Just for You

Just for You makes hand-crafted wedding cakes and event cakes to order in Thun and the surrounding region of Bern. Run by Carol Meile since 2016, the business builds each design around a base cake plus custom decoration matched to the couple's event, using only high-quality, fresh ingredients and a distinctive service: thanks to 3D visualization (3D-Visualisierung), the site says, wedding couples can see their cake exactly before it is made.

Carol Meile grew up in La-Tour-de-Peilz in the canton of Vaud, and took an unusual path to cake design. She worked as a flight attendant for Swissair and later as a cookery consultant for Electrolux before founding Just for You. She is now a mother of 3 daughters and a grandmother of 7. On her own site she emphasizes quality from the initial consultation through to feedback after the event, and lists sustainability and hygiene standards as part of her philosophy.

What Just for You offers

The business describes itself as making individual cakes (Hochzeitstorten), event cakes, and confectionery, all hand-crafted with high-quality and fresh ingredients. The site distinguishes between 2 cake styles: light sponges (Biscuits) filled with ganache, mousse, crème, or fresh fruit, suited to designs where shape flexibility matters; and for 3D-sculpted cakes, a sturdier butter sponge that holds form. This technical distinction is worth noting because it shapes what kinds of designs are possible. The lighter sponges work well for traditional tiered cakes with cream fillings, while the butter sponge base allows for more sculptural, artistic designs that hold their shape under modeling and decoration. Couples can customize flavors and decorations to suit their event, and the consultation process lets them match the cake structure to their design vision.

Carol's flavor menu is extensive. The chocolate cakes are chocolate-stracciatella, chocolate-vanilla, Kinder Bueno, Raffaello, Schokolade Extrême, passion fruit-chocolate and raspberry-chocolate. The fruit cakes, with mousse or crème, come in strawberry, raspberry, passion fruit, mango, banana, mixed berries, blackberry, mandarin, kiwi, pineapple, and lemon. The special cakes are Amarena-vanilla, Bailey's and Grand-Marnier (both marked as containing alcohol), coffee, mocha, plum-cinnamon and chestnut-vanilla. The offer page says she makes everything from classic to vegan or gluten-free cakes, and that gluten-free or lactose-free cakes are made on request; that is her own statement, and couples with guests who have a medical need should discuss it with her directly.

The business can provide 3 portion sizes, and pricing is based on cake diameter and height. For cakes 10 centimeters tall, diameters range from 10 centimeters (90 Swiss francs, 5 small portions or 3 regular portions) up to 35 centimeters (240 francs, 52 small portions or 37 regular portions). For 15-centimeter-tall cakes, the range is 15 centimeters (126.50 francs, 16 medium portions) to 35 centimeters (324 francs, 74 medium portions). The price page specifies that the base price includes the sponge, fillings of the couple's choice and a simple buttercream coating; the individual decoration is designed together with the client. Assembly, decoration and delivery are not included in the base price, and sugar fondant coatings, accessories, cake boards and cake toppers cost extra. Other sizes and options are available on request.

Delivery and logistics

Just for You operates from Thun, in the canton of Bern. Couples have 2 pickup options: they can collect the cake themselves from Carol's workshop in Thun, or arrange a delivery, which the page limits to Thun and the surrounding area ("ausschliesslich Thun und Umgebung"). Delivery costs 60 Swiss francs per hour of travel time, with fuel included. For couples traveling to Thun for their wedding, the workshop pickup is feasible if they have transportation. For those without, the delivery service is worth factoring into the total cost.

For both pickup and delivery scenarios, Carol offers a practical solution: couples can rent a special refrigerated cake box designed for transport and storage. This is particularly useful for couples transporting an unpacked cake to a venue some distance away, since decorated cakes are fragile and temperature-sensitive.

Payment options are straightforward. Couples can pay in cash, TWINT (a Swiss mobile payment app), or online transfer via invoice. Invoices are payable within 30 days of receipt. All pricing is in Swiss francs. The booking process begins with a contact form on the website. Couples provide details about their event date, preferences, and guest count, and Carol responds to schedule a consultation and discuss the specifics of their cake vision.

The lead time for custom cakes is not published on the site, so couples should ask about availability and deadlines when they inquire. Couples planning a wedding closer to the event date should confirm that Carol can accommodate the timeline.

Recognition and approach

In 2024, Carol took part in the Swiss Wedding Award. She writes that she was nervous facing the expert jury, and that she received a diploma with 16 out of 16 possible points, a result she was very proud of. The jury offered honest, constructive feedback that, she notes, both recognized her strengths and showed areas for growth.

She frames her philosophy around the idea that quality begins with consultation and continues through feedback after the event. The site emphasizes fresh, high-quality ingredients, individual designs that reflect each couple's wishes and dreams, and the understanding that small pleasures like a thoughtfully crafted cake can touch the soul and brighten daily life. Her home page quotes a French line as her motto, «Dans ce monde de brutes, j’ai besoin de douceur», which she renders in German as: in this hectic and often rough world, I need moments of tenderness and sweetness. She says the motto accompanies every creation.

Who it suits

Just for You works best for couples planning a wedding or major event in the Thun, Steffisburg, or Bern area who want a custom-designed cake built around their preferences and aesthetic. The fixed pricing structure makes budgeting straightforward if you work within the stated cake sizes; larger or more elaborate cakes can be quoted on request. The 3D preview is a practical advantage if you want to see the design before committing. The delivery service keeps couples from needing to transport a fragile finished cake themselves, and the rental refrigerated box is a practical detail for events where timing is tight.

The main caveat is logistics: if your wedding is beyond the Thun area, delivery is not available, and pickup from Thun may not be practical. Carol also does not publish a full range of custom pricing for specialty options (alcohol-based cakes, colored fondants, unusual flavors), so those require an email inquiry to quote. Couples marrying elsewhere would need to collect the cake in Thun themselves, ideally with the rental cooling box.