Amorra Weddings: Personalized Sweeties

Wednesday, 11 April 2012

Personalized Sweeties

If ever in your life you're going to serve up some personalised sweets, your wedding day is the day to do it. Having a husband to be that has a bit of a notorious sweet tooth, I'm organising and supplying a sweets buffet during the evening do on my big day. I'd originally looked into getting a professional company to come in and do it all for me, but after being quoted a few very pricey figures, I opted to do it myself.

A few trips to homesense later, and I'd collected a nice little assortment of various sized mason jars and ivory ceramic dishes that I can't wait to fill with our favourite sweets. I also had a look online and found some very reasonably priced metal scoops and pink and white striped paper bags from Amazon. Perfect and charming for my DIY buffet. I think I'll also pick up some gold and ivory ribbons to decorate the jars with and pull together my wedding colour scheme.

Onto the tasty part - sourcing the sweets themselves.

I love the idea of personalised sweets and there a few brilliant and fun types of sweeties just waiting to be emblazoned with my and my husband to be's wedding day message. Here are my favourites:

Personalised M&M's - With a plethora of colours to match any bride's colour scheme and 2 sides of messages to print, these little pieces of candy coated chocolate are wedding day perfect. As favours or part of a sweets table they're charming and fun. They may be a bit pricey but I think they're worth it. Loves!

Love Heart's - You actually couldn't find a retro sweet more suited to a wedding day. With Swizzler Matlow offering them packaged in more ways than I can count, they're perfect for favours, sweets tables or just as a cheeky wedding day snack. I'll be investing in the 50 rolls for £35 pictured below. Just need to decide on what I'll put as my personal message....

A Bit of Rock - This pretty in pink 'Just Married' option sells for a very reasonable price from none other then John Lewis. You can also get these personalised from specialist websites (as in some of the pics below) but a word of warning...this can cost in the £200+ range for just 100 sweets. Eep! I think I'll just go for the perfectly pretty high street option.