'Love Is Blind' in real life? What happened when an LA speed-dating event required blindfolds

Maria Serpas fidgeted her hands in her lap nervously as she waited for her date to arrive.

"I'm giving [dating] another chance," the 40-year-old entrepreneur from Montebello said. "I think I've done a lot of work on myself mentally and now I'm in a space now where everything is aligned, and it's like, 'All right, let's see how I can align my love life now.'"

When her date finally sat down in front of her, she couldn't see him. They'd both been blindfolded ahead of time — he'd been guided to Serpas' table by a staffer — as part of a unique experience called Dating Blind.

"It made me feel a bit safer because they weren't looking at me and I wasn't looking at them,"