A candy buffet bar presents visual drama and sweet eats for birthday parties, wedding receptions, baptisms and bar mitzvahs. Pour your candy into jars, boxes, baskets and vases, set them at various heights on your table, surround the candy with themed decorations and and set everything on an eye-catching tablecloth for your guests' enjoyment. Also, provide small gift bags or boxes so guests can take candy home as a favor after the party. Does this Spark an idea?
By Color
Plan your candy buffet bar according to a color scheme, selecting hard candies, gummies or M&Ms that coordinate with your event. Pick pink and brown fashion colors. Select all blue and white for a boy baby shower. Or coordinate with the season and pick yellow, brown and orange for a fall party, or green, yellow and purple for a spring gathering. Match your wedding colors. For example, if you are staying with all white, choose white mints, white chocolate bark, white M&Ms and yogurt covered nuts.
Along with your candy selections, select candy containers that showcase your candy. Clear bowls and jars allow the candy colors to show through. Also consider boxes and baskets decorated or lined with colors to complement your candy selections.
By Theme
Candies can match your party theme whether it's a birthday, reunion or holiday party. For a Caribbean theme, for example, choose sugar-coated lemon and orange slices, white and brown chocolates in the shape of shells and coconut- and rum-flavored candies. In addition to your candy, include containers and table decorations that reflect the Caribbean theme through ocean, sand and sun colors, along with images of umbrellas, beach towels and tropical plants and flowers.
Other themes for your candy buffet bar might be flowers using floral shaped and colored-candies, or Europe with a variety of chocolates from Switzerland, Germany and Holland. Embellish your candy choices with tablecloths, containers and backdrops that reflect your theme.
By Flavor
Chocolate, a popular candy buffet bar flavor, could be created with truffles, M&Ms, miniature chocolate candy bars, molded chocolates and chocolate covered raisins. Other flavors lending themselves to candy buffets include citrus, cherry, peanut butter or mint.
Create height on the table by arranging your candy containers on boxes wrapped in fabric or wrapping paper that is decorated with images of candy or mimicking the colors of the candy you have selected.
Personal Favorites
Base your candy buffet on what you like best. Select five to seven of your favorite candies and pile them on your buffet. Or, if it's a family event, ask everyone to choose their favorite candies and use those for your candy buffet bar. The family theme could be emphasized through the placement of family photos on the candy buffet or by decorating candy display containers with photos of favorite family activities.
If it's grandma's birthday, pick her favorite candies, along with other candies that may have been popular when she was a child. Display one or more photos of grandma through her life stages from baby to senior adult amongst the candy. For the tablecloth, find a fabric reminiscent of fabric popular when grandma was a child.
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