Speed Dating Coming to Suwanee

The Moondance Lounge in Suwanee already has provided a new entertainment twist to the local scene: concerts, dance classes and live DJs, for samplers.

Now the next twist: speed dating.

On Feb. 22, an event called 8 Minute Dating will take place at the site on Peachtree Industrial Boulevard. The website says it will offer "a room full of singles, your age, who are just dying to meet someone as attractive and appealing as you!  You’ll have pre-mingling, then 8 Great Dates, and then everyone is invited to stay, mingle, free eat, giveaways and cash bar."

Price: $34.88. Time: 7:08 p.m. Some 40-80 people are expected, according to the website.

The response will be interesting. Suwanee (population: 15,300) is known as an upscale, family-oriented city that caters very much to adults and school-age children. Organized events catering to singles are rare.

8minutedating, the organizing company, has hosted over 10,000 singles parties, according to the Moondance Lounge website.