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Inside Married at First Sight's Intense Matchmaking Process

How It Actually Works

First, the city is picked, with production then spending about six months in prep, where, in addition to all of the applications they receive (hovering around 50,000 now), they are going to churches and bars, going on dating apps and reaching out to possible candidates to "make the prospective pool as big as people," Coelen said.

Next up for the interested people are interviews over the phone or Skype, followed by an extensive and thorough questionnaire. Within that process, people are vetted out for various reasons. 

By then, the MAFS team has whittled the pool down to about 100-200 people, who are invited to workshops, with the men and women being separated from another to avoid seeing their prospective spouse. 

This is where the experts come in. A big meet-and-greet, interview sessions with each of the three experts, separate and very in-depth psychological and background evaluations all go down, and then, if you make it far enough, a home visit from Dr. Pepper is one of the final stages.

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