Candy!

Does there even need to be another word in that title? I submit that there does NOT. As soon as I started imagining my wedding, there was always a candy buffet in there somewhere. It took me a while to convince other interested parties that it was necessary, but I did it without playing the "I'm the Bride!" card.

So I started making weekly trips to Michael's to purchase one vessel at a time with my 40%off coupon and my mom scoured Dollar Tree stores and Big Lots all along US-19. We found a bunch of great glass vases. In my mind, I could see the color-coordinated, chocolatey goodness coming to life. Some folks; however, were still having a hard time envisioning the final product.

Well I put my best computer-graphics-geek self to work and created an actual illustration of my vision. How dorky is that? I'm addicted... to over-planning. Hi, my name is Jen and I'm an over planner (Hi, Jen!). Good thing, I did though because I quickly realized that filling my selected vessels was going to cost me well over $300.00. Now I love my chocolate as much as the next girl, but I needed to find an option that would cinch the budget (if not my waist).

The solution for me was to incorporate cookies and caramel corn to my buffet, in addition to lovely candy goodies:


After much deliberation, these will be the tempting treats:

One word: Yum!