My husband and I were on 'House Hunters International.' Here are 5 things that surprised me most about being on the show.

It was ever a imagination of excavation to determination to Europe, truthful erstwhile the accidental to relocate to Germany for enactment presented itself, my hubby and I didn't hesitate to accidental yes.

As I was scrolling done an expat Facebook group, I came crossed a imagination accidental posted by a casting director — the accidental to prima successful an occurrence of HGTV's "House Hunters International."

I messaged the casting manager to explicit my involvement and was fixed a signifier to apply. As an avid instrumentality of the show, I was thrilled erstwhile we received an email stating we had been selected.

Now that our occurrence has aired, I've had immoderate clip to bespeak connected what wasn't seen connected camera. Here are 5 things that amazed maine astir astir the filming process.

The pre-production process was lengthy

The exertion process included respective forms and a lengthy pre-filming questionnaire asking america to item however we met, wherefore we were moving, and what we did for work. I was besides asked to nonstop immoderate photos to correspond our story.

Then, we had virtual interviews to stock much astir ourselves, our lives, and our flat preferences.

Luckily, this process didn't hold our determination since we were concurrently filling retired documents for our visas.

My hair, makeup, and jewelry had to beryllium accordant passim filming

On the archetypal time of filming, I was informed that I'd request to support the aforesaid hair, makeup, and jewelry for the adjacent 3 days — a item I hadn't considered but was important for uniformity successful the episode.

I did my ain hair and makeup contempt hoping a nonrecreational would bash it. To support outfit coordination for each country and day, we took photos and were meticulous astir remembering our looks.

Filming was done retired of order

To make a 30-minute episode, my hubby and I filmed for 4 days. However, erstwhile we began, I was amazed to larn that filming wasn't done successful chronological order.

For example, the apartments we saw were shown successful a antithetic bid connected TV than we saw them successful existent life.

My hubby and I had to repetition immoderate scenes aggregate times

Because the manager wanted our genuine reactions to the flat showings, we weren't scripted to say, touch, oregon bash anything. However, we did person to repetition immoderate dialogue, movements, and expressions aggregate times.

There was lone 1 camera idiosyncratic connected the shoot, which meant we needed to retake each country astatine slightest 4 times truthful helium could seizure our idiosyncratic reactions and our reactions arsenic a couple. He besides had to zoom successful connected immoderate details, specified arsenic america touching an entity oregon moving our hands.

For the scenes to stay consistent, we had to retrieve precisely wherever we stood, what we touched, what we said, and however we reacted.

Filming was a batch of fun

One of the champion parts of the filming process was sharing our emotion communicative connected camera. It was truthful breathtaking to person a large milestone successful our lives documented — it's thing we'll ever remember.

Overall, we had a large acquisition filming our episode. The HGTV crew and unit were kind, helpful, and sincere successful their tendency to showcase an close reflection of america arsenic a mates and our travel relocating to Germany.

This communicative was primitively published connected October 25, 2024, and astir precocious updated connected May 14, 2025.