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Hi all,


I'm in the process of planning my diy candy buffet. I'm just wondering if anyone can recommend suppliers for sweets, bags, jars and scoops.

Thanks, veggie x

Hey got my jars in ikea, scoops from allaboutweddings.ie (ordered from ebay but they were crap - tip pet food scoops are massive!), sweets and bags from chewbz.com. There was a thread on this last week and i posted the amounts of sweets i bought and amount paid if u wanna search for that. Sorry on my phone so can't search or copy and paste

The best thing to do is find someone you know with a Cash and Carry membership and buy your sweets in bulk there. I got my scoops on ebay and they were lovely but I have to decorate them a bit I think! I got my jars in Dunnes, Heatons, Ikea and TK Maxx as I wanted a more retro feel than the ones in Ikea. I ordered my personalised bags off Ebay and I made the sign myself with a vintage photoframe. My wedding is not until next April though but I'm finished collected glassware....etc!

I ordered my sweets from www.retrosweetz.com and for ones I wanted loads of I went to Cash & Carry but I found that I wanted more variety so could buy smaller amounts but loads of different ones from the website whereas I would have only got half the selection but the same amount of sweets from the cash and carry.

Most of my dishes I got from IKEA so cheap

Girls thanks so much for your replies. I checked thoses out, great websites I shall b ordering soon!

Could you please post the links to where you bought your bags.

I got bags and sweets from here: http://www.chewbz.com/

I ordered on 5th Jan and got everything delivered on 12th January. delighted with the service, i emailed them and was in contact with Emily as they didn't seem to have exactly what i wanted in the quantities i wanted on the website. I spend €140 and got

Strawberry Foams 3kg
Fizzy cola bottles 3kg
Pink and white mice 3kg
Jelly babies 3kg
Jelly beans 3kg
Fruit salads 3kg
Large chocolate Jazzies 3kg
Flying saucers approx 300
Milk Teeth box of 240
and
260 striped bags

morning sun - your wedding is sooooooooo near, EXCITING

septbride12 wrote:morning sun - your wedding is sooooooooo near, EXCITING

I know I am up to ninety with excitement wishing it was here but dreading the feeling the day after when it is all over, a few people over past few days have being telling me how depressing it is afterwards!!

by the way just recieved my scoops from allaboutweddings.ie (delivered by courier) and delighted with them. such a difference in the ones i got from ebay!! postage is quite pricey at €6.50 but as you can see I was running out of time!!

morningsun wrote:

septbride12 wrote:morning sun - your wedding is sooooooooo near, EXCITING

I know I am up to ninety with excitement wishing it was here but dreading the feeling the day after when it is all over, a few people over past few days have being telling me how depressing it is afterwards!!

ya id be often thinking to myself, what am i gonna do with myself when its all over, no more planning, haha. lets not think about it in a negative way. you'll have so much to look forward to aswell when its all over. have a fab day

aw thanks so much

morning sun - how many different jars/bowls have you??
how many scoops did you get?
are you gonna decorate the tables with anything??

AwkwardAnnie wrote:morning sun - how many different jars/bowls have you??
how many scoops did you get?
are you gonna decorate the tables with anything??

hey we got 13/14 jars i think. we had a bit of a scoop disaster!! bought 6 from ebay which were way too big, then only bought 4 from allaboutweddings.ie but they are actually really small so we could really could do with a few more but not sure where i will get them at short notice!! so have to think about what to do. if you send me a pm with your email address I will email you a picture of how it's gonna look??