Candy Buffet Tips & Inspiration
A Candy Buffet has become a very trendy, popular way of offering sweet treats for your guests to take home. You can choose a nice variety of candy in your colors and do a combination of colors, or you can do a variety of candy in different shades of one color. Think outside the box for containers. Containers don’t have to be made for holding candy, you can borrow glass vases or containers in different shapes and sizes for interest . Isn’t this the perfect excuse for hitting your local garage sales and thrift stores? Of course, your local craft store would have glass containers as well. Or, if you’re doing a shower, engagement party or rehearsal dinner and want to use this kind of set up, you can be as creative as you want for the containers. If you have a theme, tie your candy buffet in with your theme. Look at planters, boxes, toys, etc. and repurpose them. We have a shoe store chain that sells women’s shoes very inexpensively. Sometimes they have an offer where you buy one pair and get the other free. Why not use a cute shoe filled with candy? Get a variety of colors or styles. How about purses? They can be lined with plastic and filled up with candies. Or just set little cello bags of candy in them. Let your creativity shine through.
You’re probably wondering how to figure out how much candy you will need. I would suggest about 4 oz. per person. There are 16 oz. to a pound .
1) How many guests do you expect?
2) How many varieties of candy will you be offering? This will determine how many containers you will want.
3) You need to figure out the total capacity of all your containers. Then the number of containers times the ounces per container (16 oz in a pound) and this would give you a rough idea of the amount of candy to buy. Keep in mind you can subtract several pounds to account for the non-takers.
4) Try to find different heights and shapes of your containers and if you can elevate some of them, it makes the buffet table more attractive.
5) You can create a cute slogan to put on the candy buffet. Two suggestions are:
Sweet Memories
How Sweet It Is……
Sweet Remembrance
I welcome any other suggestions that you’ve found for bulk candy or slogans.
www.metrocandy.com ,www.candywharehouse.com ,are good sources for bulk candy. Favors By Serendipity has wonderful candy coated chocolate covered sunflower seeds in all the popular colors. Bags for your candy buffet can be varied and fun. And there are many boxes and labels you can use.
Now for the inspiration:
Candy Buffet
candy buffet variety
Candy Buffet Monochromatic
Candy Buffet Different Levels
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Great post, love the pictures especially the monochromatic, it’s so pretty!
Mmmm, this idea is so fun and it adds so much to the decor! If I had my wedding to do over, I definitely would have a candy station at the kids’ buffet. I don’t know what slogan I’d use, but I would have it printed on either personalized ribbon or personalized labels (or both) and display them next to a supply of cello bags.
I had a question what do you do if guest are rude at your candy buffet? I had a dessert buffet at my shower and the soon to be inlaws stuffed themselves and everything else with the treats and didn’t leave alot for other guest…. i am scared this will happen at the wedding. Do you think a sign saying one candy box per guest.
Hi Leanne,
I’m afraid this is one of the problems that can occur and does when offering a candy buffet as your favors. There is no doubt they are gorgeous. Perhaps they’re just a little too tempting to overindulge in.
I’ve been told by a few brides that this same thing occurred at their wedding, and they were not prepared with enough candy. I’d love to know what you offered at your candy buffet, since you mention you wanted to say “one box per guest”. Were your candies already in a box? Or, did they take more than one box and fill them? I don’t think putting up a sign is the way to go. I have a few suggestions that might help:
1) Have an attendant standing close by, suggesting they fill their bags to a certain point. Or, if your experience was that they took more than one box and filled them, perhaps your attendant can simply hand out the boxes to each guest so they are limited as to what they can fill.
2) Buy smaller bags or boxes so there is a limit to how much the guest can put in there.
3) Don’t put all the candy out at the same time. Leave some under the table for your attendant to use to refill the candy jars.
I’d love to hear what other readers have experienced, or helpful hints they might have for you. Also, if you have a picture of your shower candy buffet I’d love to share it with my readers.
If all else fails, and you find a candy buffet might be too costly in the end, consider getting a nice, practical gift- like favor for your guests which is easier to control the expense of.
Let me know what you decided to do. And we all would love to see your pictures. Send them to:
eileen@yourweddingwhisperer.com
If you’re ordering candy online, be sure to place your order well in advance so that you have time to stage the buffet at home before the party and order more candy if necessary. You also want to avoid rush shipping fees, as bulk candy can be very heavy! I love candy buffets! I think it seems overwhelming at first but it really comes together in the end and ends up giving your guests a party favor they can customize for themselves.
I adore candy buffets! my favorite candy buffet candy are the sixlets, rock sticks, jelly beans, and gummy bears. those have been hits at every wedding candy buffet i’ve ever been to!
I put on a candy buffet for my daughters wedding and had NO PROBLEMS what so ever.
A few things I made sure of was that I ordered 1/2 pound of candy per guest, each guest received a 1/2 pound candy bag at their table setting that I had actually cut the top off to make it a little less than 1/2 pound.
Offering NO other containers at the candy table limited guests to only one bag. This seemed to work very well.
You CAN NOT give them containers or they will over fill…it’s human nature or so it seems!
I also offered Carmel corn that I prepackaged so that they again would not have another source in which to stuff more candy.
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I am a dessert bar coordinator in Atlanta, and I have found it is difficult to monitor the dessert table throughout the event. I always have custom signage made stating what time the dessert table opens. In some cases, if it’s for a Mitzvah I often have to unveil the table, to maintain it’s integrity for photographs and such before the kids can get at it. For weddings and for events of 200 guests or more I always recommend an attendant for the table to keep the table pretty, replenish as needed, and help guests with their take aways. Thank you for this post! Check us out at http://jparkevents.com/
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