6 The Courier sun • march 19, 2015 for breaking news visit www.couriersun.com Ridgewood woman gets ‘Married at First Sight’ BY KATRINA MEDOF as outgoing or kind of more reserved, so I was afraid to kmedoff@queenscourier.com/@KatrinaMedoff see how the families would mingle.” Castro said that her parents’ support was extremely One Ridgewood woman said “I do” to her perfect important as she prepared to walk down the aisle. match, but she hadn’t laid eyes on him until moments When she signed up for the chance to be matched for before her vows — all for the A&E reality show the first season, her best friends told her, “You have “Married at First Sight.” nothing to lose and everything to gain,” she said, but Jessica Castro, 30, was having trouble finding the her mom “was not thrilled.” committed relationship she was looking for after her “When I found out the first time around I wasn’t fiancé, who she had been dating for seven years, matched, it was a little bit of a relief for all of us because, cheated on her. you know, it’s terrifying,” she said. “But my mom actually “Dating really is tiring. You go on a first date, and got to see season one, we all watched season one, you go on another first date with a different guy,” she and we realized how much the experts and the couples said. “No one really wants to settle down or they think put their all into this. When I came around and I told that there’s someone better out there.” them I was doing season two this time around, my mom Castro and her match, who will be revealed in the cried and she said, ‘I know this is what you want.’” upcoming season of the reality show, were one of three “My mom is my best friend, my right-hand woman, couples to be paired by four matchmakers: psychologist and if she didn’t approve it would be devastating,” Joseph Cilona, sexologist Logan Levkoff, sociologist Castro said. Pepper Schwartz and spiritual adviser Greg Epstein. Photo courtesy of A&E Married First Sight She didn’t tell her dad she was applying, though. “We Two of the three couples from the first season are Jessica Castro walks down the aisle to marry a stranger kind of kept him in the dark at first, we told him it was still happily married, while the third decided to get a for the reality show “Married at First Sight.” a dating show, just so he wouldn’t freak out, because divorce at the end of the six-week experiment. we didn’t want to give him all of the information and This was the second time that Castro had applied to neighborhoods in Brooklyn.” Then the experts each then say I’m not matched. So we figured we’d wait until be on the show. Although she had made it through the interviewed her for 20 to 30 minutes. I got a definite answer, and when I told him his eyes got entire process for season one, including interviews with When Castro heard that she was matched for season watery and he said, ‘If this is what makes you happy, I the show’s experts, they were unable to find a suitable two, “I was honestly in shock,” she said. “Dr. Pepper support you.’” match for her. Schwartz called and said, ‘We have some wonderful She loved working with all of the experts, but psychologist “When I heard of season two, I figured, why not give news for you: we found your match,’ and I think my Cilona helped her with communication, it another shot?” she said. “I had a gut feeling that this reaction was, ‘What?’ … She was like, ‘Yeah, you’re which she calls her “biggest downfall.” would be it for me, that they would find me my match.” getting married next week!’” “Cilona gave us some exercises, and when we met So Castro, a receptionist at a Manhattan law firm, “Everything was within days and it was a very intense with him it was an eye-opener for both of us, like, we applied again. “I plugged in all my information into the preparation, but it was so worth it,” she continued. “It both want this and we really just have to put our best website, and they reached out to me,” she said. 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