 <p>Your calling the wrong values in the view. It should be:</p> <pre><code>Email: {{ $email }} Password: {{ $password }} </code></pre> <p>As a side point - you should not be calling <code>Mail::pretend()</code> in your code. You should be configuring this as part of your environment setup, so that while in dev mode, the mail pretend is set to true, and in production it is set to false.</p>