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What is Stopping You Finding Love?
Any of us can have something that holds us back from taking action, and to minimize its power over us we need to confront it. What, in your present situation, is blocking change – the change from being in a single state to in a relationship?
How to Meet Your Forever After
As the buzz of the royal wedding between Prince Harry and Megan Markle is being fluttered throughout the country How easy is it to find your Prince or Princess?
Best Matchmaker – Drawing Down the Moon
We are delighted to announce that Drawing Down the Moon Matchmaker Gillian McCallum has been awarded Best Matchmaker 2018
London’s Most Romantic Restaurants Revealed
At Drawing Down the Moon, we think it is really important that a first date lasts a maximum of 90 minutes and involves two drinks at the most.
Building First Date Confidence
One of the worst things about dating, which can prevent the date from even happening in the first place, is nerves.
Should You Have Sex on the First Date?
Ex headhunter Gillian McCallum and now CEO reveals how to make the most of your first date, what to wear and even what not to say.
Why You need to date shorter now
When you think about it, Mr. Darcy, is arguably the most irresponsible man on the planet. Date successfully by including shorter men.
What is Phantoming?
If you thought that ghosting was the pinnacle of dating brutality, allow me to introduce you to ghosting’s manipulative cousin, ‘phantoming’.
Breadcrumbing – The Red Flag in Dating
Breadcrumbing is the most brutal dating tactic yet. If you thought ghosting was the latest dodgy dating tactic, you will be surprised to hear that bread crumbing has a far more divisive approach.
New Year, New Dating
Welcome to the month of January 2017; a bitterly cold reality check as we catapult out of the salacious haze of the festive season...
Why men love bitches
Do you surreptitiously think catty thoughts? Do you think that selfish people live longer? Overall, would you consider yourself a little bit of a ‘bitch’?
Love and Friends
Sometimes an act of kindness on the streets of London by a complete stranger can make life in city seem so much more bearable and friendlier.
Keeping It Real
I haven’t had the best luck with phones; my most recent telephonic debacle led me to the ground floor of Selfridges in pursuit of yet another phone.
A Brilliant Book on How the Early London Dating Agencies Worked
Penrose Halson is the author of this fascinating book about The Marriage Bureau, a war time matchmaking agency based in Bond Street.
Friendship Approval in Love
Let’s face it, your best friend has probably been around longer than your boyfriend
Drawing Down the Moon Wins Best Date Coach
Prestigious International award for our founder, matchmaker and now International Dating Coach 2016. The premier dating agency in London.
How to Find Love
Actually your true love doesn’t exist. Or rather it doesn’t exist out there, waiting to be discovered. There is no destiny of love...
Shopping for Love?
Look past the really quite unfortunate footwear (you can deal with that later – that’s what Selfridges is for!)
Drawing Down the Moon – Best Matchmaker at the UK Dating Awards
Mary Balfour, our MD, had won the Founder's Award for 30 years of service to dating and then DDM won Matchmaking Agency of the Year.
Is your dating type serving you?
The French writer, Proust, in Swann’s Way talks of the protagonist feeling his deepest love for a woman who was not “his type”.
UK Dating Awards Winner
Drawing Down the Moon has been shortlisted for Best Matchmaking Agency of the Year and I’ve been shortlisted for Dating Expert of the Year.
Share a glass of mulled wine with someone special
We're currently offering an exclusive Autumn discount of 20% off all memberships until Friday 2nd October 2015.
Dating After Divorce
You are recently divorced and ready make the first steps to finding new love. You never know what will happen if you just take a chance.
Does Money Cause Problems in the Search for Love?
Everyone who seeks our help to find love has a story to tell about why the last relationship failed.
How to date differently
No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.
Matchmaker Approved First Date Outfit Tips
So, we’ve been over the basics on what to wear on a date before: keep it smart but comfortable, don’t bare too much flesh, make sure it’s CLEAN etc.
Busting the Myths in Dating and Love
Love Myths – If it’s not perfect in the beginning, there’s no point. Here at Drawing Down the Moon we’ve seen it time and time again...
Matchmaker Tips on How to Date
We've come up with a few #dateideas that are just little out of the ordinary. Things that keep you moving, keep those energy levels up and give you and your partner a truly memorable date
Dating Terminology To Help Your Online Profile Shine
Trying to follow the abbreviations used in online dating sites can be, well, trying. It's easy to get lost in the slang that other members of the virtual dating community use as shorthand
How to Ensure a Second Date
The end of the first date is often the best time to secure the second. But if that didn't happen, text the following day...
Would You #DateTheseShoes?
They say so much about who we are and what’s important to us. Here at Drawing Down the Moon we’ve been discussing the importance of good footwear and the impression...
Getting To know someone before relationship commitment
One of the problems our DDM experts often see in our clients' past relationships is the 'falling too hard too fast' scenario.
Matchmaking Profile in the Marylebone Journal
Last week, amidst the craziness that pervades any introduction agency, I took some time out to meet up with the lovely Jean-Paul from the Marylebone Journal.
How to Find Love
Dating in London? Dating in this beautiful city of ours is hard. Yes there are lots of intelligent, attractive, available men and women out there, but how do...
Drawing Down the Moon, The Thinking Persons Matchmaker
Does intelligence come above everything else when you are looking for a partner? We are a thinking persons dating agency that could help sapiosexuals.
How to Find The Love of Your LIfe
With so many lovely people in the world why are so many of us attracted to the ones who make us unhappy? Find the partner that will love you.
How to Date at Christmas
It's party season and opportunities abound for meeting interesting, and hopefully available, people. The Christmas party can be a prolific hunting ground for a potential mate.
London’s Most Romantic Christmas Date Ideas
'Tis the season for some festive frivolity, which might mean you are looking for some Christmas-themed dates over the next few weeks. You know, something to get you and your date into the holiday spirit...
London’s Most Romantic Cinema Dates
One of the best points of being in or near a city like London is that is is still possible to track down something of the old fashioned way of doing things. The large metropolitan audience allows some to swim against the tide...
London’s 5 Most Romantic Walking Dates
In London, we're blessed with lots of beautiful parks, which means it is easy to head out of the hustle and bustle to find fresh air, a bit of greenery...
