The Awards & Recognitions

  The series follows fifteen men and women, all from the same metropolitan area, hoping to find love. For 10 days, the men and women date each other in purpose-built "pods" where they can talk to each other through a speaker but not see each other. They are initially paired in a speed-dating format but later can choose to have longer dates. The daters may extend a marriage proposal whenever they feel ready. A couple meets face-to-face only after a marriage proposal is accepted. The engaged couples then head to a couples' retreat at a resort. During this trip, they get to know their partners and have their first opportunity to be physically intimate. They also meet the other couples participating in the experiment.

Following the couples' retreat, the engaged couples move to the same apartment complex in the city where they live. While at the apartments, they meet their partners' friends and families and learn more about their partners' lives, exploring issues such as finances, recreation, personal habits, and their ultimate primary residence. They also plan weddings to be held at the end of four weeks. During this wedding planning period, the group of women goes wedding dress shopping and the men go suit shopping together, bringing a few friends and family members along. They also make choices such as the design and flavor of their wedding cake. At the altar, each participant decides whether or not to say "I do."

 Bellevue, February 06, 2023. -- The Marriage Mate was announced as a winner of the 2023 WeddingWire Couples’ Choice Awards®, an accolade representing the top wedding professionals across the board in quality, service, responsiveness, and professionalism reviewed by couples on WeddingWire, a trusted wedding vendor marketplace. 

Meet The Elite Podcast has been ranked in the top 3% of most popular podcasts out of 3,005,585 podcasts globally. By the independent third-party site Listen to Notes. Widely regarded as the best podcast search engine and database in the world.

 Bellevue, December 08, 2021. -- The Marriage Mate was announced as a winner of the 2021 WeddingWire Couples’ Choice Awards®, an accolade representing the top wedding professionals across the board in quality, service, responsiveness, and professionalism reviewed by couples on WeddingWire, a leader in the $200 billion global wedding planning industry.

WeddingWire Couples’ Choice Awards® Bellevue, January 21, 2020. -- The Marriage Mate has announced a winner of the 2020 WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards®, an accolade representing the top wedding professionals across the board in quality, service, responsiveness, and professionalism reviewed by couples on WeddingWire.

The Wedding Wire Couples’ Choice Awards recognize the top 5% of local wedding professionals on Wedding Wire that demonstrate excellence in quality, service, responsiveness, and professionalism. Winners are selected solely based on reviews from over 1.2 million newlyweds and are determined by a combination of excellence in four factors: overall rating, the total number of reviews, review performance from 2016, and consistency of reviews from year to year. 

We are happy to announce that The Marriage Mate is among the very best Officiants within the WeddingWire Network, which includes leading wedding planning sites WeddingWire, Martha Stewart Weddings, Project Wedding, and Weddingbee. We want to thank our past clients for nominating us to receive the Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011.

The Marriage Mate, Brooke Bakogeorge, stands among the top five percent of wedding professionals in the WeddingWire community, representing quality and service excellence within the wedding industry. Awards were given to the top wedding professionals across 20 service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers, and were based on their overall professional achievements throughout the past year

We are excited to announce that The Marriage Mate has been nominated for King 5's Best of Western Washington Awards in 2009, 2010, and 2011!

13 Jan 2011 - MomentVille.com, one of the world's leading wedding websites, has just announced that The Marriage Mate has been selected for the 2011 Wedding Professional Hot List.

The annual Wedding Professional Hot List recognizes excellence within the wedding industry, as determined by reviews from tens of thousands of brides and grooms. The Marriage Mate was among the best-reviewed vendors in their area in the past year.

 Geoff Evason, MomentVille's CEO. "Highlighting the success of the top wedding professionals is an exciting way to spread the word and help newly engaged couples find the right professionals for their weddings."

The WeddingWire Bride's Choice Awards ™ recognizes the top local wedding professionals from the Wedding Wire Network that demonstrates excellence in quality, service, responsiveness, and professionalism.  Unlike other awards in which the organization selects winners, the Bride's Choice Awards are determined by recent reviews and extensive surveys from over 500, 000 newlyweds. This year's winners represent the top five percent of WeddingWire's vendor community, which consists of over 100,000 local wedding professionals nationwide. 

2009 Brides' Choice Award WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, just announced that The Marriage Mate, Brooke Bakogeorge has won the 2009 Bride’s Choice Awards™!

In its inaugural year, the Bride’s Choice Awards recognizes and honors vendors from the WeddingWire Network that demonstrate excellent quality of service, responsiveness, professionalism, the value of cost, and flexibility. This year’s recipients represent the top three percent of WeddingWire’s vendor community, which includes over 100,000 wedding vendors from across the US. That means The Marriage Mate, Brooke Bakogeorge is one of the very best Wedding Officiants. 

Timothy Chi, WeddingWire’s Chief Executive Officer. “This year’s recipients have set the bar high, exhibiting excellent service and expertise in the wedding industry.”

The Marriage Mate would like to thank our past clients for speaking on our behalf and helping us win the 2009 Bride’s Choice Award!