Bulk buy chocolate?

Have you got a Costco by you and know someone with a card?

No to both unfortunately

I've tried some from ebay, they taste like Easter egg chocolate/ Christmas tree chocolate/ Cheap non branded chocolate (A bit more bitter than say Dairymilk or Galaxy)

Have you thought about buying the Aero bubble balls? They are delicious!

Available at poundland!

Edit: They're on BOGOF in Tesco quite often too. Depending on how big your boxes are 1 packet should do a few boxes (assuming they're the usual ones about 2 inches x 2 inches)

When are you getting married? If its Easter time, have you thought about Cadbury Mini Eggs?

If not, Aero Balls could be a good idea.

Hobby craft do boxes of foiled chocolates

Well we're getting married two weeks after Easter (April 13th) so I was thinking that by then people will be done with Easter and probably had their share of mini-eggs!

I wasn't sure about loose chocolates such as aero balls or maltesers etc as it's a little messier, if they get bashed around in transport they could start losing chocolate out the cracks of the boxes, and presentation wise i just thought it was nicer if they were individually wrapped. I also don't think that H2B would think that Aero balls were "premium" enough for the boxes.

I saw the ones in Hobbycraft a while back but they're actually very expensive for what you're getting. I think they're playing on the convenience of having them there with all the cardboard boxes (which is where we got our boxes from) but it's not a cost-efficient way of doing it IMO.

Raspberry ruffles? Buying a couple of tins of Celebrations/Heroes/Roses etc to fill the boxes?

What are raspberry ruffles? The name rings a bell but i can't picture them!

Again, the OH would say no to Cadbury/Nestle branded Celebrations as not being "special" enough. I suggested that already!

Coconut and raspberry flavour fondant creams covered in dark chocolate.

I LOVE them.

What about Lindor by Lindt, they do mixed boxes online and also individually foil wrapped chocolate eggs and you can buy direct through the Lindt Website, do you have any local sweet/chocolate shops? If you go and speak to them as you need quite a large amount they may be able to order for you from a Wholesaler.

Oh my God, I've not had these for AAAAAAGES!!!! They are lush! ?

We too are having small boxes filled with chocolates but ours are loose chocolates so I've bought a few big boxes from BHS in the Christmas sale. They are Lily o'Brian which are apparently nice and the use by date is much later than the wedding. Just need to keep them somewhere cool until then!

Thorntons are also selling off big boxes but they worked out a bit more expensive than the BHS ones.

You can get personalised M&M's in your choice of colours - I do think they are a little bit on the expensive side but if they fit your budget they would look good in the boxes.

Just a thought. x

Do they have to be balls?

Country Baskets do individually wrapped foil hearts very nice belgian chocolate, they sell them in packs of 50 i think

they are in the wedding section and are not too expensive and lots of different colours.

Or valentines day coming up m&s, co op, pound land also do mini foil wrapped hearts cheap especially after valentines day!

We've been considering John Lewis "just married" chocolate coins: http://www.johnlewis.com/231468109/Product.aspx

They also do "just married" rock candy: http://www.johnlewis.com/231468107/Product.aspx

Thanks for the suggestions, some good ones too! Regarding the M&Ms, they would've been great, but our favour boxes are annoyingly large so we would've needed a ton of them! Ideally Lindt Lindor would've been great, but i fear they're just too expensive.

In the end we saw a load of Thorntons boxes reduced yesterday so bought a ton of them and will drop five or six of those in each box.

Question - what should I line/put in the bottom of the boxes so it's not just loose chocolate in a cardboard box? Tissue paper's not right, but something like it...?

To line the boxes you could get some tissue/crepe paper and put it through a shredder so you end up with lots of tiny little strips. I did that for my Mum's Christmas present last year. Just a thought!

Just a thought about allergies- make sure you let people know what is in the chocs!