I love this wedding idea - using apothecary jars or any kind of glass jar for either candy buffets, cookie buffets, popcorn bars or anything else you can think of. With the items being displayed in glass, you can make any table arrangement look stunning. And you can turn the 'buffet' of candy, cookies or popcorn into a self-serve favor station. You can provide your guests with favor boxes or bags and decorative scoops so your guests can put together their own sweet treat to take home and enjoy. You can pre-attach a label to the favor boxes (maybe with your names, wedding date and 'Enjoy!' on it) and with the favor bags, you could decorate them using rubber-stamps. Adding ribbons around the glass jars and with labels identifying the candy, cookies and/or flavor of popcorn makes the display even more special.
Probably, the hardest decision to make will be what colors and candy to use. All white? An array of colors? Only the wedding colors?
Glass jars also make wonderful additions to tables filled with fruit (limes, lemons, apples, etc), sea shells - the possibilities are endless.
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I LOVE this idea and have been playing around with how to make it work (hot summer months + chocolate = not so good). One question though, how much candy should I plan on providing? I'm having a hard time figuring out the quantity that would be necessary for ~150 guests.
Julie -
there's an article discussing the amount of candy needed for buffets at Favor Ideas - according to the article: Jon Prince (president of online candy giant CandyFavorites.com), says "buffets work best when you plan by the eye, not the numbers." Here's the link:
http://www.favorideas.com/wedding-blog/candy-buffet-ideas/
Great idea, and indeed Colors would be a difficult choice
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