What Really Is the Best Way to Find Love in Time for Christmas?
One of the most frequent questions we are asked by our potential clients is ‘How long does it take to find love on average’? At this time of year, that may well be varied slightly to be ‘Do you think I might be able to find love in time for Christmas’?
Of course, the answer is always ‘possibly’ as everyone is different and what can happen quickly for one couple is often a much slower burn for another, and no one ever knows quite how it will go. What we do know however is that everybody must start somewhere in their search and the run up to Christmas and the start of a brand-new year is a brilliant time for many. It's also one of our most popular times to join and kickstart your matchmaking membership.
So far, 2024 has proved to be an excellent year for us at Attractive Partners. Our matchmaking team is probably our strongest ever in our 21 years of operating, and on average we potentially change for the better over 50 lives a week with successful matchmaking and we are delighted to say you could be part of this too.
Personal Matchmaking: Where Did It All Start?
For many people, of course, matchmaking has an ere of mystique and remains a new concept for many people looking for love. Most have grown up with online dating sites ever since Kiss.com was launched in the U.K. in 1997, and more recently smartphone apps which began appearing from around 2012, which have been at the forefront of the dating scene.
It’s often only when something worrying happens on a date, or someone has seen an article about online dating and dating apps having one of the fastest growing romance crime rates in the country, that they begin searching for alternatives. It’s at that point typically that people find out that personal matchmaking is an option, and will learn about how it works, and that it’s attracting more and more people every day.
Personal matchmaking has actually been around for centuries, with the very first dating agency (known as a matrimonial agency in those days) opening its doors as long ago as 1705 in London in the reign of George II – which was before the formation of the United Kingdom itself, with the union between England and Scotland happening in 1707.
Dating gained a lot of ground in the 20th century, particularly in the USA initially, with Dating Agencies springing up in many major cities to try to mitigate the loss of American lives in the 1st World War.
Britain followed suit in the 1930s when Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver opened the doors of ‘The Marriage Bureau’ in Bond Street, Mayfair, which thrived for more than 50 years. Then, with John Aspinall’s Dateline company being launched in 1966, as the World’s first computerised dating service. So yes, personal matchmaking has been around for a long time and has most certainly stood the test of time. We believe this for one simple reason – it works well and participants appreciate the close working relationship they have with their personal matchmaker and also the additional safety available through the use of a matchmaker.
As dating in the U.K. gathered momentum in the 1980s, 1990s, and the early years of the new millennium, Attractive Partners was one of the companies at the forefront of it all. Attractive Partners was established in 2003 and was the brainchild of Liz Fogarty in the town of Alcester, Warwickshire (part of the Stratford upon Avon District) and is still at the same location today.
The company grew exponentially and achieved much success in those early years, developing an excellent name in the industry in doing so, and that still very much applies in 2024 and beyond.
What Sets Attractive Partners Apart as an Introduction Agency?
So, what is it that makes Attractive Partners so different and enables us to get such startling results? For me it is a combination of issues, coming together in the right way. These are as follows:
- These days, with the online dating/dating app crime rate being one of the fastest growing in the country, and fraud and scamming a major problem on so many sites, we offer a safer alternative — an opportunity to work with a matchmaker, an acknowledged expert. Someone who knows the market and how it works, but perhaps most importantly knows how to get the right results.
- Keeping you safe from dating predators in the dating process is also incredibly important. The burgeoning crime rate is a thorny problem within internet dating, but so is fraud, with more than £300 million lost to scammers in 2022, and it is a problem that does not seem able to be controlled currently.
- Crime in general is also on the increase on the internet, even though only 16% is said to be reported to the Police. More than 6,000 cases were reported in the years 2017 to 2021, but that figure would more accurately look like 37,000 crimes if everything had been reported properly. 1 in 6 of these is sexually related.
So, the picture painted is not a pretty one, and one that constantly keeps the team at Attractive Partners on their toes. It obviously helps that we insist on interviewing every potential member personally and then carefully check them out through our in-house authentication and verification system. The system enables us to check residency, previous involvement in crime, and finally, solvency, which of course helps us to keep our database to the highest of standards and ensures that the calibre of people on there is far higher than you would be likely to find on an online site or dating app.
This, in turn, keeps us busy with a constant stream of new people seeking us out and enquiring, which gives us one of the largest databases in the dating industry of members who have been personally interviewed and vetted — and, your best chance of finding love and a quality new partner too.
What Type of People Join the Attractive Partners Dating Service?
We are often asked ‘What sort of people join Attractive Partners’? We are proud to say we attract enquiries from a wide variety of backgrounds, but predominantly, they are from a professional, business, or academic background. They are often comfortably off and are looking for a partner who is an equal, in terms of stature, both financially and in terms of their standing in the community. Usually, they also have the common theme that they are genuinely looking for a partner of quality, someone who is attractive, from a similar age group, with the sort of qualities, background, and characteristics they can resonate with, and with similar interests. At Attractive Partners that is always our goal.
Of course, we cannot absolutely guarantee you are going to find ‘the one’ — it does not work like that on all occasions, but our matchmaking team are remarkably successful and change many lives each week with successful matches. Perhaps you might be our next success story and there is nothing we would enjoy more than that!
So, in answer to the original question: What Is the best way to find love in time for Christmas? Well, we believe it would be through personal matchmaking and working closely with one of our elite matchmakers. They would get to know you really thoroughly through your in-depth personal interview, present you at your absolute best on the personal profile that they would create for you, and then begin to search for the absolute best potential partner we can find for you.
Can we make it in time? Yes, I believe we could, even if we are already into November. November is one of our busiest months historically, with others also beginning to turn their thoughts towards Christmas, so it can be a particularly good time to join Attractive Partners. We have plenty of choices in terms of matches, and it also gets you into the swing of how things work, prior to the New Year and the months of January and February — our peak months of the year traditionally.
Taking the Next Steps to Find Your Partner in Time for Christmas
So, why not make contact for an initial exploratory conversation with one of our friendly membership advisers. It is their role to field initial enquiries to the company (we usually receive between 350 and 500 every month) and to describe, without any obligation whatsoever, how we work and most importantly whether or not our executive matchmaking service could work for you.
There is no rush for you to decide whether you would like to go ahead, but if you do then you can rest assured that we will be doing our absolute best for you throughout your matchmaking membership, with the aim of bringing a potentially wonderful partner into your life.
It is amazingly easy to start a conversation with us, as our phones are answered in the UK by a friendly voice from 9am until 9pm every day, even at the weekend and on many bank holidays, with Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Years Day and Easter Sunday being the only exceptions. Our aim is to be around at times that people want to talk and ask us about memberships, so please don’t hesitate to pick up the phone and try us at our expense on 0800 644 4140, or complete our contact form and we would be happy to ring you. We endeavour to respond within 2 working hours. We look forward to hearing from you!
