$200K for a date? That’s just the price of true love, say NYC’s top matchmakers
NY Post
Ask any fed-up single what the NYC dating scene is like today, and you’ll most likely get the same response — it’s chaotic, messy and the apps are a drag.
No one wants to commit. Hookup culture is at full speed. And ghosting is at an all-time high.
As a result, desperate Big Apple singles are seeking alternatives in their city-wide search for love and placing their trust — and considerable funds — into the hands of professional matchmakers.
Elliot, a Big Apple-based former attorney turned house-flipper, made a promise to himself that if he were still single by his 40th birthday, he would succumb to handing his love life over to a professional matchmaker.
After interviewing with three different high-end matchmaking services in late 2020 and early 2021, the now 45-year-old signed up to be a part of the free matchmaking database of London-founded agency Maclynn (formerly the Vida Consultancy) to be placed in the agency’s complimentary pool of potential daters, and met with Carly Spindel, half of NYC’s Janis Spindel Serious Matchmaking mother-daughter team.
Though Elliot, who preferred to go by his first name, was initially “more than willing” to pay the hefty $25,000 fee for a starting contract at the time, he quickly realized the service was “everything I didn’t want.”
