My Wedding Website Was Gina Loves Pizza

Four years later, it's the new name of my Substack

Gina Loves Pizza made my wedding guests and me smile 4 years ago, and it still does now. I guess I never really let it go…

The Fifth Course was my entry into Substack, and I loved every second of the journey. But I felt myself getting really constrained by my own parameters. It was guides, and literally, what comes after the meal.

I started to free-write, and that’s what started a conversation with myself and with others. My actual life refuses to stay inside the meal. It spills. It always has. So with a bit of a pause, a touch of a reset, and a new shiny name and logo, I am rebranding to Gina Loves Pizza. And if you know me… I feel like you might agree this name suits me better.

What’s not changing is me. Same voice, same way of seeing things, same person you’ve been letting into your inbox this whole time. If you liked it as The Fifth Course, you’ll like it as Gina Loves Pizza. It’s the same here, maybe just wearing a better outfit and a very raw voice.

What I learned in the last year of diving into Substack: the biggest lesson is that writing is a different muscle. Writing needs to happen when you’re feeling creative and have thoughts flowing. Writing never worked for me when I forced myself to do it, and even less so when I forced myself to stay in the boxes I’d made for myself.

This rebrand comes with new territory. I’m going to focus on an ingredient a month. Thoughts, opinions, recipes, recommendations, all built around that ingredient. Then I’ll give you the moodboard and clickable links I’m pairing with it. Fashion, table settings, kids’ books and clothes, and again, that mood that lives in my head.

A playlist per month is staying. Because why would it leave??

And I’m keeping my essays. Once a month, I’ll write about an honest idea or topic I’m feeling or going through, or something others have brought to my attention.

This shift is ultimately meant to be more true to myself. Because let’s face it, for me and most, if you’re true to yourself, that’s when the best product or work flows.

So four years later… Gina Loves Pizza returns to this mini-universe of mine!

Pull up a chair. Or don’t. Thank you so much for being here and following along the chaos I call life ❤️

Here's August's playlist (a tad early but dive in)!

I will be posting the first seasonal sub a week before August to get ahead of a few recommendations and recipes! See you next week

xx

Gina