Anyone do favors with Personalized M&M's???

I did them for my engagement party. The personalized m&m's came in 8 oz bags. I went to CVS and bought a regular colored 8oz bag of m&m's, and used the whole bag to fill up as many favor boxes as it would (without eating any in the process!). Then I figured out how many 8oz bags I would need for the 90 favors I filled. It really depends on how much you fill each favor, how big they are, etc. Do this with yours, and then you can figure out how many you would need to fill 200 favors. Just order a bag or two extra, just in case. BTW... some of my m&m's were chipped or missing half the m&m (I think I got them to give me a little credit back for the weird ones).

Suggestion... save a LITTLE bit of $$ by mixing the personalized ones with your names on them with just the 'wedding mix' or individual colors, so not ALL of them have your names on them. They're a little cheaper, so they work well as 'filler' for the awesome personalized ones.

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Posted by sarahradio5
Suggestion... save a LITTLE bit of $$ by mixing the personalized ones with your names on them with just the 'wedding mix' or individual colors, so not ALL of them have your names on them. They're a little cheaper, so they work well as 'filler' for the awesome personalized ones.

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This is what I did. I think I had about 20-23 pounds total for 110 favors.

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Posted by sarahradio5

I did them for my engagement party. The personalized m&m's came in 8 oz bags. I went to CVS and bought a regular colored 8oz bag of m&m's, and used the whole bag to fill up as many favor boxes as it would (without eating any in the process!). Then I figured out how many 8oz bags I would need for the 90 favors I filled. It really depends on how much you fill each favor, how big they are, etc. Do this with yours, and then you can figure out how many you would need to fill 200 favors. Just order a bag or two extra, just in case. BTW... some of my m&m's were chipped or missing half the m&m (I think I got them to give me a little credit back for the weird ones).

Suggestion... save a LITTLE bit of $$ by mixing the personalized ones with your names on them with just the 'wedding mix' or individual colors, so not ALL of them have your names on them. They're a little cheaper, so they work well as 'filler' for the awesome personalized ones.

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Great suggestions, thanks!

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Posted by NovemberBride06

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Posted by sarahradio5

I did them for my engagement party. The personalized m&m's came in 8 oz bags. I went to CVS and bought a regular colored 8oz bag of m&m's, and used the whole bag to fill up as many favor boxes as it would (without eating any in the process!). Then I figured out how many 8oz bags I would need for the 90 favors I filled. It really depends on how much you fill each favor, how big they are, etc. Do this with yours, and then you can figure out how many you would need to fill 200 favors. Just order a bag or two extra, just in case. BTW... some of my m&m's were chipped or missing half the m&m (I think I got them to give me a little credit back for the weird ones).

Suggestion... save a LITTLE bit of $$ by mixing the personalized ones with your names on them with just the 'wedding mix' or individual colors, so not ALL of them have your names on them. They're a little cheaper, so they work well as 'filler' for the awesome personalized ones.

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Great suggestions, thanks!

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you're welcome!

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Posted by jellybean1420

Stupid question but how many bags is 20-23 lbs of m&m's?

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The custom color m&ms with your personalized sayings only come in 8 oz bags. The custom color m&ms without printing come in 8 oz or 5 lb bags.

So, if you do 20-23 lbs of all custom color with personalization, you would need 40-46 of the 8 oz bags. I did 2 of the 5lb custom color bags (total 10 lbs) and 20 or so of the custom color and printed m&ms (total 10 lbs).

I just finished this project. I made 100 boxes. I bought the boxes from Ebay. The box size is 2x2x1 1/4. I used a combination of my colors and personalized M&M's. I bought 2 5lb bags of color and 6-8oz bags. I used all of them to make 100 boxes. I would recommend doubling my recipe and some more!! There were quite a few broken candies that my nephew proceeded to eat.

Here is a picture.

BUMPED for girls who FM'ed me

Thanks!

We are waiting for them to have the pastel green! (they have it in easter bags at the stores) - but our colors are lavendar and mint green

No problem! Glad to help

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Posted by superkat

No problem! Glad to help

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PS - the boxes look GREAT!

We bought heart tins to put them in... obviously we didn't get the candy yet!

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Posted by Rachel1013

And they sell the wedding blend at Bed Bath and Beyond. So no shipping cost and 20% off coupons!!!

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Really??? Gotta start saving the coupons!