As we are organising the Vort for children’s forthcoming engagement we will also be having a separate informal l’chaim for our children’s friends.
Maybe I am idealistic or living on a ” fantasy island” but as I do get busy planning our children’s weddings I have always made time to think of their single friends and arrange informal introductions at a celebratory party, nothing staged, just young frum people getting together to celebrate a friend’s happiness. As we do not mix at our weddings, a casual l’chaim offers the chance to meet someone suitable. It is a perfect avenue for young people to meet and can be a relaxed setting for those less confident to meet a potential partner.
I know it can work, as it has done before, with one chuppah leading to another.I am not alone in doing this, I suspect it has been done since time immemorial. Of course official shadchanim have their role to play too, it needs to be handled delicately.