One private New York man has enlisted internationally renowned matchmaker Inga Verbeeck to help find the woman he hopes could be “the one.” This Labor Day weekend, the search begins in the Hamptons.
New York has always offered ways to meet: the apps, the set-ups, the hopeful seat at the bar or, at this time of year, a chance encounter somewhere Out East. But one New York man has decided that finding the right person deserves a little more thought.
His answer is Truth.Dare.Love, a new matchmaking game launching this Labor Day weekend in the Hamptons before appearing across New York City in September.
Truth.Dare.Love was conceived by a private New York man and is conducted with Inga Verbeeck, the matchmaker behind Ivy Relations. Behind the playfulness sits a search with an audience of one: somewhere between the city and the Hamptons is the woman he hopes to find, and he was never going to look for her on the apps.
Finding love, he believes, deserves more than swiping. Self-aware enough to know he may be looking in an impossibly specific way, yet romantic enough to believe she would do too, he decided to search on his own terms. So he made a game.
Truth.Dare.Love is a gentle rebellion against pixels and profiles. In true New York fashion, the city itself is in on it. She may find the game on a billboard she has passed a hundred times, between the pages of a book, on a matchbook at the bar or wrapped around a bouquet of flowers. Or perhaps a friend will send it to her with a simple message: “This is so you.”
Courtesy of Ivy Relations
Courtesy of Ivy RelationsThat is when the game begins. It opens with a choice: tell him something true, or take the dare, and he will do the same. Round by round, she discovers more about the man behind the search, his character, his tastes, his values and the life he hopes to share, while revealing more of herself. The idea is to know each other properly, to weigh real compatibility, before ever meeting.
It’s oddly intimate, maybe even old-fashioned, because there’s nothing public or performative about it.
Every answer goes straight to Ivy Relations. If Verbeeck and her team read between the lines and see a real possibility, they’ll reach out privately to see if an introduction makes sense. There’s no charge and no pressure; anyone can leave the game whenever they like. The man behind it all admits he’s not looking for just anyone. That’s why he’s turned to a matchmaker rather than rolling the dice online.
Verbeeck’s own path explains the approach. She has spent over two decades conducting private searches for clients across the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe. Named among the world’s leading matchmakers in the Spear’s 500, she is known for refusing to leave love to chance, nor to reduce it to a mathematics problem. She describes her work as not a formula, nor intuition alone, but the art and science of bringing two people together.
Which brings us back to the Hamptons.
Somewhere among everyone heading Out East this Labor Day weekend could be the woman this entire search was created to find.
For a man who has chosen to look beyond profiles and algorithms, perhaps that’s the point. She might stumble across the game herself. A friend might send it to her. Or perhaps she’ll be reading about it here.
Courtesy of Ivy Relations
Courtesy of Ivy RelationsThe rules are simple: pick Truth or Dare. Give an honest answer, or try something you wouldn’t normally choose for yourself. If Ivy Relations sees something real, they’ll make the introduction, privately, offline and away from the noise.
There’s only one way to find out.
Truth or Dare?
The search begins this Labor Day weekend at Truth.Dare.Love.
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