Candy buffet what to do?

bar10521

FI and I love the idea of using a candy buffet as a favor and our colors (chocolate, lime and tangerine) will fit perfectly for it. I'm starting to search for prices on candy just to make sure this is affordable. I found really cute small chinese take out containers in 2 of our colors or just clear frosted so you can see the colors through it on the oriental trading website. My question is how many types of candy would be good and how much of each? I'm inviting 150 people and I want to have a decent variety but I'm not sure if I should go with a lot of each and only have a few different things or if I should do a lot of variety and only a little of each. I feel like it's really far out to be thinking of favors but I just want to make sure it will work for the budget.

Klyn1983

This link helped me out when we were considering the candy buffet. We recently changed our mind to individual dishes of candy at each setting.

http://www.scoops-scoops.com/candy_for_candy_buffet.html

Also a couple good bulk candy stores:

www.candywarehouse.com

www.acandystore.com

SusieSunshine2

Hey bar.
I saw thread on the Boston board on inexpensive places to get candy for a candy buffet.  I think it was either earlier this week or last.

Good luck!

bar10521

Klyn, thanks for the links. That 1st one is great and helped answer a lot of my questions!

Susie, I'll have to go find that post thanks for the head's up!

iloveu4ever

I would says no more than 5 different candies.