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Our Favourite Muddy Wedding Pics
We have had hundreds of weddings at Muddy Matches and have seen some great wedding pictures but the following three pictures really stood out for us for showing what a muddy wedding should really be about! › Continue reading
CLA Game Fair – Photos and Thank Yous
We’re back from another fantastic CLA Game Fair which this year was held in the grounds of the stunning Blenheim Palace.
Our Stand
An action-packed couple of days as always, we were on site from Thursday morning getting the Muddy Matches motorhome in position and setting up our stand. We were a bit scared as it chucked it down with rain for most of the day but luckily the weather cleared before everyone arrived on the Friday.
In fact, we were blessed with the weather as it was an absolute scrocher for most of the weekend and there were nearly 150,000 visitors to the show over the three days – the second highest number of visitors in the show’s 53-year history!
We all had a great time on our stand as literally hundreds of our members (past, present and joined-at-the-Game Fair) popped in to have a chat. We signed up hundreds of new members and were giving out a week’s free subscription to current members who came to say hello so, if you’re still looking to meet rural singles who love the muddy lifestyle, now is an excellent time to be using the site. Why not do a search for our ‘newest members’ and send some of them a message to welcome them to the site?
Success Stories
Just a couple of years ago, we were celebrating the fact that 17 couples came up to us at the Game Fair to say that they were getting married or living together. Can you believe then that around 65 couples came up to us this year to say that they were either engaged or married?! There were also a lot more who had recently met and a few others who were there on a first date, inspired perhaps by Gareth and Kelly’s story that had featured in the Daily Telegraph the week before?
To read more of our countryside dating success stories, please click here.
One couple, Charles and Sophie, met on the website in 2008 and came to tell us about it at the 2009 Game Fair. Two years on, we were delighted to hear that they had got married – a big congratulations to them both!
Charles & Sophie in 2009
Charles & Sophie in 2011
The ‘Muddy AfFair’ Dating Show
Packed audience
A big thank you to the three strapping chaps – Jake, Jonathan and Martin – who took part in our dating show in the Game Fair Theatre on the Saturday. They were fantastic fun and completely entered into the spirit of the show to whoops of approval from the packed audience.
Claire with Jonathan Hannah
Hosted by Apprentice finalist Claire Young, each chap took their turn to try and impress a group of about 20 country girls with a view to taking one of them on a date at the end of the show. First up was Jonathan, who ended up picking Hannah, then Jake who picked Stephanie and finally Martin who picked Mary.
Jonathan and Hannah
Jake and Stephanie
Martin and Mary
After the show, the three couples went off to enjoy a bottle of champage and a yummy picnic in the grounds of Blenheim Palace. A massive thank you to Pipers Crisps, Lymn Bank Farm Cheese Company, Mr Pitchfork’s Pickles, Deli Farm Charcuterie, Belleau Smokery, Loopy Lisa’s Fudge and Breckland Orchard who were all exhibiting at the Game Fair and kindly supplied the goodies for the picnic.
Next year’s Game Fair is being held at Belvoir Castle near Grantham, Leicestershire – see you there?
Check Out Our Latest Success Stories!
Have you taken a look at our Success Stories page recently?
There are some really great stories on there, fantastic wedding pictures and some snaps of some of the many Muddy Matches couples who came up to say hi to us at the CLA Game Fair.
It’s well worth taking a look if you have got a couple of minutes.
Click here to visit our countryside online dating Success Stories page.
Mud Lovers Ball – Photos and Feedback
Thanks to everyone who came to the Mud Lovers Ball on Saturday – it was fab to see so many of you getting in the party spirit!
We'll post a couple of photos from the night below but also wanted to take this opportunity to share some of the great feedback we've been receiving – we're delighted that you enjoyed yourselves!
Some of your feedback from the night:
"Thank you very much for an evening of huge fun on Saturday. Enjoyed so much, the ambiance, meeting new people and the fact they were really good humoured. In fact the event reminded me of university ball and YFC days! How about a similar event towards the end of the year / new year? I sure you’d have plenty of takers! Much looking forward to another MM event."
"Awesome night – thanks girls! And I've got a date on Saturday!!"
"I just wanted to say thanks for running such a great event. I had a fantastic time, met loads of new people and would recommend it to anyone else who asked."
"Thank you for putting on a great event on Saturday, it really was a good night!"
"The Ball was great fun, thoroughly enjoyed myself – spent all evening chatting, dancing, bouncing* & shooting with a lovely chap."
"Thank you once again for a brilliant event which really had a very warm atmosphere."
"What a great event you organised the other day! Congratulations for all the effort you must have gone through and thank you for pursuading me to come, I had a great time and made quite a few sociable friends as a result! Keep it up! "
"Just a quick thank you for a fab night on saturday night. It was brilliant, totally like a YFC party everybody was so friendly and the games were such an ice breaker. Next year I think we'll bring more of the muddy theme into it. Great to me the Eastern rep, she was lovely too. "
*In case you're wondering, we had a bouncy castle!!
Photo Call – Royal Wedding Fever
You’d have to have been living in a nuclear bunker for the last few months not to know that there is a certain Royal Wedding happening this Friday (29th April).
Love it or hate it, it’s fast approaching and the whole world has gone Will and Kate crazy! We thought we’d throw in our tuppence worth by celebrating some of the lovely Wills and Kates we’ve got registered on the website.
If you’d like to get in touch with any of them, just click on their photo.
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