Couples can’t see each other until they’ve already become engaged.
After the question is popped, couples meet and spend a few weeks living as an engaged couple.
As of this writing,four couples from “Love Is Blind” are still together.
However, on “Love Is Blind,” producers are adamant that love really is the main objective.
In other words, contestants have to be committed to the experiment.
Coelen explained that the team is very careful about choosing contestants who are willing to give it their all.
In fact, the casting team makes every contestant go through a lengthy73-question questionnaireto confirm people are serious.
Essentially, pods are rooms where couples can talk without seeing each other.
“The design was to just strip us down from our comfort level.”
Yikes, it certainly sounds like the living conditions were not exactly ideal!
However, the contestants didn’t exactly spend much time sleeping.
Show creator Chris Coelen explained to Netflix that they chose hotel rooms for later seasons.
To ensure contestants avoid sneaking peeks at each other, they are escorted to and from the pods.
That is, after all, the premise of the show.
However, the no-touching aspect doesn’t get as much attention.
There is no way for the couples to physically interact within the pods.
The dating pods are set up so that singles have no idea what the others look like.
The pods contain a large adjoining illuminated panel through which the contestants get to know each other.
“You’re truly flying blind.”
As Vanessa Lachey toldCBS News, this is done to encourage stronger emotional connections.
“When you take one of the senses away, the others are heightened.
This allows the singles to weed out people they’re not interested in.
“[The producers] would then use those rankings to figure out dates for the subsequent days.
It goes without saying that this intensive dating schedule can get a bit overwhelming.
“It’s the most dates I’ve ever been on in my life!”
Season 1 contestant Lexi Skipper exclaimed toCosmopolitan.
“We were essentially speed dating every meeting lasted for seven minutes.
I went on dates with EVERYONE.”
News, adding that people sometimes even spoke into “the wee hours of the morning.”
In total, that’s three weeks unplugged.
“Honestly, it was really nice,” Season 1 contestant Mark Cuevas toldEsquirein 2020.”
I wish I could do that again.
I need a phone timeout.”
According to producers, this rule is in place to ensure that contestants are completely focused on their dates.
While it may seem strict, for the most part, this rule seems to be working!
Otherwise, you wouldn’t."
“Everyone gets engaged on that one day.
And then the next day is the big reveal day,” she explained.
However, this rule was bent in Season 4.
In “Love Is Blind,” however, things are a little different.
After the couples become engaged, they set off for a luxe honeymoon of sorts.
As host Nick Lachey toldE!
News, this pre-wedding vacation is meant to give the couples a chance to connect, and quickly.
“There’s [nowhere] to hide.”
Some couples may even find it tempting to ask these people for advice.
However, it seems that this isn’t really allowed.
Sometimes, however, producers do step in to offer gentle suggestions about topics of conversation they want covered.
“The producers would bring up stuff like, ‘Hey, can you guys talk about race?’
Producer Chris Coelen backed this all up.
Unlike some other reality shows, producers on “Love Is Blind” seem to take a backseat role.
As fans of the show know, a lot of drama tends to go down at the weddings.
Sometimes contestants say no, even if they are still interested in dating the other person.
Just take SK and Raven from Season 3, for example.
“I mean, I had to stay,” she toldEntertainment Weekly.
“I definitely had a conversation about leaving and I wasn’t able to do that.
However, Chris Coelen toldVariety, “They don’thaveto go through with the wedding ceremony.”
This became evident in Season 4, whenone coupleended their engagement before getting to the altar.
Unlike Seasons 1-3 reunions, which were pretaped, the Season 4 reunion will be live.
