Lets talk candy... Nom nom nom

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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>

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!

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

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

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[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]

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.

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