Oh what a night!

Like all good theatrical productions, it was difficult to take your eyes of the final couples for the last weekend of Tourism Victoria’s creative love campaign, Melbourne Match.  Each had a storyline that was just so exciting to watch.

The Sydney girls and Melbourne men introduced themselves at the Pompeii exhibition held at the regal Melbourne Museum. Our two competition winners, Carolyn and Christina were really excited with the possibility of getting to know Melbourne (and two of its gorgeous men) better.  While our celebrity ladies, Kirsty,Emily & Laurisa seemed equally as delighted, to be entertained by Melbourne’s dynamic arts scene on the arm of their individual dates.

As soon as the matching was done (to find out whom I match and why click here) it was Lights, Camera, Action as far as conversation and chemistry was concerned; and from that point on, the entertainment didn’t seem to stop…

Yet the part of the date that really got the couples hearts-a-flutter was the opening of the Smash Hit Broadway Musical Jersey Boys.

At intermission I saw the bubbly Emily & Travis reenacting a few dance moves with the help of Christina and Luke. Michael & Carolyn were chatting excitably to other members of the adoring audience and Laurisa & James had a can’t keep my eyes of you feel as they enjoyed a glass of champagne.

Later that evening, as I watched all the couples dancing and laughing with each other,at the official after party I couldn’t help but think:

In the words of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons “Oh What A Night”, it had turned out to be.

I matched Rachel with Alex because I felt both had a unique eye for appreciating aesthetic beauty and design. But did I get it right?  Did their Dali dates turn them into darlings? Click on the videos to find out.

I’m very excited to announce the female winners of the Melbourne Match competition. The gorgeous girls were chosen, by their creative attitude & applications and of course which lady matched best with the man they applied to win a creative date with.  Let the romance begin.

First dates can be nerve-racking (especially a blind date that’s being filmed and written about all over Australia).

Yet not unlike a good exhibition, just as first impressions can be complex they can also be breathtaking to watch. Nothing is more beautiful than seeing the instant chemistry of a well-matched couple laying eyes on each other for the first time.

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It’s been a big few weeks for Melbourne Match with the national media jumping on the Love Train and a debate heating up between Sydney and Melbourne as to who has the best male talent.

“Hands off our boys” quoted a furious Melbourne woman to the Herald Sun, while the Sun-Herald NSW uncovered a conspiracy to “lure Sydney’s women away”.

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