‘Love Is Blind’ couples who are still together

EEveryone likes a good meeting. And what’s more fun than talking to a stranger through a wall? The seventh season of Love is blind premieres on Netflix on Wednesday. The popular reality dating show has led to many marriages, but many more heartbreaks since its premiere in 2020.

Set in Washington, DC, this season features 29 singles who, like the show’s previous participants, have all entered the pods looking for a connection with someone they can’t see. Ultimately, they must choose whether to marry the person they are engaged to so they can see unseen. The show is an ‘experiment’, as hosts Nick and Vanessa Lachey often say, focusing on the age-old question: is love really blind. But does the experiment work? Here are the couples from the show who said yes at the altar and are still together.

Season 1, Atlanta

Lauren Speed-Hamilton, 36, and Cameron Hamilton, 34, an interracial couple, stole the audience’s hearts when they became the first couple to get engaged on the show, which aired in February 2020. The two are still in bliss today, and renewed their vows on their five-year anniversary in November 2023.

“I believe in this experiment that takes away the confounding variables of ethnicity, race, background and the most important one is physical appearance,” Cameron said on the show. “None of that matters.”

But the couple wasn’t the only couple to tie the knot during the first season.

Amber Pike, 32, and Matt Barnett, 33, also said “Yes,” and are still together. “Half a decade ago I somehow convinced @atypischeamber to marry me. Little did she know that she would have to put up with all my antics. 5 years of love, laughter and terrible dad jokes,” Barnett said in an Instagram anniversary post. Thank you for being my partner in crime, my rock, and for laughing at my poor attempts at being funny.

Season 2, Chicago

Unfortunately, none of the couples who met on season 2 of the reality show, which aired in February 2022, are still together. 34-year-old Jarrette Jones and 30-year-old Iyanna McNeely chose to get married in the series finale, but finalized their divorce in November 2022. Danielle Ruhl, 31, and Nick Thompson, 39, also got married on the show , but have since gone their separate ways.

“The past few weeks have been particularly challenging for me. Like many of us who experience a loss or life-changing event, we experience cycles of grief as we navigate our emotions,” Thompson wrote in an Instagram post about the couple’s separation in September 2022. “I am grateful for this experience , the lessons we have learned. those that came, and those that are yet to come. I am devastated that my marriage ended. Deep in my heart I know I did my best and gave it everything I had.”

Season 3, Dallas

The third season of Love is blindwhich premiered in October 2022, saw two couples get married. Alexa Lemieux, 30, and Brennon Lemieux, 34, became fan favorites as their on-screen love blossomed. Not only are they still married, they have also become parents since getting married on the show. The couple announced their bundle of joy in an exclusive interview with PEOPLEand confirmed the arrival of their child in an Instagram post last August.

Twenty-eight-year-old Colleen Reed and thirty-year-old Matt Bolton also said yes at the altar in the season three finale, and are still married. Bolton was criticized during the season for his treatment of Reed, and the couple raised eyebrows when they chose to live apart after the show ended. However, they have since taken that step and announced during the season 6 reunion that they have moved in together in Dallas.

“God sent me this angel in a very unorthodox way. Allowed us to learn and grow by taking on challenges but also opening up completely to each other and we fell in love,” Bolton wrote in an Instagram post in November 2022. “Love is never easy and it takes work, but I wouldn’t want it with anyone else.”

Season 4, Seattle

For some couples in season 4 of Love is blindwhich aired in March 2023, did not happen without disorder. After Zack Goytowski, 34, ended his first engagement to Irina Solomonova, he married Bliss Poureetezadi-Goytowski, 35, on the show. He had dated both women in the pods. The two have also expanded their family, welcoming a daughter earlier this year.

“Two years ago today, as we sat on the phone and were about to make the craziest decision of our lives in front of all our friends and family, I could never have imagined where we would be today,” Goytowski said in an Instagram post from May. . “The only certainty I had was the love I felt in my heart for you, that I had found what I had been looking for all my life. That’s all I needed.”

Kwame Appiah, 34, and Chelsea Griffin Appiah, 32, also remain married. The couple told Tudum about their struggle to integrate each other’s lives, lifestyles and families. Appiah’s mother had shown disapproval of their relationship on Love is blind, and did not attend their wedding. But the couple has worked to build that relationship and happily celebrated their two-year wedding anniversary in May.

The couple shared a touching message on June 12, the anniversary of the 1967 Supreme Court decision Lovingly to Virginia, which made interracial marriages possible in the US. “It’s crazy to think how far we have come as a society. That not so long ago different races could not marry or live together,” the couple wrote in the joint post. “We wanted to take a moment to celebrate. We appreciate the progress we have already made and hope to contribute to the progress from now on. Love always conquers.”

Finally, another fan favorite, Brett Brown, 37, and Tiffany Pennywell Brown, 38, are also still together. After getting married on the show, the Portland couple has had many adventures together, including vacations to Japan and Jamaica. “We met in the most unexpected way imaginable, but we wouldn’t have wanted it any other way,” the couple wrote in a joint Instagram post in April 2023. “This is us, this is our story. Meet the Browns!”

Season 5, Houston

Despite the age difference and some drama during their on-screen romance in October 2023 due to 33-year-old Lydia Velez Gonzalez’s previous relationship with another contestant, Velez Gonzalez and 26-year-old James ‘Milton’ Johnson IV have been dating ever since stayed together. make the decision Love is blind.

“It’s been almost two years since we said ‘yes’ on that magical journey. Every day with you feels like a new chapter in the greatest love story ever told,” Jonson wrote in an anniversary post. “You are more than just my love; you are my heart, my strength, my everything. I am so proud and forever grateful to call you my wife. I love you, always and forever.”

Season 6, Charlotte

In the most recent season of Love is blindwhich premiered on Valentine’s Day in 2024, only one happy couple said yes at the altar: Johnny McIntyre, 28, and Amy Cortés, also 28. The North Carolina-based couple is still happily married.

“Last year, when I married you, I thought you were perfect, but when I saw you tackling everything life had to throw at you this year: the release of LIB, medical scares, stepping away from your job, a starting a new career in a completely different field, not to mention all the traveling – was nothing short of amazing,” McIntyre wrote in a post in honor of his wife’s birthday.