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Frisky Q&A: Matchmaker Amy Laurent On Starting Her Biz And Helping Folks Find Love

adminOctober 7, 2010 //

For most of us, “Millionaire Matchmaker” is a guilty indulgence. But for professional matchmaker Amy Laurent, it’s a real-life, full-time job. Since setting up her own matchmaking agency six years ago, called Amy Laurent International, the bubbly 33-year-old has established five offices across the country where male clients dish the big bucks ($10,000 to be exact) to be matched with one of Laurent’s hand-picked ladies. We sat down with Laurent in her Madison Avenue office to find out what it’s like playing cupid for a living. Keep reading »

Maureen Dowd Is A Crap Matchmaker, Apparently, But She’s Not The Only One

Jessica WakemanMay 6, 2010 //

It was in-crowd matchmaking of the highest order: Maureen Dowd, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, offered to set up Helena Andrews, a reporter for the politics site Politico. “I’ve got a guy for you. He’s so hot, it’s perfect,” Dowd told Andrews during the 2008 election, identifying her plum bachelor as none other than candidate Barack Obama‘s personal assistant, Reggie Love. To some political wonks, Barack Obama’s right-hand man might have been a prize. But the Times‘ wannabe yenta turned out to be wrong: Andrews and Love didn’t hit it off at all. (Especially not after Love arrived to the date one hour late in gym clothes.)

Such a matchmaking foible was “dismayingly consistent,” Helena Andrews writes in the June Marie Claire. “Never mind the complicated algorithms of eHarmony: My matchmakers used simple math. Black professional + black professional = Huxtables.” Except … not. Keep reading »

Dating Weary? How A Matchmaker Can Help

YourTango.comApril 5, 2009 //

Ten years ago, former New York fashion model and girl about town Christie Nightingale was looking for a career change. She’d always done well at parties, was an ace at networking and had successfully set up several friends on dates. She clearly had the skills to be a matchmaker, but it wasn’t until a bona fide cupid family member encouraged her to investigate the field that she began to see it as a professional option for herself. Keep reading »

Going The Distance: The Set-Up

Wendy AtterberryOctober 8, 2008 //
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It was early spring, late afternoon, a couple of years ago and I was having beers and burgers with some girlfriends. It was warm enough that we sat on the patio outside where we ate and drank and talked about boys.

I was the youngest in the group — still a few months shy of my 30th birthday and conversation soon turned to the challenge of finding a good man before we all died alone with a bunch of cats in the living room and stale cereal in the cabinet.

“I don’t understand why it’s so hard,” I said, “I just want someone who’s funny and charming and kind and gracious and creative and ambitious and smart. Curly hair, glasses and dimples don’t hurt either,” I added.

My friend Meg immediately said she knew the perfect guy for me — that he was everything on my list.
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New York City Daters Get A (Reality TV) Guru

Catherine StrawnJanuary 3, 2008 //

So, with the writer’s strike still going on, we’re all going to have to embrace reality TV a whole lot more, if that’s even possible. I, for one, am trying. Tomorrow at 9:30 p.m. EST, Matched in Manhattan premieres on Lifetime – since I have a date tomorrow night, I just watched the episode online. Let me help you decide whether you’ll watch after the jump…

P.S. Doesn’t Matt look kind of like Barry Manilow sans Botox? Keep reading »