Astrix…you are on to something! (I am BH married for 10 yrs now, so I’m obviously not into shidduchim, and) everytime I hear of singles/shidduch meetings I always think it’s for people who are NOT heimish/yeshivish/or anyone considered really frum. But maybe when done in a proper setting, with the right people, as you suggested, such a thing can kick off- even for the frummest!
LSH: very true, with younger children (in their 20’s) in shidduchim. However, some people are reaching an age, or had reached an age where parents are not the ones talking with the shadchanim anymore, it’s THEY themselves who are talking with shaddchonim and doing the ‘homework’.
shlishi: Nowadays, you can’t pull off that shtick anymore. too bad though.