By Cole Delbyck | Thursday, October 31, 2024 | 20 min read
In the age of superficial swiping, everlasting love is hard to find — and even harder to hold onto. Hmm, if only there was an experiment that cut through the noise and streamlined practically everything about modern dating…
Bringing soulmates together since 2020, Love Is Blindhas strived to help countless singles around the country (and now, the world) on the hunt for their happily ever. How? Well, the relationships forged are based on purely emotional connections, as the couples get engaged without ever laying eyes on each other. From the pods to the altar and beyond, everyone who enters the experiment embarks on a life-changing journey to discover whether love is truly blind.
While the participants, cities, and even the glowing blue wall may have changed over time, the answer remains the same: yes. And we have the love stories to prove it, as many of the couples who’ve said “I do” (and one who took an even more, well, unconventional approach) have gone the distance. So who’s still together all these years later? Read below to check back in with every single U.S.-based couple starting from Season 1 to Season 7 to see where they stand today.
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Season 1
Lauren and Cameron
STATUS: STILL TOGETHER
After feeling an instant spark in the pods, Lauren and Cameron were the first to get engaged. They eventually tied the knot and are still living their happily ever after.
In November 2023, the couple rang in their fifth-year anniversary by renewing their vows in Las Vegas. “Every day feels like I fall more and more in love with Cam, which I didn’t even know was possible,” Lauren said at the time. The two regularly gush about their romance on social media, as well as on their YouTube channel, Hangin’ with the Hamiltons, where they answer questions about their relationship and give fans updates about what their lives look like now. Lauren also offered her take on the journeys that unfolded in subsequent Love Is Blind chapters as a co-host of Seasons 1 and 2 of the We Have the Receipts podcast.
In an Instagram post, Cameron shared a picture for Lauren’s birthday, writing, “You have shown me a depth of love I didn’t know existed. I’m so grateful you were born and that you chose to spend this life with me, through the storms and the sunshine. You make this world brighter.”
In October 2024, the couple launched a podcast called The Love Seat, which “dives deep into the real stories and complexities of love.” The first episode’s guests were none other than Amber and Barnett, who’ve also been happily married since Season 1.
Amber and Barnett
STATUS: STILL TOGETHER
All these years later, Amber and Barnett are still going strong. Ever since the couple said “I do,” they have continued to revel in their love and celebrate life together. The couple reached a major milestone in November, as they too marked their sixth-year anniversary.
“5 years later and somehow I really do love you more today than the day we said ‘I do,’” Amber wrote on Instagram in 2023, alongside a photo from their wedding day. “Don’t get me wrong, every day hasn’t been perfect and Lord knows there is plenty that we have gotten wrong over the years, but the most important thing that I’m so thankful that we’ve gotten right is how much we are willing to work for each other to keep growing together.” Barnett responded in kind with a sweet post of his own, thanking her for “being my rock, and laughing at my poor attempts at trying to be funny,” among other things. “Here’s to a lifetime of more questionable decisions, crazy adventures, and acting like adults when we are just kids in fancy clothes,” he wrote. “Happy 5th Anniversary to the love of my life!”
On October 8, the couple appeared as the first guests on Lauren and Cameron’s The Love Seatpodcast, where Amber and Barnett broke the news that they’re expecting their first child.
Season 3
Alexa and Brennon
STATUS: STILL TOGETHER
After their very first date, Brennon knew Alexa was the one, but the two decided to stay in the experiment to experience the full “magic” of the pods. The couple went on to tie the knot in a beautiful wedding and now they’ve been married for over three years. “It’s been absolutely amazing. I recommend marriage to everybody,” Alexa tells Tudum. “Find your person, find your one. Don’t get married to just anybody.”
Married life has only brought the pair closer, as Alexa says the transition has been “natural,” while Brennon is simply happy he has half a closet to himself in their second bedroom. “We made a deal when we got married that anytime we’re going out, she gets to dress me because… I don’t have good fashion sense,” Brennon jokes. “And then anytime our wedding song comes on, she has to dance with me.” The song is “Heaven” by Kane Brown, and Alexa and Brennon stop whatever they’re doing to slow dance when they hear it. Yes — even if they’re driving. (They pull over and sway by the side of the road if necessary.)
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Alexa and Brennon have had babies on the mind from the start, and in January, their wishes came true: The pair are currently expecting their first child together. The path, however, hasn’t exactly been easy. Alexa revealed at the Season 6 reunion that she experienced fertility issues. “We weren’t sure it was ever going to happen for us,” she says. “I can’t wait to have our love be physical in a baby.” Brennon calls Alexa his “rock” throughout the process, adding: “It’s been an emotional journey for both of us.”
On July 31, 2024, the couple welcomed the arrival of their first child — a daughter that they’ve named Vienna Ziva. “She has mommy’s hair and daddy’s dimples and we couldn’t be more in love,” they captioned in a joint Instagram post.
Colleen and Matt
STATUS: STILL TOGETHER
Colleen and Matt are still on the same page — and now they finally live under the same roof. After years of living apart following their nuptials in Season 3, the couple have moved in together. At the Season 6 reunion, the duo were more than happy to announce that they’ve taken the plunge. “We have moved in together into a beautiful town home,” Colleen says.
The process took longer than they both expected, as Colleen says they “weren’t money-wise ready” to give up their leases at the time. Both explain their lease schedules didn’t initially line up properly, and Colleen didn’t want to “screw over” her roommates by abandoning them. So they decided instead to spend all week together — “besides Monday, laundry day,” Colleen jokes — between their two places. As Colleen and Matt say, they got married in an “unorthodox” way — so they’re doing marriage in a similarly “unorthodox” manner.
But now they’ve entered a different phase of married life as they settle into their home together in Dallas. In other news, Colleen has continued to focus on her dance career, with Matt sharing that she recently starred as Princess Aurora in a production of Sleeping Beauty. “It was the most beautiful thing I’ve seen in my entire life,” he says.
In September, Colleen shared photos on Instagram of her and Matt celebrating their friends’ weddings — laying to rest any rumors that they’d separated.
Season 4
Bliss and Zack
STATUS: STILL TOGETHER
In the words of the incomparable Lee Ann Womack, Zack and Bliss haven’t lost that sense of wonder for each other. Since tying the knot after Zack’s short-lived engagement to Irina, he and Bliss have settled into life as husband and wife. In fact, Zack says that he’s “so much more in love with Bliss than I ever was when we got married.” For Bliss, their unprecedented, bumpy courtship unfolded exactly how it was supposed to. “He’s such a good man,” she tells Tudum. “He tried to follow through on his word and, even though it was a mistake, he was going to try to go at it with respect and care.”
After splitting time between each other’s places, they’re now living in Zack’s apartment in Seattle, with plans of finding a bigger home together in the future. While Zack says he’s never lived with anyone before, Bliss says cohabitating has been remarkably “easy,” especially given his habit of cooking for her every night. And they’ve got the support of married friends, like Kwame and Chelsea, whom they hang out with frequently.
Looking ahead, both are on the same page when it comes to their next steps, which include planning their much-delayed European honeymoon, buying a home together, and expanding their family. In November 2023, they announced that they are expecting a child together. “For those of you who might not know, we’re having a baby girl,” the couple shared via video at the Season 6 reunion. And they’ll have the support of the pod squad on their journey into parenthood, as Kwame, Chelsea, Tiffany, Brett, and Marshall, among others, were all in attendance at their recent baby shower.
The couple welcomed their first child together — a baby girl named Galileo Terri Rayne — in April 2024. “We are so in love with our precious, beautiful baby girl,” they told People at the time. “We are forever changed and are so blessed to spend the rest of our lives loving her. She is our moon, our stars, the center of our universe.”
At the Season 7 reunion, they brought their little one along, introducing Galileo to hosts Nick and Vanessa Lachey. “We feel like proud grandparents. I mean, your foster grandparents,” Vanessa jokes.
Chelsea and Kwame
STATUS: STILL TOGETHER
Directly following Season 4, Kwame and Chelsea said married life has “not been easy,” but they were staying focused on “finding happiness in the little things.” Their first step as husband and wife was moving into a new apartment in Seattle once Kwame agreed to leave Portland. As they’ve blended friends, families, and lifestyles, both agree that there’s been “a lot of growth and lots of growing pains” so far. “This is a marriage. We are real people,” Chelsea tells Tudum. “We have jobs, we have stressors, and the speed of this process is intense.”
The couple is moving at a relatively steady pace when it comes to building a relationship with Kwame’s mother, who didn’t initially approve of their marriage. Since the experiment ended, Kwame and his mother are “getting to a better place every day” and have taken major steps, including his mother’s first visit with Chelsea. “My mom first had to be OK with me making this decision before she would think, ‘OK, now let me accept this whole new person into my family,’ ” he says. Chelsea, meanwhile, has learned to “have a lot of grace for [Kwame’s mother] and for her journey,” given how their nontraditional love story is “unknown to that generation.” The good news? Chelsea’s become best friends with Kwame’s sister, who she says has been a “gift” to their family and a “buffer to this experience with [Kwame’s] mom.”
Looking ahead, Chelsea and Kwame feel hopeful about “putting together all of these pieces” into the “massive puzzle” that is their future. “This has been transformative,” Chelsea says. “We’ve both grown so much and we’re really, really proud of where we are now and the foundation that we’ve built.”
Life has only gotten sweeter since then, with Chelsea changing jobs, granting the couple some long-awaited flexibility. In fact, Chelsea now helps cast Love Is Blind, which she can do from just about anywhere. “I get to talk to brave, bold, courageous singles all over the United States that may make the leap that we all did,” she says at the Season 6 reunion. As for Kwame, he shares that Chelsea has “bonded really closely” with his nieces and nephews during their trips to the East Coast. “We’re doing great,” Chelsea adds. “We are so proud and happy after almost two years of marriage.”
Tiffany and Brett
STATUS: STILL TOGETHER
Tiffany and Brett’s happily ever after began with her moving into his Portland, Oregon, apartment, which she notes now has room for both of their shoe collections. While married life is not without its hiccups, both agree that their “relationship has only gotten stronger” since we last saw them at the altar. “I love that my love for him has just grown deeper and deeper,” she tells Tudum. “I wake up every morning and I’m just so thankful. Like, oh my gosh, I’m still pinching myself that I found him on a TV show.”
Brett, for one, has been surprised at just how well their lives have continued to meld, as Tiffany’s tried to establish her own friendships, while building relationships with his “core group.” When they’re not traveling around the country or visiting Brett’s family in North Carolina, life for these newlyweds is “very normal,” he says, and includes a once-a-week date night minimum. Communication around any issues that do arise is key, but the couple has found a way of resolving them by, as they say, “making sure that we’re working to be better people for each other.” “Ultimately, we’ve been doing as great as we could’ve ever hoped to have been doing at this point in time,” says Brett. “I’m happy. I’m very happy.”
Since then, the couple’s bond has only gotten stronger — Tiffany shares at the Season 6 reunion that Brett is “doing great” as a husband. She also reveals that they have plans to travel to Japan in the coming months before putting down roots in Portland. “We’re actually looking for homes right now,” she says. “It’ll be our first home, so I’m excited to get that started.”
In a joint Instagram post in September 2024, Tiffany and Brett announced that the couple have become homeowners — with fans speculating in the comments that there’s now plenty of space for a his-and-hers sneaker closet.
Season 5
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Milton and Lydia
STATUS: STILL TOGETHER
Since their Season 5 nuptials, Milton and Lydia are stronger than ever. “Marriage has been great. It’s so nice to have that person, that best friend who is going to be there for you,” Lydia tells Tudum. “We have each other’s back and that is something that you cannot put a price on.”
These days they are focused on their future and building a life together as husband and wife. Right now, that’s meant navigating career changes, as both have landed new jobs since the wedding. Milton has stepped into a managerial role at a new company, which provides a better work-life balance (and pays for his graduate school education). “He started school this week and he asks me, ‘Babe, do you think this is right or not?’” Lydia says. “He knows, yes, my wife is smart and she can help me, which makes me feel fulfilled because I can be useful.” Meanwhile Lydia is making her own career moves in a new job where she can flex her social skills. “I’m a social person, so having that human interaction is key [for] my motivation aspect and career development,” she says.
But what hasn’t changed is the rock-solid foundation of their relationship, which has been tested time and time again. “[Milton] loves me purely for who I am, as I love him,” Lydia says. “The other day I was like, ‘Oh my God, this is a lot,’ and he told me, ‘Don’t worry, at the end of the day we got each other.’ ”
Season 6
Amy and Johnny
STATUS: STILL TOGETHER
Amy and Johnny are basking in the glow of both commitment and compromise after tying the knot. Since we last saw them, the two say their love has “kept growing and growing” over their first year of marriage. “When I look back at [the experiment], I love her so much more now than in the pods or when we were first married,” Johnny tells Tudum. Amy adds that they both have “grown so much as individuals and as a couple.” The first step? Moving in together. “He paid to break my lease and then we just went into it,” says Amy.
Family ties have only strengthened their bond, as their respective broods have “clicked perfectly” ever since the wedding. “My family is obsessed with John. My dad and him are bros and they call [each other] all the time,” Amy shares. “It’s the relationship that I always wanted for my dad to have with my husband.” Johnny accompanied Amy’s loved ones on a trip to France, and she later spent the holidays with his family. “It’s so nice being able to just go to her parents’ house, see her family, and just have that community over there,” Johnny adds.
As for starting their own family one day, the two say they’re in a “continuous conversation” about having children three to five years from now. “I am still firm on my stance that I don’t want any birth control at the moment, but that’s something that can change in the future,” Amy explains. “When the time comes, I’m sure that I’m going to end up [using] some sort of birth control.” For now, the couple is most focused on strengthening their foundations before taking any major next steps. “We’re still young and our relationship is still young, too, so we want to make sure that’s going to be growing and flourishing before we welcome a child into this world,” Johnny says.
As of October 2024, the couple’s love is still unwavering — Johnny and Amy made an appearance at the Austin City Limits music festival and each donned matching jean jackets with the other’s name embroidered on them.
Season 7
Taylor and Garrett
STATUS: STILL TOGETHER
During the experiment, Taylor and Garrett — who both work in science — experienced a palpable chemistry between them that they couldn’t ignore. The very first pair to get engaged in Season 7 are still together a year later.
Since becoming husband and wife, Taylor and Garrett have been enjoying a life of adventure. At the Season 7 reunion, the couple share numerous photos from their travels abroad. When the two are not globetrotting, they’re in Fredericksburg, Virginia — although Garrett breaks the news that they’re “ironically enough, looking at moving to DC,” the city where their love story began. It’s a move that Garrett is especially grateful for, as splitting time in Taylor’s hometown of San Diego has become difficult for him.
“I wanted to give that to Taylor so bad, and we tried. Her being incredibly understanding and the patient wife that she is, she agreed we [could try to] do something closer to home, so DC seemed like the next natural fit,” Garrett says. “We’re excited about starting a life there together and seeing where it goes.”
“When you get married, you become a unit. Home is with Garrett, so I’m excited to figure out this next chapter with you,” she tells her husband.
Co-host Vanessa Lachey brings up the topic of what she affectionately calls “the glow-up of Garrett.” “You are going viral on the internet right now with the hair, with the five o’clock shadow, and you modeled at Fashion Week,” Vanessa says. “Is this the wifey effect?”
Garrett admits that he’s always had an interest in fashion. “[B]eing married to a very fashionable and beautiful woman, it felt like I’ve finally found somebody worth looking good for, worth paying attention to my looks,” Garrett says. “She opened up that door for me, and we’re running with it.”
Ashley and Tyler
STATUS: STILL TOGETHER
Since tying the knot, Ashley and Tyler have continued to deepen their love and commitment to each other — despite facing challenges out of their control in the real world. At the Season 7 reunion, Ashley admits to longing for the private time she spent with Tyler before the episodes were released. “Boy, I do miss that bubble,” Ashley says, referring to the online chatter that has circled the pair.
During the filming of Season 7, Tyler revealed to Ashley that he had previously donated sperm to a close friend so that she and her wife could start a family. Since then, that couple has separated and Tyler has “stepped in, voluntarily” to support his friend and become more present in the children’s lives, causing fans to suspect that Tyler and Ashley’s marriage was on the rocks.
“We [as a society] have a hard time understanding anything [that’s considered] taboo, anything that’s out of our norm,” Ashley says. For Tyler, having grown up as a child of divorce in a single-parent household, “it was very hard for him to remove himself and not be involved.”
“When I said ‘I do,’ I said ‘I do’ to all of it. This is a once-in-a-lifetime kind of love. This is a rarity and it’s something that is worth risking anything for,” Ashley continues.
For now, the couple is navigating married life post–Love Is Blind day by day and basking in companionship as soulmates. “There has never been a day where [Ashley] hasn’t said, ‘I love you.’ I’ve never experienced unconditional love to this extent,” Tyler gushes. “She reassures me every time, ‘I’m not going anywhere. I love you no matter what.’ And for me, that’s the first time ever in my life I’m experiencing this. It’s big.”
Ashley feels similarly when it comes to Tyler’s overwhelming devotion to her. “I’ve never felt so centered [as] I do when I’m with him. The foundation that we have is so deep and beautiful, and we learned a lot of different things along the way, like dropping pride and dropping arguments, picking and choosing your battles, things like that. I definitely love the stillness and the calmness that he brings,” Ashley says.
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