'Love Is Blind' Star Shaina Hurley Marries Christos Lardakis
Love after the pods! Shaina Hurley married Christos Lardakis after her whirlwind journey on Love Is Blind.
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According to TMZ, the pair wed on Saturday, July 2, at a courthouse in Chicago with a close friend and Lardakis’ daughter as the witnesses. The outlet obtained photos from the low-key ceremony and reports that they plan to exchange vows in Greece at a later date.
Hurley started dating Lardakis after ending her brief engagement to Kyle Abrams on season 2 of Love Is Blind, which aired earlier this year. The reality personality went public with her relationship on March 2 and announced their engagement two weeks later.
“He’s been great throughout the whole situation. I’m happy,” Hurley said on the “Viall Files” at the time.
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The hairstylist further opened up about her relationship with Abrams, admitting she regretted accepting his proposal in the pods.
“Because even before he proposed, I was like, ‘I don’t know how it’s gonna work.’ … I was trying to be open-minded because this is an experiment,” she told Nick Viall. “This was, like, 10 days — people are acting like this was years. … During the reveal, I had [the] intention, [then] I’m like, ‘You know what? I don’t know if we should be doing this.’ And when I saw him, it was like, ‘Oh, my God, this is real.’”
When the couples on the reality show traveled to Mexico post-engagements, Hurley was shown leaving with no warning.
“I would not just leave him in Mexico. Unfortunately, why I left wasn’t on film, so they weren’t able to show that,” she told Viall. “I was very honest with Kyle and I had told them like, ‘I can’t do this.’ I broke up with him for a reason. And I had explained that to him in Mexico, and I wanted to go home. I was kind of over it at that point. And I just needed to see my family again, like, we weren’t able to see them for about three weeks, so I had no outside influence.”
Abrams, for his part, spoke to Us Weekly about how religious differences played a part in their breakup.
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“I thought I was giving in a lot. Those are things that [with] normal dating, I would’ve written her off right away,” he said in February. “The first time I gave in. So I thought maybe she would — she should — too. I thought it was a mutual thing, but I guess not.”
Abrams later admitted that he wishes he proposed to Deepti Vempati instead of Hurley. The twosome have since played coy about their relationship.
“All I can say is, you know, we’re going through it. We’re just figuring it out,” Vempati told Us in June. “I think you guys will see more of our story later. [Kyle is] one of my best friends, so that’s all I can say.”
