Sweetie Bars

We're planning on having one (or merging it into a dessert bar) but I've got no specific plans or pics as yet, sorry.

I am doing my own. Bought lots of jars and vases as I have gone along. Large martini glasses from the range. I have crystalized a love sign to put on and purchased sweetie bags from ebay. I will add some pictures

£6.00 each from next (also available in pink)

first attempt at a sweet tree with marshmellows (camera is crap they are white and pink )

Blinged up love sign

Sparkly Bride can I be nosey and ask how you've stuck your marshmellows on?

I used an oasis ball, covered it in tissue paper the stuck marshmellows in with cocktail sticks. My next one will be miles better (I hope ) ?

We did one - with all our favourite sweeties in, and used tags to pull it all together too.

However, I was thinking about this today and if i'd have known about them, i'd have a candy tree too (Just purchased one for hubbys easter pressie - made of Mars eggs):

I'm not sure to be honest.. Lots though. To put it into real size the base is bigger than a mug i'd use for tea - so there really must be a lot!

I just wish I'd have known about them pre-wedding!

Just out of interest how much did it cost to make you marshmallow tree? We are having a sweetie bar and I'm thinking I'm making a sweetie tree too.

We are having a sweetie table and I have brought various bowls, vases and things from The Range for ours. It cost me £80 for them all with the mirror plates but I am hoping to sell them after the wedding. I am going to set mine up something like this with all different sweets in and then put some nice decorative bits around them like letters and things.

Just for comparison - mine cost £20 to buy. HTH

Just be careful it seems a good idea to diy a sweet table but sweets cost an absolute fortune when your filling jars up sometimes its cheaper to get a company

We are getting our sweets from our local Costco. Have worked out it will cost us less than £50 for everything we need and considering this is for 140 guests and we were quoted £280 from a company we have still saved £150 and will hopefully get some more back when we sell them on ebay afterwards.

We are hiring an old fashioned sweet cart, includes hire of all jars, tongs, sweets, sweet bags - and we get to keep any left over sweets. It cost us £175 inc delivery, set up and collection from venue, but we also hired lots of outside lanterns and candles for the garden areas and a white royal mail post box so she did it all for £250 and threw in free table runners for all of our tables, too. I am sure we could have got it much cheaper if we had done it ourselves, but to be honest I'd rather not have things to set up on the day. I don't mind doing things beforehand at all, but any fussing to be done on the morning of the wedding will just keep me awake the night before

I just got quoted £1 a person

Hi

we had a sweetie buffet at our wedding last night!! here is a pic that we took in our kitchen last week as a mock up, we had almost no sweets left at the end of the night!

This looks amazing Dani! Did it all go well yesterday? What spectacular weather you had!

Yey congratulations Mrs. Hope you had a fab day. Can I ask where you got the tall sherbet straws from x

If you are after "retro" sweets, try www.aquarterof.co.uk ......tns of golden oldies from bygone years.

Peter

hi

we got all our sweets from Makro got to love Rainbow dust and jars from Ikea and The Range then got the ribbon and bows from ebay!!

All our guests adults and children alike pretty much ate them all

xx

I too am having a sweetie table and i have been getting our jars etc from asda and Tesco etc. My questions really on sweets. Those who bought from costco etc how many bags etc of each thing did you buy to make sure you had enough and did you have to keep filling the jars? Also hose of you who done their own lables/tags did you use templates? If so where from?

Thanks x

Thank you for all your replies everyone, greatly appreciated ?. I've done a little research and from the quotes i've had, i definitely still think it will be cheaper doing my own.

Dani yours looks wonderful, congratulations, hope you had a wonderful day.

I am having sweets as my favours. I have found wicked little jars which I am going to fill with retro sweets from my childhood )