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A dating agency is a business which acts as a service for matchmaking between potential couples, with a view toward romance and/or marriage between them. .
Types
A face-to-face business with an actual location - where men and women come in person and ask a matchmaker to help them find a potential partner. Usually these do best when there are a large number of members from a particular, close-knit local community group.
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An online internet dating agency - a website where people register, post their profiles and then contact other members who have signed up with the agency. Many sites will leave member profiles online long after lapsed members have left. An agency that teaches confidence to men and women - these agencies take members out and teach them how easy it is to meet somebody in public such as a bar, club, restaurant or shopping location.
A dating agency that arranges speed dating sessions - often on a monthly basis. This is a new trend, partly based on recent research that shows that many people "make up their minds" about a potential partner very quickly, based on superficial traits. |
An international dating agency (more accurately called a marriage agency) - which introduces men from developed countries to a potential mail-order bride. With a well-established agency an average man can find himself a wife from an economically depressed country. Most popular brides are from Philippines, China, Russia and Ukraine. However, scams and swindles are common, and it can be increasingly difficult to get the man's host country government to accept that his marriage is a valid one. |
