Hi Hayley, thank you so much for joining me. Tell me a little bit about yourself and Bowes-Lyon Partnership I am the founder and director of Bowes-Lyon Partnership, an elite personal matchmaking agency for the busy professional, with offices in London and Surrey. My background is in VIP customer service, which I learned over in America in the hospitality industry. America leads the way in customer service, especially for the luxury end of the market. In my twenties I moved into events and became a wedding planner. This was my first move into the romance industry and I helped couples, including ..read more

Swiping, benching, ghosting… Dating apps can be so cold. Now that disgruntled singles are realising the best way to meet someone is in real life, will a new world of ‘offline dating’ bring people back together? Annie Lord Sun 20 Nov 2022 09.00 GMT I can’t remember how we started talking, only that we were sitting on the rooftop of a friend’s house with the fake leather of the sofa underneath us tacky on the back of my thighs. He wasn’t my usual type. In his vintage football shirt and mullet he looked a bit like an art school student, but he was funny enough to make up for it. We spoke about th ..read more

Tired of aimlessly swiping on dating apps, one single woman tries things the old-fashioned way I sit sipping coffee at the boardroom table of a swanky Mayfair office. The vaulted ceiling looms far above me, and outside the bustle of money – and people involved in the art of making it – is palpable. I imagine what deals might have been done across the polished smooth wood of this grand oval table. What negotiations might have been made. Things gained, things lost. And I think about my own concessions and victories in the thing I’m here to talk about: love. You can call it what you will: dating ..read more

How do you find love later in life? Is it possible to get a second, or even third chance? We asked the expert, matchmaker Hayley Bystram from the Bowes-Lyon Partnership. Finding love later in life is so different from our early 20s. And to some people, it might even feel impossible. Can we even feel the same way, or find someone wonderful a second or third time round? Hayley Bystram, founder of the elite dating agency Bowes-Lyon Partnership doesn’t just believe it’s possible; she knows it! She’s helped many happy couples find love, working with men and women from their 30s to their ..read more

After getting divorced in her late twenties, Hayley Bystram founded the Bowes-Lyon Partnership, which specialises in elite matchmaking. Ten years on, she reflects on how the business is changing lives for the better What inspired you to go into matchmaking? I found myself divorced after a 10-year relationship in my late twenties. Meanwhile, all my friends were getting married and that created an issue whereby I wasn’t entirely sure how to meet new people. I was a busy working professional, looking at online dating and there wasn’t really a great deal of matchmaking for my age bracket. Back th ..read more

IMAGE CREDIT: JOJO COOPER PHOTOGRAPHY BY LLM REPORTERS ON 14TH DECEMBER 2020 We caught up with Hayley Bystram, founder of Bowes-Lyon Partnership, an elite matchmaking agency that works with ambitious, educated, cash-rich, time-poor professionals to help them find long-lasting and meaningful relationships. Since founding the company in 2009, Hayley has helped hundreds of clients – from successful entrepreneurs in their 30s to FTSE CEOs in their 70s – to discreetly find love. My car of choice I drive a Land Rover Discovery Sport. Living in Surrey, on the borders of London, it’s a great country-t ..read more

This was an email from a member who joined us this year. Just four simple words that were music to my ears.   I’ve met and interviewed hundreds, if not thousands, of people over the past 11+ years of running Bowes-Lyon… Read more › The post Are you ready to start dating? appeared first on Bowes-Lyon Partnership ..read more

I was delighted to be interviewed and featured on the website of James Preece, the UK’s leading dating coach. He asked some in-depth questions about my background in the industry, my favourite stories about members and my thoughts about the… Read more › The post Matchmaker Spotlight Interview with Hayley Bystram – jamespreece.com appeared first on Bowes-Lyon Partnership ..read more

Bowes-Lyon Partnership are delighted to be working with James Preece – one of the World’s leading Dating Experts and Dating Coaches. All new members will receive a complimentary coaching session with James, as part of their membership package. James has… Read more › The post Bowes-Lyon Partnership works with James Preece – the UK’s leading Dating Coach appeared first on Bowes-Lyon Partnership ..read more

As the year draws to a close, we thought we would recap on the dating terms of 2017; the “we’ve all been” there ones, the fun ones and the downright outrageous ones! Benching Benching is when you are left on… Read more › The post A-Z of Dating Terms appeared first on Bowes-Lyon Partnership ..read more