The Candy Bar: Tasty Treats to Satisfy Your Wedding Guests’ Sweet Tooth
Sure, the wedding cake is a tried and true part of weddings since before any of us can remember. But why give your guests one piece of cake when you can let them indulge in a buffet full of candy? A candy bar can be casual or upscale. It’s the perfect accent to any reception venue. A candy bar is fun and personal, and most importantly it will leave your guests enchanted with delicious sweet treats. Livingston Sweet Shoppe can sweeten your special day with their fabulous assortment of divine treats for your candy bar!
- Choose Your Sweets
For an outdoor, casual wedding full of light and color, you might want to go for a rainbow of whimsical variety with bright rock candy, every hue of jelly bean, gummies, silly-shaped chocolates, lollipops, gumballs, striped candy canes.
An indoor, more upscale formal event could call for candies such as toffees, exquisite varieties of chocolate bars, biscotti cookies, decorative chocolate-covered pretzels and strawberries, macaroons, pastry puffs and sugar or yogurt coated nuts and raisins.
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- Design the Delectables
Like your sweet selection, your design can match your wedding. For something casual and playful, arrange your colorful candies in clear jars of every shape and size like an old candy store. A more upscale look could present your desserts in classy giant martini glasses or on small decorative plates arranged on different levels over an expansive, dramatically lit table.
Another fun idea is to put two or three different candy containers at each individual table as centerpieces so guests can mix and match as they mingle between tables.
- Enjoy Like Kids in the Candy Stores!
Once you’ve decided on your sweets and display, get ready to let your sweet teeth run wild. Prepare fun dessert plates, plastic bags, or oversized wine glasses where guests can collect their treats. Make sure every separate serving dish has a decorative scooper so fingers don’t dirty the delights. Then step back and let the inner child in all your guests pick and choose from the sweet array. As guests are leaving, give them an artsy, monogrammed bag and ask them to peruse the buffet again for an edible wedding favor.
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