't find a price quite yet.

Would you stick with the various sweets to help yourself - being children of the seventies we were thinking refreshers, black jacks, cola bottles, chewits, shrimps, chocolate mice etc - or just have a big bowl of M&M's on the table that are replenished throughout the evening?

As we have about 120 guests for the evening, the M&M's work out at 62.5p per head, whereas the "mix and match" sweets I reckon would be about the same sort of price.

Any thoughts? Or are sweet buffets so last season now?

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Latest activity by bls14, 16 June, 2011 at 15:48
  • knitting_vixen
    Beginner September 2011
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    I wonder if you are having a sweetie buffet because it is the done thing, or something you think you have to have.

    Sadly, nowadays, the true meaning of the day is often lost, resulting in literally £s being wasted on so-called sweet buffets.

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  • ajdown
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    Funny.

    We just thought it would be nice to let people have something to nibble on when they aren't at the wb or the buffet isn't out.

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  • lauren700
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    I dont see why everyone feels they have to have sweet buffets now?

    (Im having one, this is for comedy value)

    Also - AJ Please dont switch your throwing bag from haribo to M&Ms i think they may hurt!

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  • Rizzo
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    I would stick with various sweets.

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  • lauren700
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    Also .... to answer your Q - I'd just have mixed sweets, I'm not a fan of the personalised sweets.

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  • JennyH10
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    hahahahaha I just nearly sprayed tea all over my computer LOL!! ?

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  • lauren700
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    Trolls?!?! thats pretty harsh AJ - we normally reserve trolls for the little buggers that start being smart under a new username etc. This is all just a bit of a joke and we are under our normal names

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  • Red Baroness
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    Not the correct use of the word 'trolls' there. No one has posted under a different username.

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  • Mrs C
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    I think of this and immediately think of peanuts on a bar.... ? I hope you will still have a scoop?

    And yes, the children will be going mental!!!

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  • D
    Beginner February 2012
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    We are having one next year main reason is i think it will be the only thing i will eat all day as i am beyond a fussy eater!!

    we have bought a load of jars and will just go on a shopping trip and get all the sweets that me and OH love! a lot of them are the ones you have mentioned, my OH has also spotted the personalised M&M, could you not get both? sorry that doesn't help but both sound like good ideas, what is you B2B preference?

    we are going to have ours where the evening buffet will be

    xx

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  • knitting_vixen
    Beginner September 2011
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    I think sometimes people post on here because they want to hear all of the usual fluffy responses.

    I simply was showing you another point of view.

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  • lauren700
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    I was just being akward!

    sozzles

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  • Rod
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    Couldnt you have both? You could have mixed sweets plus some bowls of M&M's? Otherwise, those who may have a peanut allergy will be buggered.

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  • skyrocket
    Beginner July 2012
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    I would have both! I have a sweet tooth that gets the better of me most of the time!

    In fact I feel hungry just thinking about it!

    xxx

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  • ATB
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    AJ - You have mentioned many times about keeping the children at your wedding quiet - so giving them the opportunity to gorge on a sweet buffet may have them bouncing off the walls.

    As you asked for opinons - mine would be a mix of sweets if you do decide to have any, but given the fact that you have often discussed overspending budget etc. I think it may be a cost that you could do without.

    I am not sure of the outcome of your post the other week discussing affording to buy yourself a new shirt for the wedding - things like this that are for yourself should be a priority over giving your guests something that is "in" at the moment and you feel you should have.

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  • ajdown
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    Funny you should mention that, I got off the phone from them less than half an hour ago to arrange to go over and pick one up.

    I don't recall when we came up with the idea of a sweet buffet but I'm pretty sure it was during googling wedding sites long before we discovered Hitched, and finding out that they were an 'in thing' at the moment.

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  • ajdown
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    We did ask our guests about allergies in their rsvp's and nobody mentioned a nut allergy - however I believe the personalised ones only come in chocolate not peanut, not quite sure why.

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  • (Claire)
    Beginner July 2011
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    Has some of this thread been deleted?

    I would go for the M&M's because I love em, but good point about the e numbers, e no's + kids = chaos!

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  • Red Baroness
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    Yes. Very quickly I must say.

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  • Mrs C
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    Annoyingly... yes.

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    Bugger! Its becoming quite a habit isnt it!

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  • Mrs C
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    Indeed... some threads get locked and are still viewable with questionable comments, others have relatively innocent posts deleted with no explanation... I feel censored...

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  • knitting_vixen
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    ???

    silly

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  • Rizzo
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    Maybe we could be provided with a list of things we can't talk about and an explanation as to why we can't?

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  • knitting_vixen
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    WSS

    this is ridiculous...

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  • Rizzo
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    On other websites I go on, we are told on the thread why comments have been deleted.

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    Who has the overall say in the deleting of the posts and what is the process or jist of it?

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    the hitched gods do, and theres no reason nor rhyme it seems

    right grinds my gears!!!

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    There are plenty of mods, so let's not point the finger.

    I can only assume it was reported and therefore pulled. Unfortunately this sort of thing was bound to happen when people decided to hide behind anon user names simply for the purposes of insulting people. Whoever it is, I hope you're happy.

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    So they just intervene where they feel its appropriate to do so?

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    **nods**

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  • ajdown
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    Just for clarification, I have not once hit the 'report' button on any post in this thread.

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