About dating agency "From Russia With Love"

Era & Val's Story:

Let's introduce ourselves. I'm Val, an Australian, having lived there for over 35 years.
In 1993, I ended a ten-year relationship with an Australian woman. I went back to Ukraine & Russia, both for a business trip and to visit my Siberian childhood birth-place. As I travelled, I felt lonely and longed for a wife. I believed that "God can move mountains, but that I also needed to pick up a shovel and help!"

Part of my trip took me to Kyiv, in Ukraine, where Era and I met. Initially I stopped to ask her about an unusual mountainside monorail. (Incidentally, we thus found out it's far easier for a man and a woman to get to know each other, as they explore Kyiv together. It takes away all the awkwardness involved in other ways of communicating, giving you both a real-life experience of one another! )We were married the next year and have been in love ever since.

At first my wife also helped some of her personal friends to find good husbands in Australia! As senior secretary at the University of Kyiv, she was used to organizing things, so she started organizing husbands for her friends!! Word spread and we continue to provide the same personalized service, now also for men from the West, as well as women from the East.

Over our nine-years' experience working on a personal level, we have carried an extremely low overhead, particularly compared to the biggest original international marriage agencies. Their mega-sites are now so big, with vast data bases, that they can no longer realistically keep track of their ladies' status. These sites have a professional look, offering easy access to a vast pool of enticing women, but you're lucky to get a 10% return on any volume of letters you may send to these women. If you take an expensive over-seas tour to multi-day socials, 85% of the girls at these socials can be found the next night at a local disco for the price of cover charge at the door. So much for "professional image". By contrast we can go out of our way to give you very personalized and guaranteed service.

This means that it is now SAFE and EASY for you to come over to Ukraine with us, to find a bride without all the previous hassles and obstacles some of our clients and friends had when doing it independently, or with an agency that didn't have their interests at heart.