Weddingbee Blog

Last week I shared a lot of the little details of our wedding, and if you don’t mind I have a few more big ones to reveal!

You might remember that no Pittsburgh or Italian wedding is complete without a cookie table. It’s just non-negotiable. But with Candy Buffets taking over the world of weddings, I decided on a hybrid Cookie Table/Candy Buffet. The results were truly delicious!

I tried to stick to purple, pink, and green candies, while still making sure that they’d taste good enough that people would want to eat them!

I ordered all of the candy in bulk from Candy Warehouse (where you can sort by color) for less than $300 (candy buffets are NOT cheap!). We had leftovers of some of the candy, but I guess that’s what happens when you buy in bulk! For reference, here is what I bought for 250 guests (8 kids):

• Wintergreen Hard Candy Sticks - two, 80 ct boxes (way too much, one box would have been too much)
• Sour Patch Green Apple - 5 lb. bag (too much)
• Hershey’s Bliss Mint Chocolates - five, 8.8 oz bags (good amount)
• Watermelon Rock Candy - 5 lb. box (which no one ate, but it did looked cute!)
• Caramel-filled Chocolate Hearts - one 4 lb. bag (good amount)
• Now n Later - 180 ct. tub (which are one of my favorites so I didn’t mind having leftovers!)
• Purple M&M’s - twelve, 7 oz bags (good amount)
• Sweetarts Pink & Purple Gummies - six 11 oz bags (too much)
• Tiny Pastel Green Candy Hearts - 5 lb. bag (good amount)

In addition to all that candy, we also had cookies and other sweets. Someone recently asked me how many cookies we had, and I had to laugh. I would never use my family as a reference for wedding cookie quantity - my mother thinks you need 4-6 cookies per person (we had 250 guests, are you doing that math?). I am happy to report that we had at least 200 cookies leftover, so do NOT use her numbers (though she will claim that people ate less cookies because there was candy ).

In addition to cookies and candy, Burger’s grandmother adapted her famous Red Velvet Cake (that she makes for all major holidays) to cupcake size for our wedding:

And those tiny guys on top? A last-minute addition that Sister-Cheeseburger MOH and I whipped up in the week before the wedding:

Yes, you’re reading that correctly: Carbomb Cupcakes! I used this recipe, modified from this recipe. They were a huge pain to make but SO WORTH IT - especially fresh. Because they had to be iced a few days after they were made they were slightly dry at the wedding, but right out of the oven - OMG AMAZING. And I made them mini so that they went down like a shot. YUM!

Another detail that I absolutely loved was our Family Table. Placed smack in the middle of the reception, Burger, myself, and our families sat on both sides of a long, gorgeous table. I absolutely loved sitting with my parents to one side of me and my siblings across the table - with Burger’s family in the same configuration. It was wonderful being so close to everyone. You got to see some pictures of us sitting at it during the speeches, but here are some more shots:

Also present at our table were the chair decorations that I made using this tutorial.

Here’s a sweet shot of my seat a little later in the evening. My bouquet was starting to tire out and my cake was waiting for me when I took a break from dancing!

And because I don’t feel I really did our flowers justice, take a look at these gorgeous arrangements that Woodrings put together for us (on a budget, I might add!). Amazing!

Did you have a Cookie Table, Candy Buffet or some combination of the two? We were just at a friends wedding and they served donuts! It was awesome.

Catch up!

• Grow Old Along With Me: We moved to Happy Valley!
• Grow Old Along With Me: The Good, Bad, & Ugly
• Grow Old Along With Me: The Girls Get Prettier
• Grow Old Along With Me: We Exchanged Gifts
• Grow Old Along With Me: Burger Got Dressed
• Grow Old Along With Me: Bridal Suite & Flowers Galore
• Grow Old Along With Me: I Became A Bride!
• Grow Old Along With Me: We Made it to the Church
• Grow Old Along With Me: Down the Aisle They Went!
• Grow Old Along With Me: We Got MARRIED!
• Grow Old Along With Me: It Was Picture Time
• Grow Old Along With Me: We Took a Trolley Ride
• Grow Old Along With Me: Burger and I had our Close Up
• Grow Old Along With Me: There Were Blessings and Speeches and Dances, too!
• Grow Old Along With Me: We had a Blast in Our Photobooth!
• Grow Old Along With Me: I Showed You Our Details!
• Grow Old Along With Me: We Danced Through a Music Disaster

all photographs by the lovely and talented Jessica Ames