Love is Blind’s Taylor and Daniel Wouldn’t Have Matched on Dating App 

While Taylor Haag and Daniel Hastings proved to Us that love is real (and blind), they probably wouldn’t have gotten together without the Netflix show.

“I never dated someone younger than me and Daniel never dated someone older than him,” Taylor, 33, said on the Wednesday, March 12, episode of the “What’s the Reality” podcast. “I am, in fact, older than him. So, on dating apps, I don’t know if we ever really would have matched because we had our ranges set at different times or different ages.”

Taylor and Daniel, 30, only have a three-year age gap, but the nurse previously never considered going out with anyone significantly younger than she is.

“Anytime I did try and date someone younger, I was like, ‘This is why I don’t do it,’ ‘cause I was just proved right every time,” Taylor admitted, citing a lack of maturity on their end.

Daniel, for his part, would have also swiped left on Taylor just based on her age.

“It was an immediate, like, ‘Ah, I’ll just look for someone my age,’” he said. “You just wouldn’t even give it a chance, so how cool is this type of experiment where that is not the most important thing?”

Taylor and Daniel met — and fell in love — sight unseen on Love Is Blind, which was filmed in Minneapolis in spring 2024 and aired on Netflix one year later. Before Daniel popped the question and they came face-to-face, he and Taylor bonded over shared values and a mutual love of Christmas. Taylor was also intrigued that Daniel didn’t act his age.

“He is far mature,” she gushed to podcast host and fellow LiB alum AD Smith on Wednesday’s episode.

Taylor and Daniel’s romance hit a snag — albeit briefly — when she thought he recognized her when they met in person. Taylor claimed that Daniel had attempted to follow her on social media before the experiment, which he denied. Since then, they were able to move past any drama.

Taylor and Daniel were, ultimately, the only couple to tie the knot during season 8.

“To say that it’s been a wild ride would be quite the understatement,” Daniel said in his wedding vows. “It’s crazy to think that just five weeks ago to the day, I was getting on a knee after our first date. I fell in love with you because … the way that you process things, the way that you think about things, the way that we instantly became best friends, the way that I can see you being plugged into my life as the mother of my children and as my wife for the rest of my life. Like, this is it. I can see it.”

Coming up on their first anniversary, Taylor and Daniel are now looking forward to even more milestones.

“We’ve traveled quite a bit,” Daniel said on the podcast. “I travel a little bit for work, so Taylor was able to tag along with some of that, which was fun.”

Taylor chimed in, adding that their honeymoon in the Bahamas was “amazing” before they bought their first house together back in the Twin Cities.

Love Is Blind is currently streaming on Netflix.