Weddingbee Blog

When I started planning our wedding some 16 months ago, I avoided deciding on a “theme”. I picked colors, and my dress (erm… I guess technically I picked two), and various other elements for our day, but… no theme. In retrospect, I think I was worried it would go awry. I didn’t know if I could pull it off without it looking overdone, and I didn’t want people to think, ‘Oh! Mr. & Mrs. French Fries’ wedding! That was the one where they did (insert theme here) and it was really weird.’ So, I avoided it.

Raise your hand if you can see where this is going.

Cut to: 6 months before the wedding, and me deciding on a “loosely based” theme. I still hesitate to even call it a “theme” … so, I guess we’ll call it a motif? Or a feeling? Something to tie everything together? Or… I don’t know.

Fine. It’s a theme.

What is this wonderful magical element that’s going to tie everything together? Candy.

Yum-o. Source

I’ve alluded to Mr. FF’s and my shared love of candy and all things sweet in the past; it’s why our centerpieces will be jars of various candies. But… big whoop! Everyone likes candy, right? What makes our sweet teeth any more special than anyone else’s? And why would we use candy at our wedding?

Well. When I say that we love candy… I mean… we love candy. At any given time we will have one or two types of chocolate candy in our house (my preference) and one or two non-chocolate types of candy in our house (Mr. FF’s preference). Mr. FF has been known to make a late night Walgreens run to pick up whatever we’re both craving at a moment’s notice. Oh, and there’s a bit of nostalgia factor for us with candy, too. Mr. French Fries brought me a different type of candy every single time we went on a date in the first months of our courtship. I guess I had mentioned on the night that we met that I liked candy, and he picked up on it. What a sweet guy, hey? (Um, pun obviously intended.) So, I guess you could say it’s just “us”. Some couples are both writers, or they love fly fishing or baseball or underwater basket weaving. We love candy. (This also spells disaster for our future children’s teeth!)

And, really… I think we’ll all agree that love is sweet, non?

Where will we be using candy, you say? Well, it will be a motif on our paper products (our awesome invitation designer is working on that! more on this later!), in reception centerpieces, scattered on cocktail tables and the bar areas, and in a few other places as well. You’ll have to wait and see!

So, this is where you come in, hive! What candy do you love? I’m working on getting a list together of our favorite types of candy, but I want input. What’s your favorite? What do you dislike? Let me know in the comments!