Does the thought of online dating stress you out? Are you looking for a more traditional dating approach? Do in-person matchmaking evenings still exist? If they don't, they should. Michelle recalls a brief yet hilarious encounter from her younger days when she was asked to fill in as the missing woman in an unevenly numbered matchmaking event. The evening was not only intriguing but also eye-opening. So, who's up for the challenge? Let the matchmaking games begin!
Does the thought of online dating stress you out? Are you looking for a more traditional dating approach? Do in-person matchmaking evenings still exist? If they don't, they should. Michelle recalls a brief yet hilarious encounter from her younger days when she was asked to fill in as the missing woman in an unevenly numbered matchmaking event. The evening was not only intriguing but also eye-opening. So, who's up for the challenge? Let the matchmaking games begin!
Show Notes
[00:00:00] In person matching making events for those that are dating app adverse
[00:00:46] The matchmaker would need a large pool of people including LGBTQ+
[00:01:09] There are a lot of people that are way more comfortable with more traditional ways of dating vs dating apps.
[00:01:38] My experience working at a matchmaking event.
[00:03:34] How do people find out if there is a mutual match?
[00:03:58] Reach out to me at Michelle@getsome.ca if you are setting up a matchmaking event.
Michelle:
[00:00:00] I have so many clients that are single and wanting to date and so anxious about this whole online app thing, and so I feel like somebody out there needs to develop an in-person matchmaking evening that isn't connected to any of these big dating apps and not random people, it has to be a matchmaking event that is carefully thought out.
[00:00:46] And so this person needs to have a pretty big circle of friends or people that they know and have a good sense of potential matches between whatever kind of dating event it is, right? Whether or not it's for hetero, monogamous, gay, queer there could be so many different options.
[00:01:09] I think somebody needs to come up with this because there's just a lot of people out there that are way more comfortable with more traditional ways of dating. They just are so reluctant to online dating. So I think that there needs to be a choice, and maybe there are, I'm sure there are some in-person matchmaking evenings that are going on somewhere, but.
[00:01:38] I feel like this should be bigger, a bigger industry than it is. I remember when I was, oh gosh, it was probably in my early twenties and I worked at a restaurant and they were having a matchmaking evening and I was like serving it and it was basically 20 women, 20 men. And every woman was put at a different table and they stayed there.
[00:02:14] It was like their station. And then the men would like, a bell would ring after, I think it was like five minutes of conversation, and then they move on to the next station. But what happened was they had uneven numbers. So the. Matchmaking owner, I guess, goes up to my manager and says, do you know anybody that can take a spot?
[00:02:43] We need a woman. And of course, like I was just, uh, I guess I just walked in at that conversation and I was single at the time and my manager is like, Hey Michelle, do you want to, um, take the space of the missing woman? And. I remember seeing all the guys that were there, and I knew for sure like it wasn't, it just wasn't a match.
[00:03:09] I was way younger. It wasn't something that I was comfortable doing and it just so happened that the woman did show up. Thank goodness. But yeah, I was able to watch the whole thing. I thought the process was really interesting, but I kind of didn't feel like they did a good job on the matches. Like it was pretty, there wasn't a whole lot of chemistry going on with people.
[00:03:34] And then at the end of the evening, they all put, I think it's like their top pick and then whoever, like whatever matches they get, they email them, I guess a couple days later to say if anyone matched them and that that's how it worked. And oh my God, if I had time, I would probably do something like that, but.
[00:03:58] I don't, I honestly, there's so much I wanna do. Please, somebody out there, take this role. Once you get it going, reach out to me. I'm like so interested in this stuff and I just think a lot of people, uh, would appreciate this other dating option. And it would also feel safer cuz you've got a lot of people around.
[00:04:20] There's somebody who is almost like monitoring to make sure if anybody's uncomfortable, that will be dealt with. So that's all I have to say. Thanks for joining me and I'll talk to you later. Bye.