A Final Look Where the ‘Love Is Blind’ Season 4 Couples Stand Before Heading to the Altar

Almost at the altar! The Love Is Blind season 4 couples have navigated highs and lows since getting engaged sight unseen in the Netflix pods.

While Chelsea Griffin eagerly accepted Kwame Appiah’s proposal, things quickly took a turn after seeing each other (and their exes!) face-to-face. During the cast’s group vacation to Mexico, which aired in March 2023, Kwame couldn’t help but look back at his pod connection with fellow cast member Micah Lussier. The Ghana native even confessed in a confessional that the marketing manager, who accepted Paul Peden’s proposal, still held a "special place” in his heart.

“I think no matter what, especially when you start looking at the life that you have now, but when you think about the connection I have with Chelsea — the pod relationship you have with someone [is] completely different from the actual relationship you have with someone,” Kwame exclusively told Us Weekly ahead of the season 4 premiere that March. “Like when I went past the pods with Chelsea, I was just like, ‘OK, this is almost a reflex for us, the way we interact, the way we under understand each other.’”

He added at the time: “I just don’t believe that would’ve ever been the case with Micah, and I can respect that. I think we had a great relationship in the pods, and that’s what I meant [by] ‘She has a special place in my heart.’ But I knew deep down in my soul that there was just no possibility of us going past that and having anything that was actually of value to us as human beings [and] as people who are in love. Like, we had a great time in the pods. It was great to move on from there.”

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Chelsea, who confessed to Us that it wasn’t her place to interfere with her man getting closure from a past connection, stuck by Kwame’s side when they returned to Seattle. However, the twosome quickly conflicted over post-wedding lifestyle plans. (The speech pathologist and her pup Rocky are based in Seattle, while Kwame lives in Portland, Oregon.)

Zack Goytowski, for his part, has been navigating his newfound engagement to Bliss Poureetezadi after calling off his relationship with costar Irina Solomonova. After returning home from Mexico post-split, Zack reunited with Bliss and popped the question after a couple of in-person dates.

“I would say I made a mistake with not picking Bliss [in the first place], and I think that was the real mistake,” the criminal defense attorney revealed to Us ahead of the Love Is Blind season 4 premiere. “I knew that when I ended it [with Irina] and was kind of dealing with that. I don’t know how much you could see of the turmoil that I was going through, but when I did end it, then my very first thing was I wanted to go and tell [producers] to bring [Bliss] back and that I had made the wrong choice, but I knew I had to live with the decision.”

The fourth season of the Netflix hit also saw Jackelina “Jackie” Bonds and Marshall Glaze and Tiffany Pennywell and Brett Brown get engaged after their own pod love stories.

Scroll below to see where each Love Is Blind couple stands before they say “I do” or “I don’t” in the finale:

Almost at the altar! The Love Is Blind season 4 couples have navigated highs and lows since getting engaged sight unseen in the Netflix pods.

While Chelsea Griffin eagerly accepted Kwame Appiah’s proposal, things quickly took a turn after seeing each other (and their exes!) face-to-face. During the cast’s group vacation to Mexico, which aired in March 2023, Kwame couldn’t help but look back at his pod connection with fellow cast member Micah Lussier. The Ghana native even confessed in a confessional that the marketing manager, who accepted Paul Peden’s proposal, still held a "special place” in his heart.

“I think no matter what, especially when you start looking at the life that you have now, but when you think about the connection I have with Chelsea — the pod relationship you have with someone [is] completely different from the actual relationship you have with someone,” Kwame exclusively told Us Weekly ahead of the season 4 premiere that March. “Like when I went past the pods with Chelsea, I was just like, ‘OK, this is almost a reflex for us, the way we interact, the way we under understand each other.’”

He added at the time: “I just don’t believe that would’ve ever been the case with Micah, and I can respect that. I think we had a great relationship in the pods, and that’s what I meant [by] ‘She has a special place in my heart.’ But I knew deep down in my soul that there was just no possibility of us going past that and having anything that was actually of value to us as human beings [and] as people who are in love. Like, we had a great time in the pods. It was great to move on from there.”

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Chelsea, who confessed to Us that it wasn’t her place to interfere with her man getting closure from a past connection, stuck by Kwame’s side when they returned to Seattle. However, the twosome quickly conflicted over post-wedding lifestyle plans. (The speech pathologist and her pup Rocky are based in Seattle, while Kwame lives in Portland, Oregon.)

Zack Goytowski, for his part, has been navigating his newfound engagement to Bliss Poureetezadi after calling off his relationship with costar Irina Solomonova. After returning home from Mexico post-split, Zack reunited with Bliss and popped the question after a couple of in-person dates.

“I would say I made a mistake with not picking Bliss [in the first place], and I think that was the real mistake,” the criminal defense attorney revealed to Us ahead of the Love Is Blind season 4 premiere. “I knew that when I ended it [with Irina] and was kind of dealing with that. I don’t know how much you could see of the turmoil that I was going through, but when I did end it, then my very first thing was I wanted to go and tell [producers] to bring [Bliss] back and that I had made the wrong choice, but I knew I had to live with the decision.”

The fourth season of the Netflix hit also saw Jackelina “Jackie” Bonds and Marshall Glaze and Tiffany Pennywell and Brett Brown get engaged after their own pod love stories.

Scroll below to see where each Love Is Blind couple stands before they say “I do” or “I don’t” in the finale:

While Chelsea’s father quickly gave Kwame his blessing to tie the knot, the former soccer player’s mother was far less enthusiastic. Kwame felt confident in his engagement, but his mom was “mad” over the unconventional romance.

“[It] didn’t go well,” he told Chelsea after informing his mother of their engagement. “My mom’s been a big part of my life. Massive. She said that as a mother, as someone who would expect more from me, I didn’t do the right thing. She doesn’t think that I used my head in this situation and that she can’t really say that she’s happy for me.”

The engaged pair also had candid conversations about settling in either Seattle or Portland. Kwame feared compromising “too much” if he moved for Chelsea, claiming that all of his friendships, running paths and pickup soccer games were in Portland. His future bride, for her part, wanted to be close to her family.

“I definitely think we’re gonna settle in Seattle regardless of all the factors,” Chelsea revealed in an episode 7 confessional. “I mean, it is where my family is. Family is really important to me and I don’t work a remote job. With Kwame working remotely, it just kind of makes sense.”

The twosome also dealt with trying to figure out their future living arrangements, with the marketing manager telling her man that she did not want to move into his apartment in favor of a space with an extra bedroom and a separate office.

“We have your place here, I have my place here and then the place in Arizona,” Micah said in the seventh episode, referring to her dual residences in both Washington and Arizona. “Then, we would just get rid of [yours]. A good tentative plan would be to kind of bounce back and forth between here and Arizona.”

Paul quickly shut down his fiancée’s idea despite Micah wanting to be able to keep splitting her time.

Prior to their wedding day, Jackie and Marshall dealt with a series of heated arguments, with the marketing manager even revealing that his fiancée tends to “ruminate” in her moods for long periods. 

“In this moment, this whole relationship with Jackie is very bleak,” Marshall said during a confessional in episode 8. “The other night, she says that I needed to 'boss up.' The way that she made me feel in that moment when she said that 'I wasn’t a man, that I wasn’t doing grown-man stuff,' that hurts because I truly, genuinely do love this girl.”

Marshall ultimately left their shared home to stay at his pre-show apartment because he needed space, noting he doesn’t know where their romance stands. Jackie, for her part, claimed she wanted her fiancé to be more "aggressive" and was upset that they do not have sex.

They ultimately split before their planned wedding day.

After a few post-pod dates, Zack proposed to Bliss while aboard a luxury boat. Despite saying yes, the program manager had conflicting emotions after he previously broke her heart in favor of his relationship with Irina.

“I’ve cried so much. I literally don’t know if I have any tears left inside, like, I think I’m done forever crying about you,” Bliss recalled to Zack about getting engaged to a man who just called off a separate engagement. “It’s definitely a challenge for me, for sure, battling my pride through this has been hard. Parted me wanted to never, ever, ever talk to you again because it [was] hurtful, but I love you a lot and I’ve been very forgiving to you.”

Brett and Tiffany had fans swooning over their mature love story, which seldom had any prenuptial disagreements. The pair’s largest potential issue stemmed from conversations about budgets after Tiffany jokingly dubbed the design director “Bougie Brett” due to his expensive taste in home décor and fashion.

“I think you have very good style and very good taste, [but] I just want to make sure it’s within a budget I feel comfortable spending,” Tiffany confessed during episode 7. “Here’s my thing: I don’t need to know everything you spend things on, just as long as you pay the bills. [And] I don’t want somebody telling how I should be spending my money because I’m doing OK already.”

Brett even offered to cover 60 or 75 percent of the married couple’s bills once they tie the knot.