Marriage and dating agencies, as well as any phenomena have their own story of creation. Often you can find fact in historical documents that the first marriage agencies appeared in the middle of XVII century in England. An Englishman, Henry Robins in 1650 opened the first dating office, "the Bureau of meetings and addresses." Most of his customers were men.

Men dreamt to join their fate with noble maidens with exquisite manners, (it was considered a huge plus playing music, singing and dancing skills), who are humble and meek. Like today, the men paid much attention to the external beauty of the young and charming russian girls. The ladies also preferred the non-poor gentlemen, without gambling and bad habits. First of all, young women in marriage ads have focused attention on their eyes, hands, and wasp waist. Also at that time in England there were small tabloid press in which women and men can place small ads with marital character.

This tradition was borrowed from the Englishmen and the Germans. The Germans have improved this advertising technology; they released a single printed sheet of paper with information of persons interested to marry. Like the British, German marriage announcements described only the strong external characteristics of gentlemen and ladies, as well as a brief mention of their position in society. For example, “Merchant Schmidt is ready to join a fate with sweet-voiced lass of an angelic nature." A few years later started to appear some persons offering themselves to find a right partner for a daughter or a son of wealthy parents. They called themselves matchmakers. For providing these services they were receiving a good fee.

In the early twentieth century, such marital sheets, such matchmakers started to appear in Russia. However, in most cases, young people wanted to marry only girls with a large dowry, in order to open a joint business or vice versa, to survive at the expense of girls. For example, "Young, successful engineer, would like to get married a girl from a noble family, without the dubious past, with a capital of 70,000 roubles to open the Knitting Factory."

In the age of twenty-first century, almost nothing has changed in the marriage and dating agencies, they are "grown up", many of them were united into huge marriage and dating international network projects, actually people's attitude to life, morals, and principles were changed. They are improving every year, marriage agencies began to use modern dating technologies, but their main aim is the same - to connect lonely hearts, to introduce and bring together man and woman to each other, so they were able to create a happy family alliance