In just two months time I will be getting married and I am really looking forward to spending time with all of my friends and family. We have picked the food, we have a DJ booked to entertain our guests, we have an amazing photographer to capture the big day and we have a brilliant wedding coordinator who I trust will make our big day run smoothly. So now I am busy planning lots of little finishing touches that our guests will enjoy.
One thing that I knew I wanted as soon as we started planning a wedding was a candy buffet, so the children (and adults) could enjoy some yummy treats as they danced the night away. Originally we were going to have a sweet cart but they can be rather pricey and I have already blown our wedding budget. So I decided to create a sweet table instead as they are much more affordable.
From the start, I knew that I wanted retro sweets that remind me of my own childhood and that all of our guests would be familiar with. Swizzels Matlow is that brand, home to classic sweets such as Love Hearts, refresher bars, Parma violets and drumstick lollies - perfect wedding sweets.
They also make great wedding favours too as you can get personalised Love Heart sweets and also giant sized Love Hearts, Parma Violets or Fizzers and get them personalised with your guests' name which not only makes fun place settings but also doubles up as wedding favour too and at only 60p each they are a bargain.
The Swizzels Matlow website has a whole section on wedding sweets, with favours, wedding love hearts and a candy buffet selection. As you are ordering direct and in bulk, the sweets are really affordable too, I got a 5kg bundle for £24.99 and we had loads of sweets and filled up 8 glass jars with the sweets.
The 7kg Candy Buffet bundle consisted of 1kg of each of the following sweets
- Love Hearts
- Refreshers
- Drumstick
- Parma Violets
- Fizzers
- Fruity Pop Lollies
- Double Lollies
I also got some personalised Love Hearts which were £10 for 50 rolls and I think are a lovely personalised touch to our candy buffet table. You can personalise them however you want, we just opted for the words Just Married and then Mr & Mrs our married name. I can't wait to see if our guests notice our married name on them. I think that they are the most perfect sweets to have at a wedding, everyone loves Love Hearts.
We got glass jars from Home Bargains and Asda to display the sweets in which were really inexpensive and we also got some cute paper sweet bags and sweet scoops so our guests can create there own mix-up at the candy buffet.
I am really starting to get excited about our wedding now and I can't wait to see all of my guests enjoying the candy buffet.
I just need to make sure I hide the sweets so that the kids and my other half don't eat them before the wedding!
That is such a good idea. So much fun too!
ReplyDeleteI love the personalised Love Hearts. x
They are so cute aren't they, I can't decide if I should have them as part of the sweet table or if I should use them as favours x
DeleteI love this idea - what a lovely idea for a wedding
ReplyDeleteThank you Kara x
DeleteOh sweet buffets are my favourite at weddings and parties. Just love you can dip in and out of them to give that energy to dance right through the night
ReplyDeleteExactly, I have a feeling the adults will enjoy it more than the kids x
DeleteI think this is a super great idea. Simple but cute, fun and guests have something sweet to eat or take home xx
ReplyDeleteThank you Melanie, we have little bags so people can create their own pick n mix x
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