Love is Blind (Love Is Blind)

It's the moment you've all been waiting for.

The chance to have each of your burning questions answered.

And you're in for a treat,

'cause here tonight, we have several surprise guests.

That's right. We have someone who's been here since the beginning.

One of our most talked-about brides from season one is now a wife.

We'll also be joined by our very first mom,

who wants to confront...

an ex-fiancé.

One couple who's back from Miami...

And the very first Love Is Blind baby.

So let's not wait a second longer.

Please welcome from Washington D.C...

Your favorites from Season 7 of Love Is Blind.

Taylor and Garrett.

Ashley and Tyler.

Marissa.

Ramses.

Hannah.

Nick.

Stephen.

Monica.

Alex.

And Tim.

- Hi! - What's up?

Get off your ducks.

Venmo your exes.

And wake up your napping loved ones.

'Cause the wait is over.

Welcome to the Love Is Blind Reunion !

Well, for some, this season was smooth sailing.

But for others, they had to be... they had to work out the kinks,

let's just say. And today, we're gonna talk about all of it.

Welcome, everyone, and say hello to our former participants

and some special VIP family members who are also joining us today.

- Hi, everybody. - Hi!

Welcome, welcome.

We're excited. We're gonna catch up with y'all in a little bit,

but thank you for being here as always.

And everyone, please do not worry.

Brittany, Leo, and Leo's Rolex

- are all here today. -

They'll be joining us momentarily. Nobody fret.

Along with many, many more surprises.

So Washington D.C. took us on quite a journey.

From flowers to flags.

DMs to REMs.

And matching science tattoos to the heartwarming "I do's,"

The "I do's," one of my favorite parts of every season.

I loved every second of it, and with that,

I wanna congratulate both of our married couples,

Taylor and Garrett and Ashley and Tyler.

- Congratulations. - Yes!

Did you guys coordinate the black and gold?

- No. - No, not at all.

- We always do this. - I know, we always match.

We're happy that your family got to join us today.

We have Fong and Tom. Mom and Dad.

- Hi, Mom and Dad. - Hi, Mom and Dad.

If only we could get tattoos of all the chemistry we felt watching this season.

- You could, Nick. - Too late. I can. You're right.

The chemistry pun, it's only good if it's used periodically.

- - Only the science people got it!

- I see what you did there. - No, seriously.

Taylor, is Garrett still the best catch of them all?

Of course he is. He makes me feel loved and comfortable

and shows up every day for me, and that's all you can really ask,

especially in these crazy, incredible circumstances.

- And he's my best friend. So, yeah. - Oh.

- That's the best. - It's the best.

Best to spend every day with your best friend.

And we're loving the new look. We've already alluded to it.

Is it safe to say we can call this "Taylor's version"?

- - No, no.

This is Garrett's glow up era, y'all.

Garrett, is it safe to say that she's filled a "Blank Space"?

- Here we go. - In your fashion world?

- Here we go. The dad jokes... - The puns are great.

The dad jokes are coming in hot.

If you don't like it, just "Shake It Off."

- No, they're great, I love it. -

Well, in all seriousness, though, we talked a little bit about it earlier,

and we learned this from you on the season.

Avid fisherman. So have you had a chance to take Taylor fishing yet?

Oh, yeah, I had to. That was the real test, obviously.

- She passed? - Oh, yeah. Flying colors.

We actually have photos of this...

- Oh, yeah. - This real test. Can we check it out?

- - Oh, yeah.

- Okay. I think... - You look great, baby. Yeah.

Well, you guys said grab it by the eyes.

I was like, "Ha-ha-ha!" And you're like, "No, grab it by the eyes."

And I was like, "But I have long nails."

So the eyes and the nails, that's how you hold 'em?

- Yeah. You guys come. We'll show you. - You don't have to do it, but, yep.

Well, speaking of inviting people fishing,

I have some other photos from another very special fishing trip that you took here.

Let's take a look at those.

- Guys! - Very cool.

I love fishing. Why wasn't I invited to this bromance?

So, Tyler, was this a one-and-done fishing experience,

- or are you hooked now? - No, I had a great time.

I told him, "Let's go again." I was surprised by how much fun I had.

We had a ball, all three of us.

You said you were good at everything in the pods, so I was testing it out.

- Did I get a fish? - Well, yeah, something like that.

- - It's not the size that counts.

- Thank you! -

Tyler and Ashley, so happy to have you guys here today.

And it's hard to believe, but you've been married almost a year now.

Wow. Congrats again.

So, bring us up to speed. How's it going? How's everything been?

It's been great. Honestly. This year has been a lot of laughter,

a lot of growth, a lot of love.

- A learning experience. - Mm-hmm.

We always talk about how important it is once you get married,

before the world finds out, that time that you have.

How crucial it is to the married couples to solidify that foundation,

because once the show is out there and your story is out there,

then everyone wants to chime in.

Boy, do I miss that bubble. That bubble was nice. Yeah.

I'm gonna get into that. Tyler, you had spoken on the show,

and everybody was shocked when you revealed that you had donated sperm

to help a friend and her wife have children.

- Yep. - And then, since then,

there has been online chatter about your involvement in these children's life

and it being more than you had initially let on.

So can you now clarify what's going on with that?

Absolutely. Those kids, that family, they did not sign up for this.

So what is happening now is I try to keep that from happening.

Their birth certificates are online.

Things that shouldn't be happening are now happening.

And to get into the story, I did help a friend and her wife start a family,

but her wife ended up leaving her and left her high and dry.

This was my very close friend.

So I stepped in, voluntarily stepped in and helped.

So there are pictures of me around. You'll see me around.

I've spent holidays with all my friends, you know, all their kids.

And I played a part that became very shaky with a friend.

And there's no rule books to this. There's no set lines to this.

But I do wanna let people know...

Ashley knows all this.

This is news to the world. This has never been news to us.

And I'm giving this explanation now

because I feel like the world is waiting for it.

But I don't owe anyone an explanation but my wife.

And if she's sitting here with me...

We got your back, man.

I'm good. We're good.

- I'm not gonna keep harping on it. - Yeah.

It's funny, everyone kept saying I said "Mm-hmm" a lot in the pods.

- But not today. - Yes!

- I have some things to say. - Please do.

Starting with... like, who do you think has better insight

on what's going on, social media or me?

So for people to imply that, like, "She was blindsided, she didn't know,"

it's, like, insulting to my intelligence. That's number one.

Number two, for the record,

this is something he never wanted to share on camera.

I just didn't feel like it would be an authentic experience,

or that I could continue the experience if we didn't.

Because I know me. I cannot hide my facial expressions.

So I think there would've been a disconnect

and the viewers would've noticed,

my friends would've noticed when he went to meet them.

So I told him, in some capacity, we have to talk about this.

And, you know, there were things he was comfortable sharing and things he wasn't.

For example, one time I asked him,

I said, "Do they know what you look like?" And he's like, "I don't think so."

- And you could tell that he... - That he was trying to lie.

Yeah. So of course he divulged that information.

I'm so sorry, let me say that he was trying to lie for the cameras,

but you guys had already had this conversation.

The thing is, we weren't there for a couple other things we'll get to later.

- Hey, Stephen. - Hey, Stephen.

But you guys had had this conversation, and I see that the next day for cameras,

you're trying to clarify because you wanna be authentic,

but also you're trying to protect him and these children.

The very thing that we didn't want to happen happened.

And the thing with humanity is they have a hard time...

we have a hard time... understanding anything that we don't get,

anything that's taboo, anything that's out of our norm.

And that's exactly what's happening. Instead of trying to rationalize,

like, maybe this was hard to navigate, right?

And for me, I just know Tyler,

in his heart, to know that it had to be hard to navigate with a friend.

Way easier when you're removed.

And with him growing up in a single-parent household,

and in that scenario, when that happened with the divorce,

it was very hard for him to remove himself

and not be involved when this is now a single mom, right?

So that was hard for him, and I just know that he is a good person

who went in a little too deep and didn't know what to do.

This is not a game. This is till death do us part.

And we mean it. You can try.

We've seen all the, "Get an annulment," "Be done with him."

- Ask Ashley. - And it's like, look...

When I said, "I do," I said "I do" to all of it.

I was aware and I took on what I wanted to.

And this is a once in a lifetime kind of love.