Lets talk candy... Nom nom nom

emeejeeayen

What are your tips to doing a candy bar with sanity? I'm sticking to cream, light pink and gold colors, but I still go on the bulk candy sites and am like RAWR I WANT TO NOM YOU ALL!!

Alternatively, tips to keep a dessert table sane.

Loopyseven

Are you talking cost wise?  Or tips for not overindulging with all that candy around?

Loopyseven

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Lets talk candy... Nom nom nom : Can't be done. CAN'T I SAY!
Posted by CourtaniaLynn[/QUOTE]

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</div><div>Yeah - cost wise - a lot of people go to Sam's or CostCo.  Keeping from eating all the things... I got nothin'.</div>

CourtaniaLynn

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Lets talk candy... Nom nom nom : Yeah - cost wise - a lot of people go to Sam's or CostCo.  Keeping from eating all the things... I got nothin'.
Posted by Loopyseven[/QUOTE]

<div>Man, the Reese's eggs are out right now... and it's KILLING ME. The holiday Reese's shapes are pretty much the best things ever to be things. Stupid wedding dress... I would only eat like... ten Reese's eggs... that's not so bad right?</div><div>
</div><div>Right?!</div>

emeejeeayen

Ha, sort of neither sort of both. I guess I mean how do I decide what to limit myself to? How many variations should I have? How do I keep myself and my guests from getting overwhelmed by a butt load of candy :

lyndausvi

Personally, I do not like color coordinated candy bars.  They are not as appealing to me. 

We picked not only our favorite candies, but old school candies that would bring back memories for our older guests.  It was more important to us to have our favorite candies than to have candies in a certain color.

 To keep us sane we picked out the candy, but had the venue buy them. Might have cost more, but it kept us from going crazy.

B2Z728

Fortunately a friend of my mom's volunteered to do our candy table for us within the budget we gave her. She took care of buying, storing and setting up everything. Our wedding color was a peacock blue, but I told her all shades of blue would work fine. I wasn't picky and I was happy it was one less thing for me to worry about. She also fortunately had all the glass containers from when her daughter had a candy table at her wedding and would reuse them. Everyone loved it, even with the guest list being 99% adult.

Here's what ours looked like:



ETA: OP, with your color scheme, buy up candy that is on clearance after Easter. You should get some great deals!

Peledreamsofrain

'not overindulge'

What language you talkin?

CourtaniaLynn

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[QUOTE]'not overindulge' What language you talkin?
Posted by Peledreamsofrain[/QUOTE]

<div>She knows not what she says.</div>

Knottie

Damn. I thought this was going to be a post where we talk about the delicious Easter candy I've consumed this week and still managed to lose a pound from...

I will still talk about easter candy. I think you should stock pile cadbury mini eggs pronto. If you show those to me in July... I will kiss you. You will have the happiest photos of guests around

Tip: you can pick out the creame, pink and gold eggs for your wedding and eat the rest.

CourtaniaLynn

In Response to Re: Lets talk candy... Nom nom nom:
[QUOTE]Damn. I thought this was going to be a post where we talk about the delicious Easter candy I've consumed this week and still managed to lose a pound from... I will still talk about easter candy. I think you should stock pile cadbury mini eggs pronto. If you show those to me in July... I will kiss you. You will have the happiest photos of guests around Tip: you can pick out the creame, pink and gold eggs for your wedding and eat the rest.
Posted by MuppetFan[/QUOTE]

Pretty sure this is bannable content. WHERE IS THE MODERATOR?!?!

versdirtyhippy

CANDY. Nomnom. I'm having little bite sized halloween candies on my tables. And I will be shoving them in my mouth.

Kate61487

My once piece of advice is to watch the size of your bags!  We didn't have a candy bar, but H was a GM in a wedding that did. The candy bar looked delicious, the bags were white and had been stamped with the B&G's names; very cute, but they were the size of the brown paper bags you'd buy for taking lunch to school/work, know the ones I'm talking about?  You can fit, like, 4 cans of soda in one of those.  The first few people through the candy bar STUFFED them to the gills.  I'm pretty sure their candy ran out way before half the guests would have made it through the line.  (I was being good on my wedding diet at the time so I didn't actually go through).

At another wedding they had smaller like chinese-takeout style containers; you still get plenty of candy but I don't think they ran out.

linnyv27

In Response to Re:Lets talk candy... Nom nom nom:[QUOTE]Damn. I thought this was going to be a post where we talk about the delicious Easter candy I've consumed this week and still managed to lose a pound from... I will still talk about easter candy. I think you should stock pile cadbury mini eggs pronto. If you show those to me in July... I will kiss you. You will have the happiest photos of guests aroundTip: you can pick out the creame, pink and gold eggs for your wedding and eat the rest. Posted by MuppetFan[/QUOTE] This made me giggle because I've been over indulging with the Reese's eggs perfect chocolate to peanut butter ratio! and also managed to lose a pound this week. Made me feel amazing yet disgusting all at once.