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Check Please! #16 Matrimony, Wedding Scammers & a Chat with Jason Stewart (@themjeans)
Welcome back to Check Please!In this episode, we sat down with How Long Gone co-host, professional DJ, avid foodie and married man Jason Stewart to share our thoughts on matrimony.Is your wedding day among the most joyous and moving occasions of a lifetime? Absolutely. Will the months leading up to it ruin you emotionally, financially, physically, and psychologically to a point that feels nearly beyond recovery? Maybe, yes, but that’s just showbiz, baby!Take if from three people who have recently done it. We’re chatting about all our wedding details, the folly of the wedding industry, what’s next for wedding influencers, getting divorced and then married again, the time Bella got scammed out of a wedding dress, why wedding DJs have such an attitude problem, cake fails, keys to a happy marriage and how to pull it all off on the big day.Thanks for reading early girl! This post is public so feel free to share it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bellacastillo.substack.com/subscribe
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Check Please! #15 Trends, 2025 Predictions & a Live Tarot Reading
Is it too late to say happy New Year?We’re back with a new episode on all things trendy — bemoaning what’s out and predicting what’s in for 2025, featuring the expert opinions of our friends Daniel Emilio Soares, the mind behind NYC’s chicest party spreads and founder of Alimentari Flaneur, Savannah Eden Bradley, one of fashion Twitter’s most brilliant minds and editor-in-chief of Haloscope Mag, and Clue Perfumery founders and tastemakers Caleb Vanden Boom & Laura Oberwetter.We get a vibe check on the new year with our friend Camille Guerin (aka @p0lar0idprinc3ss), polaroid photographer, tarot enthusiast and LA-based foodie as she does a live reading for us, and we highlight some of our favorite media from the last year. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bellacastillo.substack.com/subscribe
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Check Please! #14 Holidays, Canceled Christmas Songs & A Pimento Cheese Ball with a Certain Mystique
Seasons greetings!We’re back with a new episode, and we’re chatting about holiday traditions, getting passive aggressive with your family, how to be good at gifting and the single greatest Christmas song of all time. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bellacastillo.substack.com/subscribe
Welcome back to Check Please!In this fantasy-themed episode, we chat about some of our earliest food memories — the fictional dishes we read about and watched on TV. We name some of very real dishes that feel made up, and dish on the YA fiction we were obsessed with in adolescence. Josh shares some of his favorite video game soundtracks, Bella introduces you to an independent perfumer who makes fragrances fit for fairies and water nymphs, and we watch that one really horny Robert Pattinson for Dior homme commercial. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bellacastillo.substack.com/subscribe
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Check Please! #12 Autumn, Thanksgiving Hot Takes & Yo La Tengo Playing My Wedding (Nov. 12, 2024)
We are so back.And the seasons have changed since we last chatted. In this episode, we discuss all things autumn. We debate which apples are the best apples and whether pumpkin is under, over or correctly rated. We share our Thanksgiving takes and traditions, fight about whether Yo La Tengo is girl music or not, and talk about the time Josh catered a party that had gold-leaf covered suckling pig on the menu and Fiona Apple playing live piano. We even discover that they make Gilmore Girls towns in real life, that there really is apple cider in apple cider donuts and why Nico sings like that. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bellacastillo.substack.com/subscribe
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