About TrustedMatchmakers
We're on a mission to help singles find their perfect professional matchmaker. Our directory connects you with working professionals who specialize in creating lasting, meaningful relationships.
Our Mission
In a world of endless dating apps and superficial connections, TrustedMatchmakers exists to bring back the art of meaningful matchmaking. We believe that finding your life partner shouldn't be left to algorithms alone.
Professional matchmakers offer something unique: personalized attention, expert guidance, and access to curated networks of quality singles. But finding the right matchmaker can be overwhelming.
That's where we come in. TrustedMatchmakers is the premier directory for discovering, comparing, and connecting with professional matchmakers who specialize in various niches - from executive matchmaking to faith-based services, LGBTQ+ specialists to over-50 dating experts.
Who Runs This Directory
TrustedMatchmakers is built and maintained by Cassindy Chao, a third-generation matchmaker and founder of AWM Love.
We think you should know that before you read anything else on this site. A directory is only worth as much as the judgement behind it, and that judgement comes from someone who does this work rather than someone aggregating reviews from a distance.
Listings here are free. There is no charge to be included and no charge to have your listing corrected. If you are a matchmaker and something on your listing is wrong, tell us and we will fix it.
How we make money. When we introduce you to a matchmaker, that firm may pay us a referral fee. It never changes who we recommend, and we would rather you knew before you take our advice than after.
AWM Love is listed in this directory and is labelled owner-operated everywhere it appears, including on the city pages where it is featured. We would rather you knew that up front than discovered it later. See the listing.
Our Values
Everything we do is guided by these core principles that put your journey to love first.
Trust & Verification
We thoroughly vet every matchmaker on our platform to ensure they meet our high standards for professionalism and service quality.
Meaningful Connections
We believe everyone deserves to find lasting love. Our platform connects you with professionals dedicated to creating meaningful relationships.
Personalized Service
We understand that finding love is personal. Our directory helps you find matchmakers who specialize in your specific needs and preferences.
Excellence & Quality
We partner with the best matchmakers in the industry, from boutique services to established agencies with decades of experience.
Transparency
We provide clear, honest information about services, pricing, and processes so you can make informed decisions.
Innovation
We continuously improve our platform to better serve you, combining traditional matchmaking wisdom with modern technology.
Our Story
We are matchmakers. We do this work because we care about people, and because we think finding your person is one of the few decisions that shapes everything else: your happiness, your health, your family, and in a quiet way the health of the society all of us live in.
We also know a lot of very good matchmakers. What we kept seeing was a disconnect. Singles who would genuinely benefit from working with one had no way to find the right one, and no reliable picture of how any of it works. The profession is widely misunderstood, and much of what is written about it online is written by someone selling something.
There is real structure behind this work, and knowing about it changes how you read any matchmaker's website. Two organisations matter most, and we note on a firm's listing where it holds either.
Matchmaking is not new and it is not unusual. Many cultures have always welcomed it and still do. In others it faded from everyday life, though the values underneath it did not: that choosing a partner is too important to leave to chance, that someone who knows you can see what you cannot, and that being introduced by a person who has your interests at heart beats sorting strangers alone.
So we built this directory. It covers more than 125 matchmakers, with what each practice actually does, who it serves and what to ask before you sign anything. Listings are free and no firm can buy its way in.
What the Credentials Mean
Two organisations shape this profession, and a firm's standing with either is worth knowing before you hire.
Global Love Institute
A training body. It certifies matchmakers and dating coaches, and it is where a great many people entering the profession are taught. A current GLI certification tells you someone has been trained rather than simply started calling themselves a matchmaker. Certifications carry an expiry date, and we only show ones that are current.
Matchmakers Alliance
A membership body that skews senior. Its members tend to be established practitioners who share what they know and collaborate on searches, which is how a client of one practice often meets someone introduced by another. Our founder volunteers on its membership side.
How much weight to give them
Both tend to indicate more experience than their absence does. Neither is a guarantee. A certification says someone completed training; a membership says they joined an organisation and keep up with it. Neither says they will be good at finding your person, and plenty of excellent matchmakers hold neither, because they were doing this before either body existed.
Treat them the way you would treat a professional body in any other field: useful signal, not a substitute for asking the questions. Neither organisation endorses this directory, and we are not paid by either.
About the Founder
TrustedMatchmakers is built and maintained by Cassindy Chao, a third-generation Chinese 紅娘 and the founder of Ancient Wisdom Modern Love, an executive matchmaking practice serving San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York.
Before matchmaking she spent her career in finance as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan. She is a Wellesley College graduate and the author of Ancient Wisdom Modern Love: Chinese Wisdom for Dating Success (Stone Monkey Publishing, 2024), and speaks regularly on dating, connection and the blind spots accomplished people bring to their personal lives, including at the Harvard Club of New York. Her work has been featured by Business Insider, NBC News Daily and NewsNation.
She has been married for more than 27 years and is the mother of three young adults.
Why this matters, and what to watch for
Almost every “best matchmakers” list online is written by a matchmaking firm that ranks itself first, or by a site that does not say who runs it. This one is written by someone who does the work, which is what makes the guidance useful, and it is also a conflict of interest that you should know about rather than discover later.
Ancient Wisdom Modern Love is listed in this directory alongside every other firm, and labelled owner-operated wherever it appears. No firm can pay for a listing or for a better position in one. When we introduce you to a matchmaker, that matchmaker may pay us a referral fee, which never changes who we recommend or the price you pay.
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