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…
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…
Has the end of a relationship left you on the verge of a nervous breakdown? Let Cosmo’s RAC* (Relationship Advice Counsel) put you on the road to recovery! “I treated a good man badly – and I miss him” Claire White, a PA, was with John, a 29-year-old banker for three years before…
One in five single men and women, an estimated 2 million people, are turning to dating agencies to start relationships. Researchers who produced the figure say it will double over the next five years, amid evidence that modern lifestyle demands are killing off traditional courtship. Richard Scase, professor or organisational behaviour at Kent university who…
Karen Mooney sold just about everything she owned, and only had two months’ mortgage repayment money in hand when she launched her introduction agency, Sara Eden. Initial publicity stressed Sara Eden’s “Beautiful People” image. Anyone eyeing them up at a party would assume they were already fixed up. “We certainly do have clients that are…
For those in search of paradise. Karen Mooney sold just about everything she owned, and only had two months’ mortgage re-payment money in hand when she launched her introduction agency, Sara Eden. “I’d been in a secure job in personnel for 10 years, and when I handed in my notice, my family and friends…
The strength of a dating agency is that you have a better idea of people’s long-term intentions. By going through an agency, you can cram a whole lifetime of dating into three months because you know exactly what you want. Sara Eden specialises in blue-chip professionals in banking, law, medicine and the media and currently…
Alice Robinson This agency has a reputation for bringing the beautiful people together. Director Karen Mooney, who is vice-chairman of the Association of British Introduction Agencies (ABIA), chose the name because it means ‘royal princess in the garden of paradise’. It was an apt choice. Mooney, a blonde fairy godmother with a degree in personnel…
Working too hard to find a mate? Then join a company with the latest employee perk – dating agency membership. The reception of the Sara Eden introduction agency is full of the triumphant faces of newlyweds smiling smugly from the walls. Many, according to founder Karen Mooney, are couples who have found true love thanks…
Karen Mooney runs Sara Eden Introductions, a dating agency in London and Windsor that she set up in 1988. Business, she says, is booming. ‘Love conquers all things,’ she says, ‘ even in the credit crunch. In fact we’ve seen a 19% growth in sales over the last six months of 2008 and we’ve had…
Karen Mooney 40, lives with her family in Surrey. She runs a dating agency. There aren’t many jobs where you can go into work in the morning and feel that, by the afternoon, you’ve changed someone’s life for the better. But I like to think that’s what I do on a regular basis. I…