hello just a quickie do all venues let you have things like candy buffets, chocolate fountains and pop corn or cand floss cart?
ive saved quite a bit on my bridesmaids dresses buying all of them for the price i budgeted for 1 and was thinking of one of these things ive no idea what sort of prices for upto 100 people did google but none had prices which is stupid.
anyone doing any of these?

a lot of them we went to ask about quoted £2 per head.
were now doing our own.... weve asked the venue to provide an extra table and weve bought sweets jars from ikea @ 82p each and filling them with retro sweets.....

works out a hell of a lot cheaper. x x x x

I think you need to ask your venue. Our venue will not allow any food or drink from outside other than the wedding cake.

im doin my own sweet candy bar bought the vases from country baskets and bac end of this yr ill go buy all sweets in , its costin me £275 for a choc fountain with 8 dips and 3 hours maned services. id estimate its gunna cost me about £150/£200 for sweet bar including vases, sweets, bags and scoops. i suppose it depends how big and how much sweets u want x

Ok time to make ya all jealous he he candy buffet for 110 peeps with bags scoops etc included 140! Working it out as 1.27 per head for 110 peeps :p

Ive managed to get a 30kilo pick and mix stand and 7ft chocolate fountain with 10 dips unlimited for 3 hours all for £400 x

Its from our local candy buffet/cake maker :) saw them at wedding fair is 160 including 20 for delivery and set up but serves 110 peeps and includes the jars, sweets, bags, scoops, and our colour of fabric we choose black :) they are from horden in county durham if anyone wants link!

My venue did say no out side food and drink BUT they OKed the sweety buffet.

we did our ourself from the retro sweet shops on ebay it has cost around £250 but i think we have enough sweets to feed 300 people lol we did get carried away

we are doing our own candy buffet. if you love chocolate why don't you do a "chocolate paradise".... start your own trend ;-)

buy all your fav chocolates and either pre fill yourself or have them so people pick their own.

Make sure your venue allows it first

xx

Im doing my own sweetie buffet too, much cheaper and shouldnt be a problem for my venue :-)

thanks for your answers all :-)
im drawn between having a choc fountain or as lemlau surgested a chocolate paradise buffet as everyone knows my chocy love
BUT htb is a huge sweety fan so i was thinking maybe have a candy buffet as a surprise for him.
i feel cheeky though as wedding planner has agreed to a cheaper alternative to a buffet saving us £700 to then ask him if its ok to have one of the above hes bound to think hold on that must cost a bit isnt he? x

if i go for a DIY candy/chocolate buffet do i need to get them only in my colours? or does it not matter?
also where would be the best places to start collecting the jars/bowls/glasses?
xx

thats really good deal sk8erpunkbarbie! we have been looking around for prices but its looking at 250-300 could you send me the link please im getting married in durham xx