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Melissa's Simply Sweet, LLC

Melissa's Simply Sweet, LLC

Glen Allen, VA
4.9 out of 5 rating, 41 Reviews
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    Carol W. Sent on 01/17/2024
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    The Best (and Most Delicious!) Day of Our Lives

    Melissa's Simply Sweet really was the icing on the cake for our wedding! Melissa was so friendly and open to trying lots of options for our desserts. Her creativity and hard work helped us to have a memorable selection of cake shooters and central cake. It's easy to say that the guests loved all the options because the bride and groom were only able to sneak off with just a slice or two of cake at the end of the night (which may or may not have been eaten promptly the next morning as breakfast). Everyone loved Melissa's creations, and we would highly recommend her for any party or event!

    Melissa's Simply Sweet, LLC's reply:

    Congratulations on your beautiful day! It was wonderful being a small part of your sweet day! I look forward to baking for you again and wish you a life full of happiness and cake! Xoxo
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    Katie Sent on 08/21/2023
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    Delicious Allergen-Friendly Baker!

    We were so glad to serve Melissa’s Simply Sweet Bakery at our wedding! The cake was delicious, and Melissa also made us a beautiful dessert table to offer our guests more option than cake. It was delicious, and we hope to order again for ourselves soon!
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    Melissa's Simply Sweet, LLC's reply:

    Thank you so much for your kind words and the opportunity to bake for your special day! I look forward to working with you again in the future. Congratulations on your wedding again!!
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    Kathryn G. Sent on 06/22/2023
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    Beautiful and amazing cakes

    Delicious cakes with a beautiful design. She really helped bring our vision to life. Especially, loved the mint chocolate and summer berry cakes
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    Melissa's Simply Sweet, LLC's reply:

    It was a pleasure to work with you both! I wish you a lifetime of happiness and look forward to baking for your future celebrations!
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    Mindy A. Sent on 01/04/2023
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    Spectacular

    Melissa went above and beyond to make my daughters wedding cakes exactly like she wanted and they were wonderful

    Melissa's Simply Sweet, LLC's reply:

    Thank you Mindy!! It was a pleasure to work with your wonderful family! I look forward to many sweet celebrations.

    Melissa xo
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    Lindsey G. Sent on 01/03/2023
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    Absolute perfection

    Melissa took what I had envisioned for both my grooms cake and my wedding cakes and brought them to life. Not only were they beautiful but delicious too.
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    Melissa's Simply Sweet, LLC's reply:

    Lindsey & Karl it was an absolute pleasure working with you both. I wish you all the happiness and look forward to baking for future sweet celebrations!! My favorite cake loving bride!! 💜
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    Courtney Sent on 11/13/2022
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    Wedding cake and cupcakes

    Super friendly and accommodating. She was flexible and gave us exactly what we wanted. She has amazing communication! I'll be recommending her in the future and hopefully doing business with her again!
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    Leah R. Sent on 11/01/2022
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    Wonderful wedding cake

    I’m not a sweets person but I will eat Melissa’s cake! It is very light, moist, and not overly sweet. She made a beautiful cake for my wedding and a cake for our one year anniversary that I look forward to eating!
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    Bonnie J. Sent on 04/21/2021
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    Best Wedding Cake!!!

    Melissa made a lemon blueberry wedding cake for my daughter's wedding. It was beautiful and honestly the best cake I ever had. She was wonderful to work with.
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    Melissa's Simply Sweet, LLC's reply:

    Bonnie,

    It was a pleasure to work with you and I look forward to more sweet celebrations in the future!!

    xo
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    Samantha W. Sent on 01/11/2021
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    Wedding 1/2/2021

    Melissa baked a gorgeous buttercream cake for our wedding and every single piece was eaten! Everyone loved it! She was also so accommodating of our covid 19 changes. Thanks Melissa!

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    I loved working with you!! So happy everyone loved the cake and I was part of your special day!! I wish you both a life full of love and happiness!! I look forward to future sweet celebrations!
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    Emily Sent on 01/06/2021
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    Can't go wrong with Melissa!

    Melissa was such a pleasure to work with! She was very helpful and always quick to respond. The cake was absolutely delicious and I can't wait to have it again on our one year anniversary :)
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    Melissa's Simply Sweet, LLC's reply:

    It was a pleasure to work with you! Congratulations again on your beautiful day! Wishing you a life of love and happiness!

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    Megan W. Sent on 01/13/2021
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    Melissa is awesome!!!

    I met with Melissa before COVID for a tasting. Her cupcakes are AMAZING! I eventually had to move my wedding due to the circumstances. She moved with me and displayed a beautiful arrangement of a desert bar with my cake. Highly recommend!!!
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    Laura L. Sent on 09/29/2019
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    Amazing!!!!

    Words can’t express the sentiment, beauty and of course the totally absolutely delicious desserts Melissa made. I’ve used her for years!!
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    Jordan Sent on 07/02/2019
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    Simple perfection!

    Melissa helped bring my cake vision to life. I am not a fan of big wedding cakes, and prefer simple and understated. I wanted a smaller display cake, but I also wanted to surprise my husband and have that cake be his favorite (cookies and cream) - and I could NOT find anyone that offered that, until stumbling across Melissa's page! It was exactly what I wanted!

    ... also, not kidding when I say we are constantly tempted to take the frozen cake out of the freezer instead of waiting for our 1 year anniversary. It was that good!
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    Melissa's Simply Sweet, LLC's reply:

    Jordan,

    I am so thrilled you love the cake!!! Come order anytime to hold you over until the big anniversary!! It was wonderful to work for you!

    Thanks, Melissa
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    Heather Sent on 11/09/2018
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    Amazing Experience, all around exceeded expectations

    My experience with Melissa's Sweets was absolutely amazing. We absolutely loved working with her and the cake was beautiful and delicious. We showed her a pic from Pinterest and she exceeded our expectations on the execution. We loved the cake so much that we have requested she make more just for us to enjoy!

    Melissa's Simply Sweet, LLC's reply:

    Thank you Heather!! It was a pleasure to add a little sweetness to your special day. I look for to baking for you again soon! Xo
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    Noelle Sent on 09/10/2018
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    Melissa is wonderful! She did an amazing job creating a dessert display for my sister-in-law's wedding. The dessert display was my gift to her for the wedding, so I wanted to make sure that it would be amazing and it definitely was! Several of the guests (who were from out of town) asked me if Melissa would ship the Chocolate Crinkle cookies because they loved them SO much! Not only were the treats amazing, but Melissa was great about working with us on delivery with our crazy schedule, I would highly recommend her for your wedding needs!
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    Shanty Sent on 10/09/2018
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    The cake was delicious!!! I highly recommend the honey lavender flavor!! Very flexible and professional!
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    Melissa's Simply Sweet, LLC's reply:

    Congratulations!! You both look gorgeous! I was honored to added a little sweetness to your magical day!

    Melissa xo
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    Jessica Sent on 07/04/2018
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    Melissa worked with exactly what we wanted for our cake and she was easy to work with. The flavors were fabulous and it all came out as we wanted.

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    It was a pleasure to work with you both! Wishing you a lifetime of happiness!
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    Jessica Sent on 10/26/2017
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    Melissa,

    We wanted to extend our gratitude and appreciation for making our wedding day even more special with our sweet treats! The cake was beautifully decorated, you are so talented! The cupcakes for our guests were a great hit, too! We are so glad we choose you to make our day even more special!

    Best,
    Jessica and Justin
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    Melisa Sent on 02/07/2017
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    Melissa was great from beginning to end. I needed a wedding cake within a weeks time and she accommodated all my needs. The cake that she made for our wedding with honey lavender and that was the best cake I've ever tasted in my entire life. I had several people come up to me and said it was the best cake they had ever tasted! She is highly recommended! She also increased my cake size when I asked her to as well as came early to build a support for the cake topper I had thought. She was amazing!

    Melissa's Simply Sweet, LLC's reply:

    Thank you Melisa! It was a pleasure to work with you and I am thrilled your day was a little extra sweet! Congratulations on your wedding!!
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    Ashley Sent on 09/24/2017
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    Melissa was an absolute pleasure to work with! Her professionalism was top notch. My wife and I were searching for a baker who could guarantee a peanut-free cake for our wedding and we were recommended by a family member to reach out to Melissa. Come to find out, she is a fellow peanut-allergy Mama which made me feel more than confident in her ability to guarantee my son could safely eat this cake! Her at-home state of the art bakers kitchen was not only gorgeous but fully functioning and smelled of delicious aromas as soon as we walked in! The tasting immediately proved we would look no further and we ended up booking her for a 5-tier wedding cake with four different flavors...the lemon blueberry is absolutely to-die-for!!!! Guests are still talking about the cake ;)

    Melissa's Simply Sweet, LLC's reply:

    I absolutely adored working with you and Christina, actually I love baking for your whole family! I can’t wait to work with you again in the future. Congratulations to you both!!
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    Jessi Sent on 08/30/2017
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    While in the process of finding a wedding cake baker, I was open-minded and flexible and, yet, I was surprised by the lack of professionalism at some bakeries and was feeling disenchanted with this part of the planning process…that is, until we met Melissa!

    From the beginning, she was the most responsive baker via email. (We hired Richmond vendors though we live in Arlington, so this was very important to me.) At our in-person meeting, which was quick and easy to set up, we were immediately impressed with her beautiful work space and her very obvious superior level of knowledge and professionalism. We tasted her delicious samples and talked for a bit and, for the first time, a vendor got just as excited as we were about our vision for the day! Her creative juices were flowing through that first conversation and, although she was open to our ideas and any changes even up to a few weeks before The Big Day, her initial ideas and sketched design ended up being perfect! We got many compliments on both the design and taste of our gorgeous cake.

    I’m very grateful we found her and would highly recommend Melissa to any couple! She was very easy to work with - a great communicator, flexible and happy to answer questions, conveniently allowed me to sign everything electronically and make payments via Square, and, of course, the cake was magnificent in appearance and taste! Don’t hesitate – Hire Melissa!
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    Carla Sent on 06/13/2017
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    Melissa's Simply Sweet made the cake for daughter's wedding! Her wedding was June 3, 2017 and the cake was simply fabulous! So many commented on the taste and the design. In our initial meeting with Melissa she actually drew the design of the cake after speaking with us and viewing a few of cake designs we like. Melissa is a talented professional who takes pride in her work. Thanks so much for your outstanding service.

    Melissa's Simply Sweet, LLC's reply:

    Thank you Carla! It was a complete pleasure to work with you both!
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    Lorianne Sent on 05/05/2017
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    Melissa is absolutely fantastic and a pleasure to work with. She took all of my requests and made the wedding cake so awesome. All of the guests complimented on it. She also made a custom groom's cake for the rehearsal dinner which had a bunch of hand painted sports logo's and it was completely perfect! The cake is delicious!

    Melissa's Simply Sweet, LLC's reply:

    It was a complete pleasure working with you both! I wish you so much happiness!! Thank you!!
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    Nikki Sent on 01/12/2017
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    We used Melissa's Simply Sweet for our wedding cake (and cupcakes) and couldn't have been happier with our experience. The consultation, service, and final product all exceeded our expectations. Melissa worked with us to create a vision that fit the aesthetic of our wedding and that was within our budget as well -- and she delivered on a Sunday, which is not as common as you would think! If we had it to do all over again, we would use Melissa's Simply Sweet again in a heartbeat. This is a baker who knows her stuff and delivers seriously delicious confections.

    Melissa's Simply Sweet, LLC's reply:

    Nikki & Bruce it was an absolute pleasure working with you both!! Thank you!!
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    Valerie Sent on 06/27/2017
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    Melissa brought in cupcakes for the staff at my school a few years ago, and sometimes I still dream about those cupcakes. So when I was tasked with putting together the cookie table at my brother's wedding last fall (huge tradition in Pittsburgh weddings), I knew Melissa was the person I had to contact. I got a variety of cookies and bars, all of which were fantastic and the guests at the wedding really enjoyed them. Now I dream about her cupcakes AND her lemon bars. Also her chocolate chip cookies. Also her brownies. Okay, well you get the point! Melissa's service was delicious, timely, and professional, and I look forward to calling her up again next time I'm in need of a great variety of treats!

    Melissa's Simply Sweet, LLC's reply:

    Valerie you are so sweet! I had so much fun making your sweets and look forward to baking for you again in the future!
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