The Food Guy Got Married! Inside Tommy Winkler and Jess Pappas’ Viral Wedding

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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