I’m so glad everyone enjoyed our nostalgic Candy Buffet! I kept hearing comments like “I haven’t had Pop Rocks since I was little” and “I didn’t know they still made Rain-Blo Gum”! I probably had a good 60-70 pounds of candy for our estimated 200 guests and we surprisingly had a decent amount left over. I bought most of the chocolate at Sam’s Club and the rest I ordered from Old Time Candy. The awesome name logo came from elle Z designs of course, (in case any other brides are interested orders are now being taken!)

I decided trying to do only color coordinated pink, orange, black & white was just NOT going to work. I also thought using scoops and containers was going to be too much of a hassle. I am very pleased to have used only completely wrapped candy so you didn’t have to worry about grubby hands dipping into the candy. Ew! Plus, it was really easy to setup and tear down at the end of the night. We were sending people home with entire containers full and we ended up with a good 4 large containers afterwards!

This was probably one of the big favorites of our reception and I would highly recommend it to other brides.  

I had a craving for a bit of chocolate yesterday so I ran downstairs and dug into our candy buffet supplies. Out of the 60+ pounds of candy I thought we could spare a few pieces. I poked around awhile looking at all the fun candy we had. It was still mostly boxed up so I began to organize and assemble a mock candy table. It appears I need to get some more containers because there’s quite a bit left and I ran out of room!

Putter ran down to check on me so the two of us sampled the Sour Patch Kids and Bit ‘o Honey. Then I sampled some of the chocolates. And a few more chocolate. (And took a couple pieces back upstairs with me when I left.) I really wanted to tear open the Fun Dip but I didn’t. And I couldn’t keep my hands of the giant whirly pops. I don’t even want to eat them. I just like looking at ‘em. For the first time in my life I think I felt a true sugar high…and it gave me a headache.   But it sure tasted good!

For all you other brides who are having or had a candy buffet (a/k/a a “candy bar”), did you dip in your stash or were you able to contain yourself? (And if so….HOW???)

Haha! Okay…maybe it’s not THAT big of deal…but it is fun. Seriously – check out the Giant Whirly Pops!! Mucho props to Old Time Candy. The only thing really missing is the candy stick swirls. They couldn’t guaranty that they would arrive in one piece. I think I need some of those though, so maybe I ought to find a local source.

I’m kind of a sugar freak and one of our favorite things is to scour the candy aisle for fun treats. So, for our guests’ tasting pleasure, I just ordered a boatload of candy for the candy buffet including:

• Jelly Bellies

• Jolly Ranchers

• Pixy Stix

• Root Beer Barrels

• Sixlets

• Bit-O-Honey

• Gummy Bears

• Pez

• Rainblo Gum

• Sour Patch Kids

• Now & Later

• Airheads

• Giant Whirly Pops

• Little Whirly Pops

• Little Unicorn Pops

• Giant Unicorn Pops

• Pop Rocks

• Nerds

• Wax Lips & Fangs (in honor of Halloween)

• Lik-M-Aid Fun Dip

• Popcorn Balls

• Caramelcorn Balls

• Rock Candy

• Gobstoppers

• Hershey’s Nuggests

• Blow Pops

• Tic Tacs

• Hershey’s Miniatures

• Tootsie Pops

• Hershey’s Kisses

• M&Ms

I started off trying to get mostly pink & orange candy but then you miss out on all kinds of other good candy! Hopefully I’ll be able to throw something together and get it to look half as good as those in the above photo.

 
Photo Credit: Knottie Anirahc

Well, let’s just say ours did NOT turn out quite so nice. I was trying to “Fun” it up with some crazy fabric and embellishments and that turned out to be not such a good idea. I had been planning on tearing it apart and redoing it. That is, until I walked in to JoAnn Crafts the other day, turned the corner and saw this lovely box that practically sang out my name:

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Hellooo Beautiful!

 I love stripes and polk-a-dots so my eyes were immediately drawn to it. YES!!! This was it. THIS was going to be our new card box. To add to my delight, when they rang it up it was on sale; marked down from $12.99 to $9.99!!! I love a sale! It completely made my day. I could not stop talking about my fabulous find for the rest of the day.

Nevermind that I probably spent more than three times the amount on my unfinished mess of a card box project…but oh well. Whatever. I am in so love with this box. Task complete, check it off the list.