Candy Buffet

Having a wedding favor that was practical was my goal for our giveaways. What better way than to give the guests something that was edible. I've read from many forums about brides doing candy buffets for their guests. I saw pictures and thought it was something fun and different to do for our wedding. I haven't personally attended a wedding that had a candy buffet. I want to incorporate our colors into the candy selections - pink & black. Since there are likely not many candies available in black maybe I will do white instead in honor of breast cancer research. I want to use pink chinese take out boxes for the container guests can use to collect their candies.

Here are pictures of some of my inspirations...

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I bought numerous apothecary jars over the summer from Marshalls & TJ Maxx. I will likely buy more of the cylinder apothecary jars like the photo above used for the cookies for the rest of my containers. I saw various stores carrying them like Wal-Mart, Target, and Big Lots. I was thinking of either labelling the containers themselves or putting the names of the candies in frames. My sister-in-law was kind enough to pick up the frames for me during the Umbra sale this year. For scoops, I've heard of people buying them from the Container Store but their price just seemed a little bit out of our price range. The best deal I've seen is from an online store - http://store.primaryshopping.net/30002414.html. Another option would be to look into restaurant supplier stores.