The Love Is Blind Season 3 wedding episodes are finally here and fans are desperate to see which of the couples will say "I do" and which will say "I don't" at the altar.
The latest edition of the Netflix dating show, which sees contestants date multiple potential suitors and get engaged without ever meeting face to face, has had viewers gripped since it returned to screens in October.
Now, after weeks of ups and downs and multiple relationship dramas, it's time for the Season 3 couples, such as Cole Barnett and Zanab Jaffrey, and Bartise Bowden and Nancy Rodriguez, to decide whether or not the experiment has worked and if they will marry their partners from the show.
The night before the final wedding episode was released on Netflix, Newsweek spoke to Love Is Blind creator, and founder of production company Kinetic Content, Chris Coelen about how the weddings are organized, including who pays for them.
Newsweek has everything you need to know about what goes on behind the scenes at the Love Is Blind weddings.
Who Pays for the 'Love Is Blind' Weddings?
Coelen confirmed that the Love Is Blind weddings are paid for by the show.
He told Newsweek that everything is provided for couple but said: "If there's anything over and above what we would normally do then [the couples] are most certainly welcome to do that."
Where Are the 'Love Is Blind' Weddings Filmed?
The Love Is Blind Season 3 weddings, which are real weddings, were all held in the same venue in Fort Worth, Texas.
The venue, called Lone Star Mansion, is booked out months in advance by Love Is Blind—before they even know how many couples are engaged and will need to use it.
Coelen explained that they have to book it out way ahead of schedule because, as anyone who has tried to organize a wedding before knows, wedding venues get booked up very quickly.
"It's hard to book a wedding venue two weeks out so we, ahead of time, make sure we have a really nice venue that can accommodate the weddings," he said. "We don't know how many weddings there are going to be, so we have it booked for a period of time. It's a little scary but it makes it fun!"
Coelen said that the show "really takes into account the input of the couples" and incorporates, where they can, the contestants' "desires with regard to the decor, the flowers, the food, the music and whatever."
"It's their wedding so it's going to be in this venue that we've picked and there's a wedding date planned, and they know that going in, they know that, if they get engaged, four weeks later is their wedding," Coelen said.
"But you know SK [Alagbada] and Raven [Ross]'s wedding has very specific touches and you saw that [Season 2 couple] Deepti [Vempati] and Shake [Chatterjee]'s wedding [had their own touches] and Sal [Perez] had the mariachi band."
"Lots of people will want to do something—a certain type of food or cake—and we try to do that, within reason," he concluded.
As well as the wedding episodes, Love Is Blind has released its Season 3 reunion, which sees the couples get together once again to discuss the events of the season.
The reunion is as dramatic as you'd expect as the cast dissect the fallout from the shocking wedding episodes—and reveal which couples are still together now.
Love Is Blind Seasons 1-3 are available to stream on Netflix.
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