“We don’t have the budget,” creator Chris Coelen tells EW. “There’s absolutely no way we could do it with seven [couples in Mexico].”

Love Is Blind creator reveals why a couple went to Malibu alone instead of Mexico with the others (exclusive)

"We don't have the budget," creator Chris Coelen tells EW. "There's absolutely no way we could do it with seven [couples in Mexico]."

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**This article contains spoilers about *Love Is Blind* season 10, episodes 1-6. **

One *Love Is Blind* season 10 couple hit the jackpot.

After getting engaged in the very first episode, Vic and Christine experienced something that no other couple has in the history of Netflix's reality dating experiment. Instead of going on the post-engagement trip with all the other couples featured this season, they got to enjoy their own, private, romantic trip, away from all the drama of the other couples and without any producers watching over them. And the creator of the series reveals to ** exclusively why that decision was made this season.

"*Love Is Blind* never fails to surprise — we've never followed this many couples before, and it's really exciting," creator Chris Coelen tells EW in an exclusive interview about the first batch of season 10 episodes. "We had seven great couples, and we felt really strongly about all of them. Normally, we would only track up to five and sometimes we've stretched to six — even if we have more engagements than that, we can sort of zero in [on who to drop]. And this time, we couldn't. We really felt like that we had an abundance of terrific choices, so we made the decision to follow all of them."

Vic an Christine in 'Love Is Blind' season 10.

But due to the expanded roster of featured couples this season, producers had to get creative to figure out a way to follow them all after the pod portion concluded.

"Part of the reason that we can't follow more than normally five, and sometimes we stretch to six, is that we don't have the budget to do that," Coelen explains. "That's something I've talked about every single season, we just don't have the budget. We don't even have the budget to follow six, but we stretch, and we figure it out. And so there's absolutely no way we could do it with seven."

In the middle of episode 5, a title card revealed that Vic and Christine were sent on their own to Calamigos Ranch in Malibu, Calif., while the other six engaged couples went to Cabo San Lucas in Mexico together. Vic and Christine's trip was only documented with handheld selfie videos (again, due to budget reasons), but they will still be featured throughout the rest of the season as a main couple, filmed by producers, once they return home to Ohio.

'Love Is Blind' season 10 title card reveals a first for the show.

"We said, 'You know what, we're going to send one couple on their own individual romantic getaway, and they get to do a lot of the things that the couples that do go to Mexico got to do,'" Coelen says. "We had to pick one, and the couple that we picked, what I said to them before we sent them on their trip, 'We love you, we want to follow you, we want to be with you back in Ohio. You guys have been on your own amazing romantic bubble, your romantic island, this whole entire time.'"

Because Vic and Christine didn't have other romantic entanglements besides each other in the pods, it made the decision easy to separate them from the rest of the engaged couples for this part of the season.

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"Part of what people do when they go to Mexico is they resolve unresolved threads," Coelen says. "That's part of the point of going to Mexico and seeing all the others, and Vic and Christine really didn't have any of those unresolved threads. So they were the ones that we picked to go on the trip by themselves."

Coelen clarifies that Vic and Christine "dated other people," but they didn't create any drama that would erupt upon mixing with the other couples in Mexico. Unlike the others, who are in a love pentagon and have to deal with their exes on the trip.

Vic and Christine on 'Love Is Blind' season 10.

"Bri, for instance, her top four guys that she was dating at the end were all in Mexico, all of them," Coelen points out. "And there was just a live interconnectivity amongst people: Connor with Emma and Bri, and just so many people, so many sort of loose threads. We always tell them it's good for them to have the opportunity to either resolve those threads or figure out that there's something more there that's going to cause them not to get married. Those are the kinds of things they need to resolve before the altar. And, like I said, Vic and Christine didn't have that."

Coelen adds that, after they were told they were getting their own private trip, Vic and Christine took the news well.

"It was exactly the reaction that you would want, which is they just were in love and felt like they wanted to spend time together," he says. "And I don't think it really mattered to them whether they were going to go off and have time in Malibu or Mexico. They just really wanted to spend time with each other. And when I explained to them the reason they were going to send them to Malibu before sending them back to Ohio, they thought that it made total sense."

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And despite the expanded number of engaged couples this season, don't expect to get additional episodes. Coelen confirms that season 10 will consist of the same number of episodes as recent seasons: 12.

"It's tricky to try to balance the stories, but I think we did a really great job," he says. "I really believe this season is maybe our best season."

*Love Is Blind* season 10 releases episodes 7-9 on Wednesday, Feb. 18, with episodes 10-11 the following week on Feb. 25, and the finale on March 4 on Netflix.

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