DIY Candy Buffet

You can get scoops and candy stripe bags off ebay. We are doing a DIY candy buffet too. Trying to keep down the cost as much as i can though!

Thanks for quick reply

do you know how much the scoops are? havent looked there yet

what sort of jars and sweeties are you having? the hotel have said they will set mine up for me but hoping i can get in the night before to do it so i know its done how i want it

Set it up at home and take a picture. Then if you can't get in the night before they will still do it how you want!

Good idea thanks MOMB

Was wanting a raise bit to put on the table - anyone any ideas on what i could use - wanting the hotel to cover the whole thing with white table linen just so all the sweeties can be seen

Ebay is the best online place to get them. If you have a B and M local to you go there because they have lovely bits for very low prices. I got two fish bowls for £6 today and never seen them cheaper than that before.

These even kept the sweeties in the same colour scheme as the wedding Green and the other orange

Yes the B&M Fish type bowls are a great price got two of them. Did you also see the wee square jars with a glass heart on them they had cream pink or red lids? got two with the cream lids also and the big glass cookie jar in there.

how many jars do you plan on using?

think i need to get on ebay later for a look - never bought a thing on there before lol

thanks for the photo pics too they look good!

i love the look of this candy table - wond
er could i achieve this look myself??

I bought the sweets for my sweetie table today, I got them from the cash and carry. I got my jars all various sizes from Ikea great prices. My mother in law already had smaller scoops. I am not going for a colourful sweetie table just one that looks decent and sweets hopefully everyone will tuck into.

I want to do a sweetie table too and I think they look lovely when done really well
I'd say ebay for everything as well it's the cheapest I've seen, not been shopping for mine yet but will be getting scoops and personalised bags from ebay and as many sweeties online cheap as I can unless we find any cheap shops while looking about for jars, will be getting bowls jars etc from a mix of b&m, bargain stores and ikea I think! Love the pics posted on this thread they look lovely!

I want to do my own sweetie table too! I hope it will save money, the prices Ive seen to get someone to do it is over £150!

Ive seen small ice tongs for 99p! I just googled ice tongs and they seemed cheaper than ebay etc. So if I cant find scoops cheap enough will go for tongs.

The pics on here are amazing! I defo want some lollipops!

Ice tongs sound a good idea! The scoops on eBay look good too wondering willl a 5oz scoop be too big for jars, guess il have to order to find oth though! Really gonna try and track the lollipops down we have a retro candy shop in my town so will try there. Throwing packets of good date sweeties in my trolley each week in Tesco don't notice it all mounting up doing it this way! The Ikea jars look cool too plan to tie cord round mine and add wee luggage labelsof what's in the jars! Even in a sum bought a wee cream toast rack lol random thought of stacking the sweet bags in it...sound crap??

Ooops we've done one for ours in two weeks, and like everything else.....I got a bit carried away!! LOL, we've just had a practice run and I do think we'll be eating haribos' and the like well into the next decade But its been good fun, we even used trimmed branches from OH's 20-odd year old silver birch that he planted when he first bought the house, as our sweet tree stems as a real personal touch - not that anyone else will know but we will!!

I like the toast rack thing. We are going to use a cake stand for marshmellows too.

I like the toast rack thing. We are going to use a cake stand for marshmellows too.

I'm in a seaside town too must start looking in random shops!

What kinda cake stand you using for marshmallow?

Lol at haribo for the next decade - did you go to the like of makro or just buy as you see good offers?

Has anyone seen any brown paper bag sweetie bags online?

Thought I would bump this as I am trying to find stainless steel scoops slightly smaller than this for our candy buffet as I dont Imagine they will fit in the jars we have - has anyone else used these with jars from ikea etc, i just think the jars will be too small for the scoops??

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00CJ36P4Q/ref=s9_simh_gw_p201_d6_i3?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0JF7ZHAD8DWEVWEYM39K&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=429454147&pf_rd_i=468294

HELP!

on ebay! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/161139944340?var=460227242422&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

Thanks Elixia - will keep those in mind its the scoops I am struggling to get size wise, thinking a 3oz scoop might be better unless any of you brides to be have used the 5oz ones and they fit fine?? even plastic ones would do the trick!!

Heres some

https://www.candybuffetscoops.com/collections/metal-scoops

I' ll keep looking i did see some ages ago just trying to remember where

Thanks :-) I read the reviews of those amazon ones too and a good few ordered them for a candy buffet so should maybe be ok might order them only 5.69 and free delivery

Lollipops are great thanks :-)

I was in hobby raft yesterday and saw these 'DIY candy table' sets - wasn't very expensive (can't remember how much though) and they had 3 different size scoops - bags and labels for the jars