Love is in the Air.

February 14 Valentine’s Day. A time for lovers to express their feelings for each other by giving cards, flowers and chocolates. In the UK, just under half of the population spend money on their Valentines and around £1.3 billion is spent yearly on cards, flowers, chocolates and other gifts, with an estimated 25 million cards…

The Matchmaking Business

Dating agencies are booming, but what actually goes on behind the scenes – and can you really meet the man of your dreams? Samm Taylor reports.   For Karen Mooney, weddings are an occupational hazard. On average, she attends 20 a year, sometimes more. Then there are the christenings, hen nights and baby showers –…

Love me, I’m a lawyer

AS ROMANCE-STARVED LAWYERS WAIT FOR CUPID TO DRAW BACK HIS BOW, CATHERINE BAKSI FINDS HELP FOR THOSE WHO HAVE LIMITED TIME TO MEET THE LOVE OF THEIR LIFE   If you have just spent another valentine’s day working late at the office, and going home to a microwave meal for one and the only card…

Caring GP, GSOH, WLTM new partner

Hardworking GPs are flocking to dating agencies to find a mate. And they are proving the most popular pick for potential partners, writes Anna Goldie. Agency Sara Eden Personal Introductions says it has had a 25 percent increase in the number of GPs on its books – with January the most popular month for new…

Nigel Dempster Article

What does vivacious blonde Karen Mooney do when she is not working to promote the Prince Philip Trust Fund ? ‘I run a dating agency’, says 33 year old Karen, who was appointed PR for the Fund six weeks ago. Her first task is to promote a celebrity Lord’s Taverners cricket match in the grounds…

Interview with Talk Radio London

Wednesday, February 28th, 2018 Well done Angela our Senior Consultant from our Westminster office for giving some fantastic dating tips and advice to callers on on the Yasmeen Khan show on Talk Radio London. Dating via Sara Eden is safe, sensible and fun. We will be celebrating 30 years in the industry this September and…

My brother signed me up with a matchmaker

  Erica Sheward, 38, is a technical director of a food manufacturing business. She lives in West Sussex with husband Martin, 33, a doctor.   ‘I was very career focused throughout my twenties but, by my early thirties, knew I wanted to settle down. One night, I was moaning to my brother that I had…

Matchmaking makes a comeback

A few years back, we all fell in love with dating. It can probably be traced (like many things) to Sex and the City. What fun it looked: dressing up in gorgeous dresses, with shoes so expensive that no man could ever appreciate them, to flit between gallery openings and fashionable restaurants with a series…

The Dating Agency

“Older men have it easy. I’m coming back as a bloke” There are always slightly more women on our books. Why? God made it that way. Women have it better when they are younger, men when thy are older. A girl in her twenties or thirties can go for older men, but 40-year-old men can go…

My top tips for a perfect first date

Tomorrow is National Dating Day and with a record 11 million singletons searching for love in the UK, the etiquette of romance has never been more complicated. Follow these 12 golden rules of dating and you will be well on course to true love.   Do’s WHERE TO MEET Ideally choose a quiet wine bar…

The ‘past their sell-by’ daters

There are more over-thirties looking for love than ever before. But why so many – and where do they start their search? Sally Brampton meets the adults who, like amorous adolescents, find themselves anxiously waiting for that email or phone call… A friend, recently divorced, is in a state of high excitement. She has a…

Beautiful Friendships Start Here

THEY eyed each other nervously over their glasses of champagne — successful TV scriptwriters, lawyers, surveyors and accountants.   Most of the faces in this small, select and glamorous gathering had three things in common: they were very good looking, very successful and, surprisingly, single. These were just some of the attractive clients who had…

Money can buy you love

Introduction agencies are some of the fastest-growing businesses of the last decade. And its all because of you. An increasing number of directors now pay third parties to help them find the perfect mate. Wendy Smith explains why. FABULOUS SALRAY, FABULOUS HOME, fabulous prospects – and still free and single. That appears to be the…

Bring on the Brides

KAREN MOONEY has cause to smile as she admires dresses that could be adorning radiant brides before the year is out. Business is booming for Sara Eden Introductions, the dating agency she launched in her kitchen in 1988. ‘We are seeing huge Milestones such as birthdays ending in a zero or the dawn of a…

All Work and no Romance

  If you find you are working so hard that there is too little time for romance in your life, Karen Mooney may have the answer. She is principal of Sara Eden Introductions, a dating agency for the professional and managerial classes. Since it was founded in 1988, the Windsor-based agency has achieved remarkable success…