Sweet Buffets

I am going to be having bowls and vases with things like jellybeans and smarties in, sweets that are visually pleasing so they are also like decorations at the same time!

Hi,

I am thinking about having a sweet buffett, did you hire your vases or did you buy them, my wedding this this December and I would love little paper sweet bags and small metal sweet cups but no idea where to find this stuff, I can source the sweets locally from a good webiste

Sarah

x

:-)

Hey, like the idea of the jelly beans, they will look lush! We were going for sort of retro old sweets from 'proper' sweet shops like sherbet lemons, and cola cubes though they will get sticky!

We're going to costco (friend has a card) next week to check out what's available and fill one of our vintage jars to work out how much we'll need altogether!

Sarah333 - getting my bags (pink and white stripey) and I've seen white ones too from ebay - very cheap! What website are you using for actual sweets if you don't mind sharing?

Hi

did you buy yur vintage jars? shall search ebay for paper bags but my colours are purple and gold so finding it a bit tricky, the sites below, one is local to me (Norwich) and the other one is equally as good, they offer good discounts for bulk buy, I was thinking about getting a company to sort it out but that is quite expensive!! :-)

we also want retro sweets, I am a haribo freak, thought I would grow out of penny sweets but am approaching 30 dont think I ever will grow out of them so to have it as a part of our wedding is quite fun I think

http://www.thepinksweetshop.co.uk/

https://candyswirls.co.uk/index.shtml

Oooops are you allowed to put website addresses on here? sorry if not!!

As far as I know it's fine to put websites on ? Thanks so much - the pink sweet shop seems really reasonable - I love their penny sweets! Going to see what Costco have put have heard their choice isn't huge so may well come back to these - have you used them yet?

Yeah bought our jars off my friend who had used them for her wedding last year - we got 10 for £130 as off ebay etc the ones I wanted were around £250 with postage! So were quite lucky, will try and sell them after though as it's still a lot of cash! i think others have had luck with Ikea but when I went I could only find small glass jars.

I'd like to see jars of random sweets like the foamy teeth, shrimps, mushrooms, eggs etc. Like proper kids sweets that you're not supposed to eat once you're an adult (but any excuse).

Add to that packets of popping candy!

Love these candy cubes, I'd be tempted to just buy a different one for each table

http://www.thepinksweetshop.co.uk/CANDY_CUBES

I have not used them yet just been looking into the whole process, never thought buying sweets would be so time consuming :-) i wanted to use a local company and there sight seems really good and all the sweets love to eat :-)

thats exactly what weve got tahdah! o and thanx to h2b, 36 more!lol (went a TAD crazy)

Ohh I love this idea! What are you putting the sweets in? I am thinking about giving favours maybe or putting sweets on buffet table

Hi

Sorry not been on. Had a nightmare couple of weeks. We got our vases from a florist suppliers on the internet if you shop around you can get some good deals. We also got a couple off Ebay. Again as others have said were are getting candy bags and scoops from Ebay. I found to hire was nearly as expensive as buying.

We want really bright sweets, jelly beans, jelly babies, m&m etc. Our colour scheme is gold and ivory so thought thia would brighten things up. xx

Hi All,

Me and my wife are selling some of the kit from our sweet shop on ebay at the moment, if anyone is interested please check it out.

jars/scoops - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220635885698

Large candy jar - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220635875803&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT

Chocolate fountain - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220635878317&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT

If i can help with anything else give me a buzz.

Cheers

Rick

Im just in the process of getting all of the things for mine too - im getting my sweets from macro where you get 600 1p sweets for £2.60 although there are some good web sites if you google retro sweets - im still looking for jars - struggling online as the postage is so much on them so finding that the charity shops and boot sales are great - also amazing what your friends and family have stashed away and are willing to let you borrow.

I cant waite to have them was thinking of getting see through plastic bags and making little stickers with our wedding date on (i saw a great example in fenwicks for £6 and thought i can do cheaper!) Any suggestions where i could get the bags and stickers from?

thanks

Katie xx

Ebay. Invaluable for crafty bits for weddings x

At the moment i am trying to stop OH eating the sweets!

We have Rhubard and Custard, Pear Drops, Jelly Beans, Jelly Babies, Skittles, Heart Throbs and Cola Bottles.

Twice i have heard him "Just checking" the sweets!

This website looks great...

http://www.tubs-of-sweets.co.uk/full-haribo-yellow-bellies-sweets-p-336.html

I'm looking for a mixture of haribos, flying saucers, coke bottles, shrimps etc. I'm even getting Hersheys kisses and personalised M&M's from US... i love sweets!

Sequins at Lilys at ebay...do some amazing retro candy striped bags with personalised stickers. Also do really cute wish tree tags and poems.

Hi Guys,

Congratulations on your wedding, if you are looking for a sweet buffet, please check us out on www.facebook.com/sweetheartssweetbuffets where you can see our page and recent events.

Look forward to speaking to you all soon hopefully.

Love The SweetHearts