The Sweet Treat Company Blog

Vintage Wedding Ideas

Sweettreatco — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:51:11 +0000

Vintage style sweet shop

Vintage style weddings are huge at the moment and the Sweet Treat Company can assist with a vast array of sweets to suit your wedding style from sweetie wedding favours to having a full blown traditional sweet shop at a wedding. Sweets are a great way to keep guests amused at a wedding and rather than run of the mill wedding entertainment guests can get involved choosing their favourite sweets and taking a trip down memory lane!

Our sweet shop and candy buffets can be suited to any theme, colour or era, we know how much the little things matter, so we are happy to provide extra special touches to suit your colour scheme or venue. The sky is the limit and we love to work with you to create something that works for your wedding style as well as your budget.

We’ve been to hundreds of weddings and each one of them has been truly unique. We love making your wedding ideas a reality and with over 500 sweets to choose from there is something for everyone and if you are lucky the groom to be may even show some interest!

Photograph courtesy of Gemma Lester Photography

The Sweet Treat Company is proud to announce the arrival of the Bumper Bonanza Retro Sweet Hamper

Sweettreatco — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 15:38:26 +0000

The Sweet Treat Company is proud to announce the arrival of the Bumper Bonanza Retro Sweet Hamper! Brimming with eighteen different types of retro sweets and super cool treats it’s time to relive your school tuck shop days in a whole new way!
This retro sweet hamper is jam packed with all the retro sweets you can imagine and even some you have forgotten making it the ideal sweet gift!

http://www.sweettreatco.co.uk/categories/gifts/bumper-bonanza-retro-sweet-hamper

Long Gone Sweet

Sweettreatco — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:57:02 +0000

Does anyone remember Roocroft Nut Milk Chews…. you may need to ask around… Granny is 83 and enjoyed these, she thinks in the fews years after the war… we are stumped. I normally take great joy in giving Grammy sweets she thought were long gone but these I have never heard of…. any ideas?

Gobstoppers!

Sweettreatco — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:40:21 +0000

When you got your Friday Penny, our pocket money, we would visit the local sweet shop. You got quite a lots of sweets for a penny. One of the most expensive sweets in those days was a Gobstopper, although it would last you all morning, you could not break it you had to suck it! When I was about 7 or 8 around 1933, I found gobstoppers, they are not like the little gobstoppers around now, those are too hygenic and they are quite small, these gobstoppers were made for sharing, if my mind serves me correctly I would guess nearly as big as a golf ball (although being a lot smaller then they may have just seemed big!). We would buy a gobstopper if we were flush, they were around a halfpenny. They were just really sweet, they took hours and hours to finish off and every so often they changed colour…I think they always started off white, but then this is my memory, thinking! You would suck them for a while and then take them out of your mouth to check the colour… as when they changed colour you passed them on to your friend so they could have a turn, and so on. This was a favourite game of the time!

So that is my Granny’s memories of Gobstoppers ,we still have them today…even the huge ones, but unfortunately they don’t change colour. Although I must say Granny is sat here with me and is not convinced by the picture of them, and her teeth won’t allow her to try to see if they are still the same sweet, dont worry though there are 499 others in our shop and Granny is working her way through them. I love the idea of sharing a sweet (after sucking it!)

Sweet-Treat-Gobstoppers

… not sure todays H&S world would aprove!!

It’s a Sweet Life

Sweettreatco — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:06:27 +0000

Soon to come…. ramblings and fun from the sweet shop plus memories from yester year. My 83 year old Granny Irene, is a confectionery connoisseur of the highest order. Granny has been involved with all things Sweet Treat since the inception of the Company and researched and advised on nearly every sweet we stock and a few that no longer exist!

Granny loves a chat and I will simply relay her thoughts with a few of my own thrown in for good measure… so grab a cuppa we will be back soon.