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One of the questions clients sometimes ask when they begin professional matchmaking is whether they have to stop dating online or meeting people on their own.
No.
Dating apps can work. Friends can make introductions. You can meet someone while traveling, at an event, through work, or somewhere you never expected.
At Love & Matchmaking, we love serendipity.
But professional matchmaking offers something fundamentally different from opening an app and conducting the search yourself.
It adds experienced people whose job is to learn what you are looking for, actively search for potential matches, recruit when appropriate, evaluate possibilities, and create thoughtful introductions on your behalf.
Dating apps give you access. Professional matchmaking gives you a personalized search.
Of course.
Working with a professional matchmaker does not mean that every other possible way of meeting someone suddenly disappears.
If you enjoy online dating, you can continue using it. If a friend wants to introduce you to someone, wonderful. And sometimes a connection appears somewhere you never thought to look.
That is part of what we mean when we say we love serendipity.
We believe making a genuine effort toward finding a relationship can create opportunities in more than one place. Professional matchmaking can be a substantial part of that effort because it adds an active, personalized search being conducted specifically for you.
Put real effort into finding love, then leave a little room for love to surprise you.
The goal is not to control every possible way a relationship can begin.
It is to create better opportunities for the right one to begin.
Because the two experiences operate at very different levels.
Dating apps can give you access to a large number of people. They can be convenient, independent, and useful for someone who enjoys managing their own dating search.
But on an app, you are essentially acting as your own matchmaker.
You create the profile. You choose the photographs. You search or swipe. You decide which profiles interest you. You initiate conversations. You evaluate responses. You try to determine whether someone is genuine. And eventually, you decide which possibilities deserve your time for an actual date.
Professional matchmaking changes who is doing much of that work.
At Love & Matchmaking, we learn what you are looking for, actively search for potential introductions, recruit when appropriate, use multiple methods to find people, and evaluate which introductions we believe are worth presenting.
Put simply:
Let us do the hard work. You go have fun on the date.
That does not make dating apps bad.
It makes professional matchmaking a very different level of service.
Matchmaker Insight:
Dating apps provide possibilities. Professional matchmaking adds experienced people whose job is to help find the possibilities most worth your time.
Not at all.
A dating app generally provides a platform, profiles, and tools that allow you to conduct your own search.
Professional matchmaking is a human-led service in which much of that search is conducted for you.
That distinction changes the experience.
Instead of spending countless hours working through profiles, you have people actively looking on your behalf.
Instead of limiting the search to whichever profiles happen to appear on your screen, professional matchmaking can draw from databases, active recruiting, digital technology, networks, direct outreach, and other methods of identifying potential introductions.
Instead of making every decision from a photograph and a short profile, the matchmaking process can consider what we have learned about you, what we have learned about a potential introduction, and why the two of you may make sense together.
And once a date happens, there is something an algorithm or profile cannot provide in quite the same way:
Human feedback.
Your matchmakers can listen to what happened, learn from the experience, and use that information as the search continues.
An app helps you search a pool. A matchmaker searches for you.
You can.
There is no contradiction between using a dating app and having professional matchmakers working on your behalf.
The difference is what each adds to your search.
An app gives you another place to look.
Professional matchmaking gives you people who are also looking for you.
While you continue living your life—and even dating online if you choose—your matchmaking team can conduct a more focused search based on what they have learned about you.
That gives you something beyond another source of potential dates.
It gives you another level of effort.
And we believe effort matters.
You can widen the search yourself. A matchmaker adds another search built around you.
Then serendipity may have done exactly what serendipity does.
A connection might begin online, through friends, while traveling, at an event, or somewhere completely unexpected.
Professional matchmaking does not change the fact that people sometimes meet in surprising ways.
What it does change is the amount of intentional effort being put behind your search.
Rather than relying entirely on yourself, an app, or chance to produce the right opportunity, you also have professional matchmakers actively looking for potential introductions on your behalf.
That is the additional level professional matchmaking provides.
Serendipity is wonderful. A strategy means you do not have to wait for it.
Online dating has made it possible to encounter more potential partners than almost any previous generation could have imagined.
But having access to more people does not necessarily make identifying the right person easier.
That is where professional matchmaking becomes different.
Rather than simply giving you another collection of profiles to work through, professional matchmakers take an active role in searching, recruiting, evaluating possibilities, and making introductions.
You still have to show up.
You still have to be yourself.
You still have to discover whether chemistry exists when two real people finally sit across from one another.
But you do not have to conduct the entire search yourself.
Apps put more people in front of you. Matchmaking puts more expertise behind you.
That may be the simplest way to understand the difference.
Use the tools that make sense for you. Stay open to the unexpected. Put genuine effort into finding the relationship you want.
And if you want that effort to include experienced matchmakers actively searching on your behalf, that is where professional matchmaking moves the process to another level.
Can I still date online while working with a matchmaker?
Are professional matchmakers like online dating?
Why hire a matchmaker if dating apps can work?
Can I use online dating and professional matchmaking at the same time?
What makes professional matchmaking different from using a dating app?
How Do Matchmakers Find and Screen Potential Matches?
Next, we’ll go behind the scenes of the search itself—from Lovebase and active recruiting to Love & Matchmaking’s different points of touch, background screening, and one of the questions clients naturally ask: "Can I see a picture?"
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