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We Both Got Rejected on TV — Then We Found Each Other: Giannina and Blake Oct 01, 2026

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Reality TV fan favorites Giannina Gabelli (Love Is Blind Season 1) and Blake Horstmann (The Bachelorette Season 14) sit down with Jove to tell the wild, unfiltered story of how two people who were publicly rejected on separate dating shows the same year found each other on Paramount+'s All Star Shore — and built a life together.

In this episode, Giannina and Blake open up about:
🌹 Meeting (and falling for each other) while filming another reality show
💍 A surprise proposal in Madrid and a 1.5-year engagement
👶 Their son Heath and what it's really like traveling internationally with a toddler
✈️ Why they say flying with an infant is easier than flying with a two-year-old
💒 Planning a destination wedding in Rovinj, Croatia — on a handshake, no contracts
🇮🇹 A Venice welcome party with a live opera singer and an accidental trip to the ER-adjacent chair incident
👗 The wedding dress that dictated the entire design of the day
🐶 Blending two dogs, a baby, and a wedding into one very full life

Whether you loved them on Love Is Blind and The Bachelorette or you're just here for a genuinely sweet, funny reality-TV love story, this episode has it all — heartbreak, chaos, and a happy ending.

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Peloton's Matty Maggiacomo on Cutting His Wedding Guest List From 200 to 60 Sep 17, 2026

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Peloton instructor Matty Maggiacomo and his husband Evan join Weddings-ish with Jove to tell the story of their relationship — a dating app match right as COVID hit, months of long-distance FaceTimes, and a proposal on the rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Matty and Evan get honest about the real cost of a wedding: they started planning a 150–200 person blowout upstate before scaling all the way down to 60 guests in Central Park — and why neither of them regrets it. They also break down their custom wedding fashion (a Tom Ford-inspired coat and a bespoke Brooklyn-made suit), the surprising reason they went a full week without speaking before the ceremony, and how PBS NewsHour co-anchor Amna Nawaz ended up officiating their wedding. Plus: Matty's path from local news reporter to Peloton instructor, and why Evan took Matty's last name.

Topics covered:
- Meeting on a dating app at the start of the pandemic
- Long-distance dating during COVID lockdown
- The Met rooftop proposal
- Cutting a wedding from 200 guests to 60
- Custom-made wedding fashion vs. designer labels
- Skipping the "first look" tradition
- Amna Nawaz officiating their ceremony
- Taking your husband's last name

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Project Runway's Anna Molinari on Winning the David's Bridal Challenge | Weddings-ish with Jove Sep 04, 2026

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Jove sits down with Project Runway Season 22 designer Anna Molinari—fresh off her win in the David's Bridal Wedding Challenge—to talk sustainable fashion, deadstock lace, and the two-piece bridal look that beat out five male designers to take the win.

Anna opens up about:
- Growing up watching Project Runway and turning a childhood dream into a competition run
- Why she builds everything from deadstock fabric, thrifted materials, and even paper towels (yes, really)
- The chaos of a surprise "second look" curveball with zero extra time
- Crying on camera, developing a literal stye from stress, and why she's not built to be a reality villain
- What it means to have her designs—made from deadstock, made to order—hitting David's Bridal online and in stores nationwide

Watch Project Runway on Hulu, Freeform, Disney+

Shop Anna's David's Bridal Challenge–winning designs—her Exclusive Bridal Collection is available now at David's Bridal https://www.davidsbridal.com

Peloton Love Story: Rebecca Kennedy on Falling for Andy Speer — and Getting Married Twice Aug 20, 2026

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We're bringing back one of the most-loved conversations in Weddings-ish history! By popular demand, we're re-sharing our chat with Peloton instructor Rebecca Kennedy — this episode has been our most-listened-to ever, and if you missed it the first time, now's your chance.

In this episode, Rebecca shares the story of not one, but two unforgettable weddings with her fellow Peloton instructor Andy Speer, and the love story that led there.

Episode Highlights:
- Meet Rebecca Kennedy and hear the story of her two weddings — a family ceremony in Cape Cod and a festival-style celebration in Italy
- How Rebecca and Andy went from a decade-long friendship to life partners, with a surprise proposal in South Africa
- Inside Rebecca's Italian "Festival of Us" wedding, including a ceremony under disco balls, and what it took to plan two weddings weeks apart
- Rebecca's advice for planning a wedding that reflects your values — and why the experience and energy of the day matter more than the details

This episode is filled with inspiration, laughter, and love. Whether you're planning your own wedding or just love a good love story, don't miss it.

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Emma Arletta Talks Plus-Size Wedding Dress Shopping, Toxic Exes & Her Rolls-Royce Exit Aug 06, 2026

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This week on Weddings-ish, Jove sits down with content creator, model, and newlywed Emma Arletta for a candid conversation about love, plus-size bridal fashion, and building a wedding that actually reflects you. Emma opens up about her slow-burn love story with husband Kelton (including the Hinge left-swipe he tried to hide for years), leaving a toxic relationship, and navigating a cross-country long-distance stretch before their Oklahoma wedding day.

She also traces her path from speech therapy to viral TikTok star and full-time content creator advocating for size inclusivity in fashion and bridal.

The two dig deep into wedding planning highlights, including:

Private vows over coffee instead of a public ceremony
A runway-style processional with a wheelchair-spin entrance
A surprise gospel choir performance embedded in the crowd
Matching her wedding dress to her cake (by accident)
A red-carpet-style paparazzi grand exit in a vintage Rolls-Royce
Why she believes every couple should splurge on a wedding planner

Emma also shares the story behind launching her own inclusive bridal line, designed to fill the gaps she experienced while planning her own wedding — from getting-ready robes to rehearsal dinner looks, sized 10 to 32.

Plus, in this episode's Ask Jove segment, Jove and guest co-host Sloane tackle a listener question about navigating traditional wedding expectations as a queer couple — and why writing your own rules is a gift, not a compromise.

Got a question for Ask Jove? Email hi@jove.com or send a voice memo — you might be featured on the show!

The Food Guy Got Married! Inside Tommy Winkler and Jess Pappas’ Viral Wedding Jul 23, 2026

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Foodies and wedding lovers, this one’s for you! 🍰 Tommy Winkler — better known as The Food Guy — joins Jove with his wife, Jess Pappas, to talk about their viral castle wedding, their college quarantine love story, and the pressure of planning a wedding menu when millions of people know you for food.

Tommy and Jess open up about:

How getting COVID in college unexpectedly brought them together
Why they moved in together after only six months of dating
Building a relationship and social media business side by side
Inside their European-inspired wedding at Meyer’s Castle
Why doing a first look didn’t take away from the aisle moment
Their rule for creating an intimate 100-person guest list
The pressure Tommy felt planning the wedding food as The Food Guy
Their multiple wedding cakes — including a giant tiramisu cake made partly for content
Sleeping together the night before the wedding and driving to the venue together
Including their four cats in the signature cocktail menu
The DIY details, faux flowers, and personal touches that made the wedding feel uniquely theirs

From emotional vows and viral food content to a three-foot tiramisu cake, this episode goes behind the scenes of the wedding their followers couldn’t stop talking about.

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In The City's Andrea Denver on Fatherhood, Bravo Drama-Free Love & His DREAM Italian Wedding Jul 09, 2026

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Welcome back to Weddings-ish with Jove!

Bravo fans, this one's for you! 🇮🇹 Andrea Denver — Summer House, Winter House, and In The City alum — joins Jove with his wife Lexi Sundin to talk baby names, bilingual parenting, and the Italian castle wedding everyone's still talking about.

Andrea and Lexi open up about:
Expecting their first baby (a girl!) due early September
Why they're keeping the baby's name a secret until she's born
Raising a bilingual baby between Italian and English
Their stress-free wedding planning process (yes, really)
Inside their Lake Garda castle wedding — the flowers, the 10-hour Italian aperitivo, and their first dance timed to fireworks
What it's really like filming Bravo's In The City vs. Winter House and Summer House
Andrea's secret to staying in shape (hint: it involves a jump rope)

If you loved their love story on Bravo, this episode goes even deeper into the real relationship behind the cameras.

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Coming Out in a Persian Family, Getting Married in Oaxaca | Alix Trager & Zoya Royan Jun 25, 2026

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Welcome back to Weddings-ish with Jove!

Today Jove is joined in studio by Alix Trager and Zoya Royan — newlyweds, content creators, and one of the most magnetic couples on the internet. Alix is the Persian-American creator known as "the internet's fruit peeler" whose viral videos have racked up tens of millions of views. Zoya is the author behind the free coming-out e-book It's Not a Big Deal, written for anyone navigating queer identity within a cultural or religious family. Together they share everything: from a Hinge prompt about orange wine, to a breakup at Wisdom Tree, to a three-day destination wedding in Oaxaca that wove Persian tradition and Mexican culture into something entirely their own.

They get candid about coming out later in life, the healing work that had to happen before either of them was ready for real love, and what shifting your energy actually looks like in practice. Then: every detail of the wedding. A Oaxaca celebration timed to Día de los Muertos. A Persian wishing well seating chart honoring loved ones who had passed. Laser-printed menus on fresh flour tortillas. A suit made from actual vintage Persian rug fragments. And a Persian knife dance Alix reclaimed — ending with her father as the final surprise.
In this episode:

- Coming out as a Persian woman and the decade of living a double life before telling family
- The Hinge match over orange wine that neither of them actually loves
- The Wisdom Tree breakup — and what happened when Alix came back down the mountain
- A three-day destination wedding in Oaxaca timed to Día de los Muertos
- Laser-printed menus on fresh flour tortillas, printed on-site the hour before dinner
- A wedding suit made from actual vintage Persian rug fragments
- Reclaiming the Persian knife dance — and the surprise final dancer
- Anxious-avoidant attachment, healing in isolation vs. in relationship, and letting go

Whether you're here for the love story, the wedding inspo, or proof that letting go at the top of a mountain can change everything — this one is for you.
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Losing His Sight, Finding His Person & Laughing Through All of It | Matthew & Paul Castle Jun 11, 2026

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Welcome back to Weddings-ish with Jove!

Today Jove is joined by Matthew and Paul Castle — the couple the internet fell completely in love with — right on their ten-year anniversary. From matching on Grindr across the US-Canada border, to an immigration attorney accidentally moving them in together three months into dating, to a rooftop wedding in a tiny Mexican fishing village with a 12-piece mariachi band they specifically said they didn't want — Matthew and Paul share every detail.

They take us inside their December 2019 wedding at Casa Arco Iris — the rooftop bed and breakfast in Sayulita run by a gay couple who became their unofficial wedding planners, the rainbow-tiled infinity pool, and why they originally planned zero photos, zero music, and zero fuss. Plus what actually happened: a last-minute photographer they now regret, and an all-female mariachi band that filled every inch of the rooftop and sang their hearts out despite Matthew's very specific ""no singing"" request.

They also get candid about Paul's retinitis pigmentosa — the genetic condition that has taken 95% of his vision — the emotional TikTok Matthew posted about grieving that loss, and how a procreate tablet brought illustration back into Paul's life and sparked a children's book series now six books deep.

In this episode:
- Matching on Grindr across the US-Canada border and the first date that was secretly a violin lesson and a painting class
- How a border guard's comment led to an immigration attorney and an accidental move-in — three months into dating
- The rooftop wedding at Casa Arco Iris in Sayulita, Mexico
- The 12-piece mariachi band they did not request (who sang anyway)
- Paul's retinitis pigmentosa diagnosis and what vision loss actually looks like
- How the pandemic sent two broke artists to TikTok — and the video that went viral
- The Pan Grooms children's book series, six books in and self-published
- Real love advice at the ten-year mark

Whether you're here for the love story, the wedding inspo, or just to be reminded that the best relationships are full of laughter and the occasional uninvited mariachi band — this one's for you.

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Brooke Hyland's Wedding: The Dance Moms Reunion, DIY Details & the Proposal She Never Saw Coming May 28, 2026

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Welcome back to Weddings-ish with Jove!

Today Jove is joined by Brooke Hyland — the Dance Moms star we all grew up watching — who was recently married in Florida in what can only be described as one of the most thoughtfully detailed weddings out there. From dancing at Abby Lee Miller's studio at age three to filming Dance Moms at 11, to her viral "Summer Love Song" reunion on her own dance floor with the entire cast, Brooke shares it all.

She opens up about her surprise Mother's Day proposal, the four-week-old nails she didn't know she'd be photographed with, and her Type-A bride era — Pinterest boards, Canva docs, Cricut place cards, DIY gelato cups, and a no-rain-backup-plan she simply manifested into a perfect February day. Plus which Dance Moms castmates were there, the real reason Maddie Ziegler couldn't make it, and the sunrise vow-reading on the hotel balcony that was just the two of them.

In this episode:

- Almost quitting dance for cheerleading right before Dance Moms came along

- Her mom's secret history dancing for Abby Lee Miller's mom

- The surprise proposal and the four-week-old nails

- Destination wedding at La Casa Toscana — the venue she found on TikTok

- The Dance Moms castmates who were there — and the Maddie Ziegler truth

- The "Summer Love Song" dance floor moment no one saw coming

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