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They were great to work with! Thank you for everything!!
We were a little late to finding a cake for our wedding reception but Jaclyn was able to save the day. There were many different flavors to choose from and they were all so good! O...
ur cake tasted great and looked exactly as we wanted! We would certainly recommend Gala bakery to anyone!
The mini desserts for our wedding were a huge hit! We didn't get to try them because our guests LOVED them so much they were all gone by the time we finished our sunset photos. Nor...
mally weddings have tons of left over desserts, which is what we expected, but we were way off. Make sure to order extras because they will go fast!
Jaclyn made our cake and mini desserts for our wedding, and she did a fantastic job!! She was initially a bit hard to get in touch with and her replies weren't always the most time...
ly, but all of this was overshadowed by the amazing job she did delivering the final product! We had a small cake just for cutting, and 5 different mini desserts for serving, and all of them tasted absolutely incredible!! She delivered them the day of the wedding and took care of all the set up. Her prices were also the most reasonable of any option I could find in the Charleston area that offered mini desserts, as we wanted something more exciting than the standard wedding cake. I would highly recommend hiring Gala Desserts for your wedding! It's also worth mentioning that their storefront in Mt. Pleasant is absolutely adorable, and every single dessert we've tried from them is to die for!
Jaclyn was great to work with! I was on a time crunch and our wedding cake and desserts were the last things I had left to book. Despite some dietary restrictions and a quickly app...
roaching date, she pulled through with the most amazing cake and desserts. No one was able to tell that it was gluten-free and the presentation was absolutely beautiful! I highly recommend choosing Gala Desserts for your event!
Jaclyn did an amazing job for our wedding cake! We had a small 2 tier cake and then 3 different types of cupcakes surrounding. We had so many compliments on how good the cake was! ...
We even had guests sharing so they could try all the flavors. As some of the reviews say, Jaclyn can be a little slow to respond to emails - but she is almost always in the shop. If I needed anything I just stopped in and she was usually there. We only met once to discuss the details/ideas my husband and I wanted for our day, she took notes and she nailed it! I honestly couldn't have asked for a better cake/cupcake display!
I would have to agree with the below rating. I would not recommend this business and the professionalism was non-existent. It took months for email replies, and phone mailbox was ...
full so unable to leave a phone message. I gave up trying to contact toward the end (expectations low). The cake was lopsided and unfortunately stale (maybe made to early). She had done my best friends wedding cake and it was delicious, but that experience was not re-created for me. If you want to enjoy your wedding cake I suggest spending the extra money for someone more reputable.
While my cakes (grooms cake and wedding) we're delicious, I have to say I was very disappointed in Jaclyn's professionalism. For almost a full year, My mother and I tried to contac...
t her via email and phone, sometimes taking weeks to respond. She always had an excuse (moving, busy season, short staffed, etc). The day of my wedding, she had someone else other than herself deliver my cake to our venue and whoever it was put only a couple of the large bunch of flowers on the cake (I went over my requests for the arrangement in detail with Jaclyn and provided an in-color print out of what I wanted the cake to look like). My florist provided many flowers for the cake and per Jaclyn's request to do it herself, the florist did not place the flowers on the cake. Thankfully my mom saw it before I did and she along with my wedding coordinator were putting flowers on the cake at the last minute so it didn't look horrible (my mom said it did...I luckily did not see it). What I did see was the sad-looking fondant mini Spider-Man that I requested to be added to the back of our cake as a surprise for my husband. Again, a picture was sent to Jaclyn and she said it would be possible to make it. Well, I'm not sure if it was just horribly made in a rush at the last minute or if it wasn't stored properly and melted on its way to the venue, but it was hideous. For a $30 addition, I was extremely disappointed. And again it was supposed to be peeking out of the BACK of the cake as discussed with Jaclyn but whoever delivered the cake put it at the front so there was no hiding it. Again, the cakes were delicious, but I would never ever work with Gala Desserts again. After 6 months of frustration, I finally said something to Jaclyn about her lack of communication and she assured me that my cakes would be the least of my worries on my wedding day. However, dealing with her and having to deal with this on my wedding day was a nightmare.
Delicious desserts!! We were looking for alternative dessert options for our wedding since I'm not a huge cake person. Jaclyn's mini desserts fit the bill and were perfect for our ...
big day. Everyone absolutely loved them! There was the perfect amount. Only 2 mini desserts and some of the cutting cake was leftover about an hour after desserts were served-which we happily ate :) Jaclyn was also very helpful in planning the perfect setup to go with our theme. Our one minor critique was that she was a little slow to respond to messages leading up to the wedding, but she always did eventually and I realize it was her busy season. Overall, we wouldn't hesitate to choose gala desserts again. We loved our unique, delicious mini desserts!!
The cupcakes made for our wedding not only tasted divine but were absolutely beautiful. A picture says a thousand words, and it still wouldn't convey how much we loved our cupcakes...
and cutting cake.
Gala Desserts was exactly what we were looking for in a wedding cake bakery. Our cake was beautiful, elegant, and delicious. I did my research and you'd be hard pressed to find a b...
etter combination of value and quality in the Charleston area. Jaclyn was a pleasure to work with, from inviting us in for a tasting early on in our planning process (one of the best parts to be sure!) to delivering exactly what I had pictured on the big day. I would highly recommend her to anyone planning a wedding in Charleston!
Jaclyn was a great fit for our wedding, prior to our event we weren't quite sure how to go about deciding on what we wanted for our big day. After reading several reviews we reache...
d out to her. During the tasting she patiently took the time to go over the multitude of options and services that she could provide us. She explained everything in detail as well as provided recommendations on what would and wouldn't work for our reception. She was very accommodating to our needs and helped us narrow down what we wanted. Everything she presented to us to try we eagerly devoured, the hardest part of the process was minimizing what cake flavors we wanted (they all tasted incredible). On the Big Day everything was delivered and set up as promised and looked fantastic on display. All of our guests loved her creations we couldn't be happier with our choice and highly recommend Jaclyn and her desserts!
Jaclyn from Gala Desserts was great to work with and extremely affordable. I was a gluten free client (and used to eating not so tasty desserts) so I was THRILLED to have so many y...
ummy choices to choose from. She did a private tasting for my mom and I with regular and gluten free samples. She provided mini-desserts for our rehearsal dinner (GF brownies, GF cupcakes, key lime pies, chocolate covered strawberries), the groom's cake (which she designed to look like a Bud Light twist on cap for my husband) AND our GLUTEN FREE, Lemon flavored wedding cake (designed to look like it was wrapped in sweet grass baskets) and they were ALL so delicious. We just ate the top of our wedding cake to celebrate our first anniversary and it was still as yummy as I remembered on the wedding day. I cannot sing her praises enough - if you are in the Charleston area, you should swing by her storefront in Avondale and check out her desserts!
Gala's desserts (we did a Viennese table with lots of different kinds of mini-desserts) were absolutely devoured at our wedding reception, and everyone loved them. Not only were t...
hey delicious, but the presentation was a work of art. I highly, highly recommend them.
-David Shiffman , groom, 3/13/16
We didn't want a big, fancy cake. A friend of mine had done 4 or 5 smaller cakes, all different flavors, and that is what we wanted. I went to Jaclyn who was amazing. She offered u...
s a tasting and it was honestly some of the best cake I ever had (try the Opera - OMG!). We ended up getting 5 round cakes. She matched the stands to our wedding colors and decorated them simply with white designs. My only wish is that I could have eaten more!
Jaclyn did an AMAZING job on my wedding cake. It was exactly what I wanted and more. I looked for a while on cakes that had more favor to them and Gala was perfect for that. Their ...
amazing flavors were so tasty and rich!
Also the design of my cake was perfect. I asked for lace and it was perfectly done!!
This is a much try and I hope you visit them in West Ashley soon.
The only downfall was that the icing was super sugary. A little to much for my taste, however since my wedding I have visited and bought desserts from them 5 times!
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829 Savannah Highway, Charleston, SC
Jaclyn Story - Gala Desserts