I am having a beach themed outside wedding in August. I have ordered the cutest little pails for my wedding favors, and want to fill them with candy. The problem is I can’t use anything like Chocolate that will melt, and I don’t want to do little mints. Does anyone else know of anything I could put in the pails? If you don’t have any candy ideas anything you can think of would be greatly appreciated! I have attached a link to the pails so you can see the size. Thanks:)
http://www.candlesandsuch.com/14005.html
You can easily make some white and/or ivory gumballs look like freshly collected pearls. The best way to do it is pick up some lustre dust in silver or gold from your local craft store. It’s a painting dust you can use to add shimmer or color to cakes and pastries, and in this case a candy shell!
Take a cheap paint brush and swirl a little of the dust with some water. Brush one side of your gumball, and ta-da! A glimmering pearl.
Jolly Ranchers…colorful, right!
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I did the same thing and I used rock candy because it looks like sea glass! You can get it pretty cheap from http://www.OhNuts.com and they have a lot of different colors.
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Since it is a beach wedding, I would go with Nerds. You can get them in almost any color to match your wedding colors and they look like little rocks so it would fit the beach theme.
Good Luck.
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Jelly beans, you can get them in every color, so you are sure to find ones that match your wedding colors. They also have some that look like little pebbles or "beach rocks"
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I love what a previous poster said about the rock candy! It would look so cute!
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How about tiny seashells or the Almonds? Nerds would also work but a lot of the candy will melt.
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Sounds like a fun idea. There are a ton of colorful candies that you can use in place of chocolate. Jelly beans, gum balls, gum drops, Mike & Ike, Starburst, taffy, and anything peppermint would be so colorful and perfect for an outdoor wedding. I have a few ideas on my wedding blog, perfect bound, which you can check out here: http://perfectbound.blogspot.com. Also, Martha Stewart Magazine had a great article in this month’s issue about color coded candy. You can find some ideas here: http://blogs1.marthastewart.com/weddings/2008/06/here-at-martha.html
as well as here: http://www.marthastewartweddings.com/article/favorite-candy-vendors
Good luck!
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http://perfectbound.blogspot.com
http://www.marthastewartweddings.com
salt water taffy… sticking to your beach theme.. it might get a litle sticky but it wont melt.
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I am also having a beach wedding!! I am using the pails too but i am putting seashells in them because ants and other little things love candy or sweets…plus they can take the shells home with them as a souvenier of the wedding, the beach, and where they were. It can also be used at home as a decorations so it will be used for years!!! Good luck with your Weddng and Congratulations!!!
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i don’t know how melty they’d get, but how about swedish fish, gummy frogs, things like that?
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Swedish Fish
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They are really cute! My sister is also having a beach themed wedding and the favors are candy. They are rock candy on swizzle sticks. She got them for 42cents a piece. They won’t fit in the pails but are beach themed. How about salt water taffy?
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You can easily make some white and/or ivory gumballs look like freshly collected pearls. The best way to do it is pick up some lustre dust in silver or gold from your local craft store. It’s a painting dust you can use to add shimmer or color to cakes and pastries, and in this case a candy shell!
Take a cheap paint brush and swirl a little of the dust with some water. Brush one side of your gumball, and ta-da! A glimmering pearl.
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You can find a 2 pound box of chocolate almonds or a 2 1/2 pound box of heart shaped chocolate candies, both of which are covered in a hard candy shell, that won’t be messy if the chocolate melts at
http://www.e-weddingfavors.com/catalog/Cookies_and_Chocolates-30-1.html
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http://www.e-weddingfavors.com
salt water taffy (this would go great with your beach theme)
Jelly beans
jordan almonds
These would all be cute ideas.
Good luck and congratulations!!
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How about salt water Taffy…. it might get soft but it wont melt and they would be wrapped anyhow….
or swedish fish candy…
or chocolate rocks…I know you said you were concerned about chocolate melting but they are covered in a hard CANDY shell and in my experience they don’t really melt..they get soft but hold their shape:
http://www.nationwidecandy.com/CANDY/ItemRelations.asp?&GROUP=18&CHOICE=48
or white gumballs to look like pearls
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You can use something like Rock Candy Crystals.
http://www.ohnuts.com/buy.cfm/bulk-candy/rock-sugar-swizzle-sticks
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