And identical to that… one other season of Love Is Blind is over. However don’t count on to verify again in on the {couples} of Love Is Blind Season 8 after Netflix seemingly canceled the “After the Altar” specials — which served as a post-season check-in and had been launched months after the unique season aired — beginning with Season 7.
“They mentioned they’re not doing that [anymore]. They mentioned it’s a artistic determination. It’s in all probability loads to plan,” Love Is Blind Season 7 star Taylor Josemans-Krause instructed StyleCaster whereas selling Love Is Blind’s limited-edition Delight Chocolate Lined Strawberry Creamer and Marriage ceremony Cake Creamer flavors with Worldwide Delight.
Taylor’s husband, Garrett Josemans-Krause, whom she obtained married to on Love Is Blind Season 7, doesn’t take the dearth of an “After the Altar” particular as a loss, nevertheless, contemplating he and different Love Is Blind alums can nonetheless share updates about their lives in different methods.
“It’s attention-grabbing. We’ve got our social media platforms, so we’re nonetheless open about sharing what we’re going by, what we’re doing and our marriage by our social media,” he mentioned.
After getting engaged and married on Love Is Blind, Taylor and Garrett are additionally wanting ahead to residing their stay off digital camera, together with a possible second proposal and marriage ceremony in non-public.
“We wish to [have our own wedding] when it looks like enjoyable,” Taylor mentioned. “ I’ve by no means met a bride who’s deliberate a marriage and didn’t wish to off herself, so I wish to do it when our households can actually be concerned and when now we have extra time to make it tremendous particular. I don’t know what the timeline is on that. I want to have a marriage the place I get to choose much more of issues and we’re in a position to do it on our timeline and much more folks could make it.”
Taylor and Garrett additionally defined their determination for each of them to take one another’s final names. “It’s a dialog began throughout the present, and I don’t suppose that they ended up airing it, as a result of we by no means gave closure on digital camera for like,” Garrett mentioned. “But it surely was three or 4 dates in that we had this dialog. Taylor introduced it initially and was like, ‘Properly, I like my final title, why do I’ve to offer it up?’ We began to dig into this query and the custom a bit extra. There’s some historical past right here, what’s that and why? Why am I snug saying, sure, it is advisable to hand over your final title, however I’m not snug giving up mine? Ultimately simply got here to the compromise that we needed to each have the identical final title, and for our children to have our identical final title.”
Taylor additionally defined how they got here up with the order of the final names. “I knew it was the norm for the girl to take the final title. For Garrett, it was nonetheless necessary to him. However he wasn’t like, ‘It needs to be this manner.’ He actually sat and gave time and a spotlight to it, however he nonetheless felt prefer it was necessary to him,” she mentioned. “When you have got a hyphenated final title, often the second title will get dropped typically, like, particularly with little children. We positively talked about it in that approach, and I used to be utterly OK with [having my name be second].”
Whereas Taylor and Garrett are not on Love Is Blind, they nonetheless have robust ties to the present, which is why they resolve to assist promote the present’s Blind Espresso Date Supply Contest in collaboration with Worldwide Delight.
“We’re very honored that we had been considered to be hosts in a roundabout way. We join over espresso on a regular basis. Garrett makes my espresso each morning. The Love Is Blind franchise, we owe loads to. We had been capable of finding one another by that, so I believe simply all of those little issues which can be form of particular to us,” Taylor mentioned.
Love Is Blind streams on Netflix.