DIY Sweet Table....

Wud love to know what ppl say for this. i am going to do the same. we have 60 guests. and were going to go to macro to get the sweets

Hmm sorry to be of no help...i would have no idea how much you would need. Although i will be visiting Makro for our sweets. I guess it depends what you want to put the sweets in?

Thanks girls,

these are the jars am thinking of having, £1 in Asda (thanks Flowmojo) so just wondering how many I may need?! I dont want to not get enough and we run out really quickly.

Hi,

you can get jats similar to the above for 59pence at IKea.

Just bought six, but have no idea how many sweets I will need! Want lots of haribos!!!

Ooh, there cheap! think a trip to Ikea may be in order at some time next year!!

Not sure what sweets we want, but Haribos will certainly be making it on the list!!!

As we're both children of the seventies, we're planning on 'retro sweets' like the candy shrimps, white chocolate mice, flying saucers, blackjacks, love hearts etc etc on our sweet table.

We're using Bookers but apart from that I'd guess all pretty similar to what everyone else is doing.

We'll over-cater because, let's face it, it's not like they'll go to waste afterwards is it..?

?as 70s kids ourselves, we are having the same as AJ, flying saucers, love hearts, black jacks etc, , , , I'm making sure I over buy just incase I don't get chance to indulge on the day, , , , , haha

xx Bev

We had a sweetie table at our wedding. It went down a storm and there was hardly anything left by the end of the night. We got all our sweets from makro and spent about £80-£90 on them. We got the jars from asda. Think they were on offer at the time. We ended up with abut 12 jars and a few bowls. A few of the sweets, we left in the packaging. Sweets like blackjacks and fruitsalads.

Cosmo, you have upset me now, saying there were hardly any left, , , , haha

Fingers crossed we are making bowls out of old records, we are having a few jars though because you can't put unwrapped sweets straight onto the vinyl, , ,

Bev xx

I think youl need a selection of jars and vases, cant rember whos pic this is but someone here mocked this up:

Thanks Flow,

Was thinking of getting the jars you seen in Asda and then maybe some bowls also, some scoops and paperbags, but the pic you posted looks cool, may invest in a few more different jars etc to lay them out! x

i think your right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was thinking 50g each per guest but a HIB on here suggested her professional sweety buffet provided 120g each.

To get an idea, the large bags of Haribo you could get in Tesco's are 160g.

Thanks everyone for your input - thought this thread was lost! he he

Kayl, think I will go down the route of trying to get roughly 120g per person to make sure we do have enough.

FLow, will defo go for different types of bowls, vases, jars etc etc, try and make it look interesting!

thanks all!