Sweet buffet & favours

Im having both, but im making the sweetie table myself. But I did go to a wedding recently that just had sweets, no favours.

We're not having a sit down meal so there won't be any formal favours. we are having a small sweet buffet, and as part of that we'll have heart shaped chocolates in organza bags and have also bought some personalised mini rolls of love hearts

We are having miniatures as favours for day guests and a sweet buffet in the evening, which we are doing ourselves (£60 of sweets from macros's and there is loads!)

We have done our own sweet buffet and was originally having little jars with sweets in for favours. Now decided it is just too many sweets so we are using the jars still but making our own raspberry and strawberry jams :-)

I'm having both favours and a sweetie buffet. The favours I'm making myself which are traditional almonds in homemade taffeta/organza bags and i'm paying a lady too do my sweetie buffet as I didn't want the hassle of doing it myself the night before Xx

Hi I get married next April and have bought sweets to start for my diy sweet buffet. I'm also doing chocolate lollies made and put in cellophane for guests coming during the day. We're having one big hot buffet in the evening so putting lollies on tables then offering the sweet buffet (along with a popcorn cart and candy floss machine) for everyone after the food...pure sugar high waiting for the guests lol xx

this is my mock of it so far with jar arrangements I have some small concave vases also and doing 3 sweet trees . And just some of the sweets to start

Hi I get married next April and have bought sweets to start for my diy sweet buffet. I'm also doing chocolate lollies made and put in cellophane for guests coming during the day. We're having one big hot buffet in the evening so putting lollies on tables then offering the sweet buffet (along with a popcorn cart and candy floss machine) for everyone after the food...pure sugar high waiting for the guests lol xx

this is my mock of it so far with jar arrangements I have some small concave vases also and doing 3 sweet trees . And just some of the sweets to start

Hi I get married next April and have bought sweets to start for my diy sweet buffet. I'm also doing chocolate lollies made and put in cellophane for guests coming during the day. We're having one big hot buffet in the evening so putting lollies on tables then offering the sweet buffet (along with a popcorn cart and candy floss machine) for everyone after the food...pure sugar high waiting for the guests lol xx

this is my mock of it so far with jar arrangements I have some small concave vases also and doing 3 sweet trees . And just some of the sweets to start

Uh oh so sorry for duplicate posts, it came up with an error each time. Didn't realise it had posted and now I don't know how to delete them. So sorry x

Bride88, bit cheeky I know, but I have got the same jars as you. How many sweets fitted in them? What was the bag size? e.g. 3kg?

Thanks

Oh I haven't worked them out from the sweets I have in the pic, I used others as i didn't want to open the bags of sweets that were unwrapped incase they went a bit funny as don't get married til April. I can tell you tho that I bought 3 bags of the party maom sweets and they fit in with spares . I'm just guesstimating but no doubt I'll end up wanting more sweets lol xx

Instead of spending the money on favours, that not everyone would like or take home, we donated to our local special care baby unit. We didn't have a formal sit down meal. Our cake was the centre piece of our DIY sweet buffet, which we opened in the evening once we had cut our cake. All we did was use vases we already had and made a trip to cash and carry. Cost around £60, including sweets, bags scoops and tongs

We aren't having favours, just a candy cart for guests to help themselves to.

We're doing our own sweetie buffet for the evening reception, and will be doing charity favours in memory of 2 of my grandparents

I have those jars too, good old ikea!!

Hey!

I think sweet buffets are fab to do. We do them, but we have american candy so they're a bit different. I've been to weddings who have candy buffets and the amount of guests that smuggle loads away in their bags is hilarious.

Another thing you could consider, my company The Candy Emporium does Candy floss and popcorn for weddings. This also goes down amazingly as the candy floss comes in different flavours, so we have mango to chocolate and bubblegum to coca-cola and more and they're on sticks. We also add popping candy, glitter and flashing sticks which make them glow and flash which is perfect for the evenings.

It's just something to think about, but i definitely think that doing the candy bar yourself is cheaper and goes great. There won't be able left.

Best Wishes xx

Hey!

I think sweet buffets are fab to do. We do them, but we have american candy so they're a bit different. I've been to weddings who have candy buffets and the amount of guests that smuggle loads away in their bags is hilarious.

Another thing you could consider, my company The Candy Emporium does Candy floss and popcorn for weddings. This also goes down amazingly as the candy floss comes in different flavours, so we have mango to chocolate and bubblegum to coca-cola and more and they're on sticks. We also add popping candy, glitter and flashing sticks which make them glow and flash which is perfect for the evenings.

It's just something to think about, but i definitely think that doing the candy bar yourself is cheaper and goes great. There won't be any left.

Best Wishes xx

Thanks everyone for your input...now need to think of a favour to have!