The answer to that question is the same as it is for most reality shows. It's real...to some extent. When it comes to the pairing of the couples and the idea that these couples actually got engaged, this was 100-percent real, producers, contestants, and those who know the couples IRL are saying. In a recent Instagram exchange, Melissa Cuevas, sister of contestant Mark Cuevas, responded to a fan that "none" of the show is scripted, Life & Style Magazine reported.
And in fact, the show is reportedly so real that producers were worried they wouldn't have any couples to follow after the pod portion of the show was finished. "As a producer I was kind of nervous like, is anybody actually gonna get engaged?" series creator Chris Coelen told Entertainment Weekly . "Is anyone going to make it to the altar? And, in the end, we actually had more couples get engaged than we were able to follow on the show."
But, as with all reality shows, you have to consider both how big of a role producers played in the contestants' decisions and how heavily edited these shows are. (Hey, they've got to keep you tuning in somehow.) As fans can see in the Love Is Blind finale , producers do help coax contestants into certain conversations by asking specific questions in order to keep the drama moving.
That said, forcing someone to get married who doesn't really want to seems outrageous even for reality TV. In the end, you might have to put away your cynicism and believe that love may actually be blind, after all.
