"Love Is Blind" Star Shaina Hurley Says She and Her Husband First Met Over FaceTime

Published on 9/16/2022 at 4:20 PM

"Love Is Blind" star Shaina Hurley may not have found romance on season two of the Netflix series, but she did end up getting her happily ever after. After her breakup with costar Kyle Abrams, Hurley started dating her now-husband, Christos Lardakis, shortly after filming wrapped in spring 2021. Fast forward a year later, and the two are enjoying marital bliss after tying the knot in July.

"Love is definitely blind."

Viewers finally got a chance to formally meet Hurley's beau during "Love Is Blind: After the Altar" season two, which premiered on Sept. 16. But after the reality-TV star revealed their relationship during the season two reunion, some are wondering when exactly they first got together (apparently, they knew each other before Hurley appeared on "Love Is Blind").

Hurley and Lardakis tell POPSUGAR it's a "weird story" of how they met. "Love is definitely blind," Lardakis jokes, "because one of my colleagues was FaceTiming with her, who was about five, six feet away from me. And I heard her voice from the phone." "My annoying voice," Hurley jokingly adds. Her husband says: "Listening some more . . . I was able to see who he was talking to, but it was her voice that [first] drew me to her."

Hurley confirms the two met over FaceTime, though they didn't exactly see each other's faces yet. "He had went to Greece for three weeks, so we built an emotional foundation first," she says. "Then he came back . . . long story short, he just was not in a place to date. He was going through a lot . . . [and] wasn't able to give me what I wanted."

Hurley shares it wasn't until a few months later and after "Love Is Blind" wrapped filming that the two were able to rekindle their spark at a mutual friend's wedding in Greece at the end of July 2021. "I saw her and I was like, 'Wow, what an idiot I was' . . . Just being there and seeing her, I think that connection that we once had came right back," Lardakis says. "It was so natural."

Hurley admits she doesn't know if she and Lardakis would be together had she not gone on "Love Is Blind." After a couple of months of dating, the two say they quickly got engaged and then "raced to get married." Ahead, read more about Hurley and Lardakis's whirlwind romance.

March 2022: Shaina Hurley Reveals Her New Relationship at the "Love Is Blind" Season 2 Reunion

During the reunion, which aired on March 4, Hurley opened up about her split with ex Kyle Abrams before she revealed she had a new man in her life. On an episode of the "Viall Files" podcast, released two days before the reunion, Hurley said, "I'm actually in a relationship. It's pretty serious." She also said Lardakis had been "nothing but a support" and "great" as the show made headlines." She said, "I'm happy."

March 2022: Shaina Hurley Makes Her Relationship With Christos Lardakis Instagram Official

On March 13, less than two weeks after Hurley revealed her and Lardakis's relationship during the "Love Is Blind" season two reunion, she made their romance Instagram official and posted photos of the two vacationing in Mykonos captioned, "My ride or die forever."

March 2022: Shaina Hurley and Christos Lardakis Get Engaged

Earlier this year, People broke the news that Hurley and Lardakis had taken their relationship to the next level and gotten engaged on March 10. Hurley tells POPSUGAR the proposal actually took place "the night before" the pair attended Nick Thompson and Danielle Ruhl's '80s costume party/Natalie's 30th birthday party, as seen in "After the Altar."

July 2022: Shaina Hurley and Christos Lardakis Get Married 1 Year After "Love Is Blind" Season 2

On July 2, 2022, Hurley and Lardakis tied the knot in Chicago in a courthouse wedding, which an insider told People they did "just to get their marriage license." TMZ, the first to report the news, noted that the couple's courthouse wedding was just stage one of their big plans. Later that same month, the two got married again in a bigger ceremony in Vouliagmeni, Greece, People reported.