Each year on February 14th, thousands of people celebrate by exchanging cards, chocolates, gifts or flowers with their special “valentine.” But did you know the day of romance we call Valentine’s Day dates back to pre-Christian origins, involving nudity and whipping?In ancient Rome, 13th, 14th and 15th February were celebrated as Lupercalia, a pagan fertility festival.…
January can be a bleak time of year for many couples facing the reality that their relationship is in trouble. The stresses of another Christmas together have taken their toll and many will be considering what they want from life and their relationship in 2015. A quarter of married couples are only together for…
From: JANE Sent: 22 January 2015 13:24To: karenSubject: Re: Dear Karen It was lovely to see you and your wonderful team of matchmakers again I am so looking forward to a New Year, new start! I am sad it didn’t work out with David but we did have a couple of years of great fun and…
So why DO we have affairs – and is it ever possible for couples to move on from them? Janet Reibstein, a visiting professor of psychology at the University of Exeter, and author of one of the few academic studies into infidelity: Marriage and Affairs and the veteran psychotherapist Mira Kirshenbaum give us their opinions.…
If you want to ignite the flames of passion on a date – order dessert. And you might want to buy your date a box of chocolates too. That’s because tasting something sweet can make a person more interested in a potential partner, a study suggests. Researchers at Purdue University in the US described a would-be dating partner…
I recently discovered this interesting fact. The Carry On Loving film released in 1970 starring Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Hattie Jacques, Terry Scott and Bernard Bresslaw was filmed outside our offices in Windsor. Our building and the building next door were the locations for the Wedded Bliss Dating Agency. What a lovely interesting fact! Then in 1970 Our offices now 2015…
Wishing everyone a Happy (although belated) New Year! I hope 2015 is your best year yet! Kindest Regards Karen
We have Charlotte and Saeed’s permission to include this in our Blog and success stories and they have promised to keep us up to date with events! Charlotte > Sent: 18 December 2014 21:38 > To: angela > Subject: > > Hi Angela > > Not sure if you remember me it has been a…
Dear Angela, Just a quick note to thank you for your kind help in matching us. We celebrated 6 wonderful months together with a weekend in Bruges and are very much enjoying getting to know each other. We’re both very glad that we joined Sara Eden. Matt had one week left on his membership and…
So the kids have grown up and you’ve just returned to the dating scene after being married for years. But dating is a whole different ball game now you’re in your fifties.Don’t be disheartened just follow my four golden rules and make a good impression, otherwise there will never be a second date. In my…
Continue reading the main story Short men make better husbands, and make up in wisdom what they lack in stature, according to a pair of sociologists from New York University. The paper states that short men make have stable marriages. It says they marry late but when the do they tend to stay happily married.…
This just goes to show love can be staring you in the face and you just don’t know it. I would like to thank Jonathan and Loraine for allowing us to use their story and real names. As business partners who had found themselves single after divorce they both decided to join Sara Eden and…
We received this lovely card last week with a cheque for £60 from one of our members. Thank you so much Stephen, we spent the money on some beautiful flowers for both offices. Greatly enjoyed by both staff and clients. Love Karen
On 16th of April this year I blogged about Marian and Phil. After 25 years together Phil decided in February it was time to make an honest woman of her so he got down on one knee and proposed. With no parents to ask permission from they eloped to Gretna Green and got married in…
It seems birds of a feather really do flock together. Husbands and wives are more similar to each other than would be expected by chance, research has revealed. The finding comes from behavioural scientists who compared the DNA of more than 800 married couples with that of people paired together at random for the study. Despite…
It was so good to talk to you this morning Karen. All those memories of years ago came flooding back! Glad you like the wedding photos and we will forward one on to you as soon as we get them from the photographer. So here’s our story for your blog. I met Karen who had…
Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow and Coldplay singer Chris Martin are to separate after more than 10 years of marriage, the couple have said. Paltrow, 41, and Martin, 37, announced the split on her blog in a post titled Conscious uncoupling. “It is with hearts full of sadness that we have decided to separate,” the couple…
I contacted this ex member as a possible match for one of the clients I personally look after on our Founders membership level and this is the lovely email I received.Dear Karen Lovely to hear from you and thank you for thinking of me. My circumstances have changed i.e. I got married last July to a…
Hi Mary Thank you for your email. I’m actually in a relationship with someone I met through Sara Eden at the end of last year and so I am no longer interested in meeting anyone. Shaun was planning on emailing his contact there so that you can add the number to your successful introduction numbers!!…
Another success for Sara Eden… Hi Karen I can’t believe what is happening! What a difference a month makes….. I know it’s early days, but we just felt so happy together literally from our first meeting. To compound that, we discovered that we have mutual friends who had already been thinking of introducing us to…
