Bloom match making

About Paula

We are a professional matchmaking service helping busy singles find their match. We are located in the DMV but we can help you anywhere in the world.  Let us help you find your soulmate.

About Paula Pardel

Professional Matchmaker Ready to Help You Find Love

I’ve always loved connecting people. Back in 2018, upon seeing an ad for a matchmaker, I knew this could be my calling. So, I set out on a new career.  While the original matchmaking company folded, I did not! I took the opportunity to start my own matchmaking company and it was, in fact, immediate love.

Bloom Matchmaking became reality in 2020. Okay, perhaps not the best timing, but throughout the pandemic and its aftermath, we’ve thrived and so did the many lasting relationships Bloom Matchmaking was responsible for arranging.

It’s my fervent belief that to doing things, you must do it right the first time. I also don’t deviate from my personal values, morals and ethics. So, a a matchmaker, I coach my clients to show up as their best selves and coach them throughout the dating process.  

I am very proud of what Bloom Matchmaking has accomplished. Over the years I’ve learned a lot and honed my skills in connecting the right people. I collaborate with a wonderful network of matchmakers all over the world. We offer each other advice and help matching clients. Bloom Matchmaking is where I help love bloom for my clients. Join me on the journey to find lasting love.

Bloom’s founder, Paula Pardel, devotes herself to helping people find true connection as safely and effectively as possible. Her determination and hard work have taken Bloom Matchmaking from a dream to a thriving business that successfully brings people together to form satisfying, long-lasting relationships.

Bloom’s expert staff designs personalized matchmaking experiences with the goal of finding your perfect match. Background checks, face-to-face interviews, and personality assessments are just the beginning of our proven process that connects you with safe, desirable, and compatible singles. With online dating and matchmaking apps, you don’t really know the people you’re meeting, and there’s no one to walk you through the process.
One of the many benefits of working with Bloom is that you work personally and individually with an experienced matchmaker. Plus, centrally located to accommodate in-person meetings with clients from around Virginia and the Washington, D.C., area. As we build relationships with our clients, we stay in touch regularly through phone calls, email, chats and additional in-person visits. You won’t find this kind of personalized service and attention with a dating app or the big, corporate matchmakers!

Our Offices

14321 Winter Breeze Drive, #47, Midlothian, VA 2311

249 Central Park Ave #300, Virginia Beach, VA 23462, United States

Meet Paula, Owner of Bloom Matchmaking

Paula is passionate about helping singles find true connection. She provides a fresh perspective on matchmaking by combining modern technology with time-tested intuition and experience.

Paula’s past work in the real estate and hospitality industries and her genuine love for people and their happiness led her to shift her talents into matchmaking, which she calls “the thing I was meant to do.” She is warm, eager, and genuine, and she puts clients at ease with her empathy, her compassion and her positive spirit. She is committed to providing superlative service to each of her clients.

“My experience has taught me how important it is to be in a healthy relationship,” Paula says. “This makes me passionate about helping people find love – the right way, and with the right person.”

Paula is a devoted mother of two and lives in Central Virginia. She is a member of Matchmakers Alliance and regularly attends the Alliance’s conferences for training and mentoring by colleagues with generations of experience. Locally, she is a member of ChamberRVA, Richmond’s Chamber of Commerce, and Synapse, an organization that helps businesses and nonprofits connect to foster greater economic and community development.

Meet Our Relationship Team

Hunt Ethridge

Dating & Relationship Expert

Award-winning dating and relationship expert, Hunt Ethridge brings over ten years of experience helping people become the best, most dateable versions of themselves.

Erika Ettin

Online Dating Expert & Dating Coach

Erika Ettin is an online dating expert and dating coach who helps people navigate the world of online dating.

Sara Ellen

Official Photographer

Wedding • Branding • Beauty & Boudoir Photography

Join Our Database

Setting up your profile is easy. Just fill in the fields below and we’ll reach out to you right away.

Bloom match making

Hunt Ethridge

Dating & Relationship Expert

Award-winning dating and relationship expert, Hunt Ethridge brings over ten years of experience helping people become the best, most dateable versions of themselves. Whether he’s helping clients learn how to calm first-date jitters, giving advice on how to communicate more effectively or how to be aware of body language, Hunt helps clients up their dating game. His coaching provides opportunities to build and elevate confidence, improve leadership skills, and interpersonal communication. And although Hunt focuses on helping clients polish these skills for their dating life, clients often comment that his coaching has had a positive effect on their other personal and professional goals. Hunt has been featured in The New York Times, Maxim, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal, and CNN. He was also awarded as one of the top Dating Experts at the 2016 US Dating Awards.
Bloom match making

Erika Ettin

Online Dating Expert and Dating Coach

Erika Ettin is an online dating expert and dating coach who helps people navigate the world of online dating. Her expertise includes profile creation, photo selection and photography, message writing, and date planning. She is also the author of the book Love at First Site: Tips & Tales for Online Dating Success from a Modern-Day Matchmaker and the co-host of the popular dating podcast So, We Met Online… Erika’s work has been featured in media around the country, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, and Ask Men, and she currently writes a weekly syndicated dating column. Erika studied economics at Cornell University and received her MBA from Georgetown. She has worked with over 1000 clients and is responsible for relationships, marriages, and the confidence some people simply need to “get out there.”
Bloom match making

Sara Ellen

Official Photographer

Sara Ellen is a licensed cosmetologist and professional photographer. She naturally has an eye for beauty and a soft spot for Love!