To ask about sweet tables at weddings

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I love how the sweet section of buffets look at weddings . For anyone that hasn’t seen them it’s a load of jars filled with sweets with tongs and little bags to put them in. I really want one but I’m on a budget and also not wanting waste.

Do you or would you eat them at a wedding party?
If you had one at your own wedding was it eaten ?
Thanks

And the sweet adverts targeted at adults.

I love sweets but the words Foamy Banana has got Boak written all over it, no?

Nooo. Foamy bananas are great as are shrimps.

Sparklingbrook that just makes it worse, I now imagine a fishy foamy banana (definitely, sure as hell not envy either)

I had fish ice cream once- it was hideous. Now imagining fish cream at a wedding out of a kitsch ice cream van.

What? Only kids are interested in sweets? What a miserable outlook

Our’s was eaten. We did it ourselves rather than pay an outside company some silly amount of money, jars and scoops off the internet and sweets from the cash and carry, with some creative decorations. We provided refills of everything too, the venue refilled everything as the night went on. It was demolished. Every wedding I’ve been to it’s always been a hit. Adults love the retro sweets and kids just love any sweets!

We had one at our wedding that I did myself, used a big dresser in our venue and got my own jars, bowls, scoops etc. Me and my husband love sweeties so it was nice to incorporate that. It was so popular, there was nothing at all left and we had loads! We also only had 4 kids so that was mostly adults! Loads of people commented on it, some took a wee bag to keep for the next day, take home for kids etc and people were tucking in all night when the my were walking to and from the bar . You can do it on a budget too although I got carried away with mine and probably spent a fortune

I have been to 4 weddings in the past 2 years and they all had a sweet table. You can do them yourself quite cheaply, if you buy big bowls or jars and some tongs and small paper bags.

I say small, because if you have giant bags, then kids will fill them and eat all of the sweets before the grownups get a look in (as happened at one wedding I went to).

A lot of people do them instead of table favours, they are not aimed at children and have seen them at child free weddings and I love them, think they are a great idea.

haribo rings and small marshmallows and jazzies usually go down well .

ive seen them done.yo know your guest so you know if this is their type of thing.
also smaller bags and ribbon ties were put on the side to take away as favours.
one even had the tags on the bags already so that people could grab their bag and put what they want in as their own personalised favour.

one saved money by saving up jar in the house in the months before and asking around .so they had a mish mash up all these different jars with a ribbon round.they also used the same jars for flowers in the on the table.it looked lovely.and everyone loved walking home with munching,especailly those big kids who were a bit tipsy.everyone looked so smiley.

pink and white mouse
jazzle .
rainbow drops.
cola bottle
haribo fizzies
jelly beans
sherbert saucers
black jacks.
Mikado
matchmakers broken up
fruit salad sweets.

I did a sweet table at my wedding and it was a hit with both adults and children. The jars were pretty much empty at the end of the night x

I love them. I also think they are naff :-)

Whether you should have one kind of depends on your friends and whether you think many people would appreciate them. women def seem to prefer them to men. No-one would have eaten them at my wedding (except me)

However, I would actually veer away from them if you have lots of kids. sounds counterintuitive, but i've seen kids turn into little psychos after too many of the sweets. At a wedding it's hard for their parents to keep them away from them and i've seen many strops, tears, tantrums and arguments.

Ours was hoovered up by the drunk adults, i barely even had any kids at my wedding!

The nice giant mason jars and tongs etc can be bought from B&M, Home Bargains - those kinds of shop. Think we got pretty silver and white striped bags off ebay, 100 for a fiver or something. Sweets from supermarket and/or Home Bargains again.

Alongside the cheese tower, the cut up wedding cake and the bacon rolls, it made a fab wee buffet at 11pm. X

I think they are great. People can get hungry at weddings with the meal times being different to their usual schedule.

This thread has really made me crave sweets and I don't have any in!

We had one at our wedding and everyone loved it. We did it ourselves, as organised ones seemed crazy amounts of money. Everything came off eBay or Amazon, including the sweets. I made my own tags for the jars and used the same theme I’d used on the invitations.

Mine was eaten. The jars were £4 each from a cheap shop, the bags a £ or so on ebay and then the sweets I got tubs online so not too expensive

We had one and it was massively popular, despite my DH’s reservations. It wasn’t a candy cart though, just 7 traditional jars/bowls with our favourite sweets.

I wouldn’t do it personally.

As you say, you’re on a budget so presumably you’re just going to buy the average sweets one can buy from Tesco vs really unique and special sweets. Most guests aren’t really going to care about taking some basic skittles or jelly babies etc home - and they could probably afford to buy sweets themselves if the actually wanted them.

HOWEVER you would be undertaking a cost to make the sweet table happen. Buying the sweets, the packaging/party bags, the wedding decor etc. You have to ask yourself if it’s financially worth it when realistically most of your guests won’t A. Appreciate it or B. Not think any differently about your wedding if it was there or not

I had one at my 40th and it went down very well. My uncle had one at his wedding and we devoured it.

I had one - bit oddly not by choice. A family member does them and gifted it to me (and I’ll be honest I was in the “naff camp”.

However - it went down a storm - people having photos in front of it, no sweets left etc.

It made no difference to my day, but people seemed to really love it - and I would go for it

Not for me. A cake table I could understand

We did one in lovely old apocathary (sp?) jars. It mostly went untouched but that's because the hot buffet at the reception we arranged through a caterer was surprising brilliant!

I asked one of the staff to bag it all up in pastel paper bags we had and gave them to guests towards the end of the night to take home. Loads of compliments from ours afterwards - turns out people weren't sure if it was for decoration or for use 😁

We did pay a lot for high quality sweets though. Not many flumps in ours.

It depends on your guests, I’ve been to a few weddings and it’s been a different reaction each time. At the last one the sweet buffet table was so heavily decorated that it looked like a decoration in itself and went untouched.

The one where it went down the best it was completely down to the massive overreaction of the guests (I don’t mean that in a mean way), they were so excited that it went within our half an hour. It’s all they talked about.

Go retro and it'll go down a storm!