About the event

Join Lock and Key Events and Pre-Dating at our next  Houston Lock and Key Event. It's the interactive and FUN way to socialize, make new friends, meet your match....or just to have a great time!  We are THE Lock And Key Events you've heard about!  Grab a cocktail and get ready to Unlock Your Possibilities™.  Lock and Key Events transform a regular happy hour by adding the ULTIMATE ice breaker theme. It's like no other party you have ever attended!!!  With your lock or key, you now have a reason to talk to anyone and everyone you want!   What a great way to unwind after a long work week...or kick off a night on the town!

How It Works 
Every woman gets a padlock. Every man gets a key. Your goal is to match the right key with the right padlock. Every time you unlock you get a ticket that enters you into the drawing to win great prizes from our party sponsors. Prizes such as cold hard cash, hotel stays, dinners, tickets to popular things to do and more. After every unlock you get another lock or key so you can get back into the fray and meet more people!

Throughout your quest of 50, 100 or even more locks/keys, you are sure to meet tons of people of the opposite sex in a fun and different way. Lock and Key Events are a great alternative to the club scene and traditional socials since the fun and unique ice-breaker format ensures you meet tons of new people! 

We are a registered Trademark.

This event is geared toward busy professionals who are tired of internet dating and are looking for love in all the wrong places. We market through meetup and online. We have a mailing list of over 10,000 people in Houston alone. We are a national company in over 80 cities throughout the US and Hawaii. Our demographic tends to market to single men and women depending on the party to ages 25-60. Some of our parties are geared to a specific age range. Most tend to have an income of $35k or more. These people like to put their best foot forward,. They tend to be active individuals who love concerts, personal grooming as well as dining out. The men tend to be sports oriented and the women like the spa. Our event is not like your typical single's event. Here is a little of what other's say about us:

The next Lock and Key party takes place Sunday, May 26 from 12:30 to 3pm at the Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club and also launches Darsonval’s Meet the Matchmaker series that will be held monthly, when the expert will be on hand to answer questions about dating in Santa Barbara and to connect singles during polo matches.

Purchase a ticket (from $22, lockandkeyevents.com ) for your own shot at local love.

I recently attended a Lock and Key event at Blue Martini in Brickell. And yes, the females wear lock necklaces while the men wear keys. As the night unfolded, I began to realize this concept is quite genius!

After watching the crowd (who were all so friendly), they were so much more receptive to one another than the usual club gathering. In a conventional lounge atmosphere, approaching someone may be difficult, but not here. With these necklaces, someone now has a legitimate reason to approach someone else. We’ve got something to unlock!

The prize? That would be a raffle ticket that may lead to a plethora of prizes and the chance to get another lock/key. It's a fun game, but trying out someone’s lock/key is just a simple way to break the ice. No awkward hellos here so the conversation can just flow (and love can begin!).

Not a believer? Yeah, I was skeptical too until I experienced it myself. Did I also mention the numerous, successful relationships and weddings that all began from a single Lock and Key event. One happy couple even invited the owner of Lock and Key, Darren, to their wedding in Italy. After all, it was his event that began the start of their new life.

Whether you’re looking for love or just a good time with some great people, try a Lock and Key Event. It’s better than sitting behind the computer to find your match. And who knows? You may just meet the true love of your life.

*If you would like to participate or volunteer at a Lock and Key Event, you can email the promotional director at *****@****.*** 

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(Credit: Courtesy of Red Ox Tavern)

Lock and Key singles party Don’t tell Cassie Reich that you can’t find true love in a bar. Reich, event coordinator for the Detroit area Lock and Key events, will try to prove you wrong. “With Lock and Key events, you can talk in person, read body language and can immediately tell if there is chemistry or not without having to email or chat back and forth a bunch of times,” Reich says. “The Lock and Key format provides a great ice breaker for people to talk to each other. Sometimes people don’t want to approach someone they are interested in at a club, but at Lock and Key, that’s the whole point so there is no awkwardness.”

“People have online profiles so they can meet many people in one spot,” Reich says. “Our events can have up to 100 attendees, so there are many opportunities to meet someone.”

Women will receive padlocks when they arrive at Red Ox and men will get keys. Attendees will attempt to match the locks and keys. For every match you make, you will be entered to win a raffle prize which include cash, manicures, candles, comedy passes and complimentary admission to future Lock and Key events. There is no limit on the amount of time you can talk with someone, and you can choose to get a new lock or key after you’ve made a match.

“I know of several people who have asked another attendee out on a date who they met at one of my events,” Reich says. “Some attendees have married someone they met at a Lock and Key event in other regions, but not Detroit yet. We hope that in the future this can happen in Detroit too.”

Check in will be from 7 to 7:30 p.m. Guests will mingle until 9:15. The event will include free appetizers until 10 p.m. For more information, visit www.lockandkeyevents.com.

7:30-9:30 p.m. Friday, Red Ox Tavern, 45411 Park Ave., Utica, 586.726.7070. $25 with RSVP; $30 at the door.

The Single File

Timing is everything. Until they met by chance at a birthday party in an Orlando bar, Aaron Bean and Katie Merrigan counted themselves among the thousands of singles in Orlando. “We’ve talked about it. If we hadn’t met just then, it wouldn’t have worked out,” says Aaron.

by Michael McLeod
hair and makeup by Elsie Knab
photographs by Ken Lopez

It’s a wonder anybody stays single anymore. The Internet bristles with an arsenal of dating apps and surefire matchmaking algorithms. Magazines and websites produce periodic “Best Cities for Singles” stories that judge communities mainly on how easily their unattached residents can become attached.

Orlando usually winds up in the middle tier of such lists, as it did in a recent Forbes.com story measuring life in general and love in particular for solo souls in 40 American cities. The rankings were based on job availability, cost of living, nightlife, “coolness,” culture, online dating activity and the number of singles in the area.

The good news is, we’re cool. Cooler than Miami, cooler than Chicago, cooler than Los Angeles. So says a Harris public opinion poll that Forbes.com cited in awarding us sixth place in that category. We dropped the ball elsewhere, however, and wound up sneaking into the roster at a modest 27th overall.

But these stories are generally cobbled together out of statistics and polls compiled and analyzed by journalists who never set foot in the towns they’re writing about. So we consulted with some dating experts and single people who are here in Orlando for a few firsthand observations and options from the front.

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The latest face-to-face dating service fad to turn up in Orlando: Lock and Key Events (lockandkeyevents.com). Singles pay a cover charge to meet up in a club where each male gets a key and each woman gets a lock to wear around her neck. Some of the keys open some of the locks. The ostensible object of the game is to match them up, but it’s all just a clever icebreaker. The latest Orlando club to try it out, appropriately enough, is the Icebar.

more article content and photos at www.ohlmag.com/topics/features/single-file 

If you sponsor with us, your company will be marketed on all our company emails to this region. Your logo and link to your company will be posted on our national website. We all also promote you at the event and any marketing materials will be displayed at the event.  Additionally, your company will be marketed by our venue in their emails about the event and materials will be displayed on their website. 

If you haven't been to a lock and key event, you should really come and check us out! It truly is a single's event like no other. I hope you consider sponsoring with us.  A few dollars can go a long way. We accept gifts no matter how big or small.

Thank you for your time. I look forward to hearing from you.

Paula

Houston Lock and Key Host

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