Sarah Wells

The Dating Ring

— everything old is new once again! Who doesn’t have a mummy, aunt or relative who would like to “fix you up”? Not to stress, granny, Lauren Kay, Brown graduate and modern-day matchmaker, will be the response to the prayers.

The Dating Ring

, not too long ago started by Brooklyn resident Lauren Kay, provides another spin on an old career: matchmaking.

The Dating Ring

is Lauren’s answer to the flawed and isolated monotony of online dating websites.

“internet dating takes lots of time and work,” claims the passionate Lauren. “folks in their unique 20s have no idea what they are selecting. Besides must you blindly seek out yourself on all of these internet sites, you don’t even know what you’re looking for.” Lauren supplies an alternative to the challenges people face wanting to foster relationships through digital internet dating sites: private service.

Lauren interviews each candidate in a group environment and asks different personal concerns, from family members life to last online dating encounters to future goals. If she places a potential couple, Lauren will create a romantic date. More frequently, however, Lauren arranges groups of six individuals she believes are appropriate and directs all of them on a “group big date.” After the night, Lauren requires each one of the woman applicants to deliver feedback via a survey, with questions such as for example “Are you willing to see this individual again? If not, why?”

To date, Lauren’s

Dating Ring

has actually developed one pleased couple. To date, they have been nonetheless going strong. Lauren is now undergoing creating a “technological structure” via an algorithm on the basis of the opinions of the woman candidates to make sure a love match.

Lauren created

SmartSitting

, a top-quality Manhattan-based informative babysitting and nanny service, while attending Brown University. This woman is currently the administrator movie director. Lauren extensively vets and really interviews the babysitting and nanny applicants. To date,

SmartSitting

has actually a system of 250 fully processed caregivers.

While at Brown, Lauren majored in American Studies with a self-initiated quantity in Love. She educated a category called “The research, Psychology, and Philosophy of How and exactly why We fall-in Love.” Lauren can be applied the scientific, mental, and philosophical areas of love she learned in college to

The Ring

.

What units

The Dating Ring

aside from internet dating service Why personalized solution Lauren supplies. Lauren gives innovation and crisp ideas to the online game of love. Speaking-to Lauren, I couldn’t assist but consider Audrey Tautou in

Amélie

, the lovable French

gamine

who plays matchmaker to her lovelorn clients in her own Paris café. Lauren Kay, however, is actually a business owner just who employs the woman expertise in order to an analytic, socially-intelligent way of the unreasonable, nerve-racking dating game.

Any time you missed

The Dating Ring

‘s launch party at

The Delancey

, see

The Dating Ring

‘s web site for future love events: thedatingring.com

Here’s the website link for

SmartSitting

: smartsitting.com