
Neither SweetHarts Sweets nor Melissa engages in or condones any form of discrimination whatsoever. SweetHarts Sweets is an equal opportunity employer, as is Melissa Joan Hart.

While the shop was her vision, Melissa does not currently function in a day-to-day operational capacity, and has never met. At the time, the actress's team released a statement that read, "Melissa Joan Hart is the owner of SweetHarts Sweets in Sherman Oaks, California.

In 2011, the store was sued by by a former employee who alleged wrongful termination and racial discrimination. "It's been a dream of mine since I was a kid," she told People magazine at the time. Melissa Joan Hart changed added candy store owner to her resume when she opened SweetHarts in Los Angeles in 2009. What's really important to you, what's really bothering you, have those discussions and let the rest go." The couple are seen here the month before their nuptials. "I think it's about picking your fights too. My husband and I just accept that we made a commitment to each other, and we're going to stick it out, and when we hit those rough patches, we just take a breather, step aside, have a good conversation or just give each other room to figure it out," she shared after 14 years of marriage. You celebrate the good times when you make it through those bad times. "There are highs and lows, and I think you've got to go through the valleys to get to the hilltops. "Mark was crying so hard and we were supposed to put our heads down, but his nose had filled up! I had my grandmother's handkerchief in my cleavage, so while the priest was speaking, I reached into my dress and everyone giggled - that was the only part of the day that didn't get caught on camera." Melissa - who went on to have three sons with Mark - attributes their success to commitment. "The most memorable part of my wedding was during the vows," Melissa said in a 2009 Women's Day interview. In July 2003, Melissa Joan Hart married Mark Wilkerson in Florence, Italy, in a wedding that was later televised on ABC. are we going to hang out?' And I said, 'I don't think so, I think I met the man I'm going to marry.'" Melissa and Mark are seen here at the 2002 Radio & Records Convention not long after they started dating.


"I met Mark and that night I made out with Jerry," she recalled in an interview with "Access Hollywood Live." "But the next morning at the Derby races, Jerry is hitting on someone else and I said, 'Oh, I see how this is going to be.' And then Jerry said to me, 'When we get back to L.A. One of the people she told was Jerry O'Connell, who she was seeing at the time. But the next day I would tell my friend (who can verify) that I met the man I was going to marry, and over the next few days I said it a few more times," Melissa explained. "I wish I could remember what we were chatting about. She reflected on their first time meeting years later in a 2020 Instagram post, recalling that her knees went weak as they talked. The actress introduced the band and it was love at first sight for her. On May 3, 2002, Melissa met Mark Wilkerson, the lead singer of the band Course of Nature, at a Kentucky Derby benefit concert.
