EMMA Yong will be getting hitched next year to her interior designer boyfriend Jerry Lim.

And local director Glen Goei is particularly excited.

That’s because the 48-year-old accidental matchmaker has finally scored his hat-trick.

Yong and her fiance are the third couple who had met through Goei, who have made it to the altar.

It was also through Goei that local actors Adrian Pang and Pam Oei met their spouses.

Pang’s British wife Tracie was Goei’s stage manager in his 1994 stage production The Magic Fundoshi.

Oei’s husband, former The Straits Times journalist Ken Kwek, wrote The Blue Mansion, a local film that Goei directed last year.

When Emma met Jerry (2004)

Mr Lim used to work as a part-time bartender at Goei’s club Happy, which has since closed.

She declined to give any details on her impending nuptials as her fiance is “a shy person” and wants to keep their wedding a private affair.

Said Yong, 34: “I always say that Glen has very good love fengshui.”

But Goei insisted that he had never meant to matchmake anyone.

“I don’t believe in setting people up. And I also don’t believe in looking for love.

“I always tell people never look because it (finding love) happens only when you stop looking.”

So were the three unions all coincidental?

Goei said that he wasn’t surprised that people he worked with ended up together as he has always chosen to work with those “whose energy is in sync with mine”.

He explained: “I work only with people who understand me, my sensibilities and my language. Basically people who get me.

“Thus it’s not surprising that they would get along. All of us (the three couples and him) are very good friends.”

Yong had spent a lot of time having drinks with him at Happy, which he opened in 2004, said Goei.

She caught Mr Lim’s eye when he was bartending there.

The couple went out on their first date in January 2005.

But Goei had no part in Yong’s first marriage.

She wed local actor Gerald Chew in 2002, but they split a year later.

Goei said that Mr Lim is as quiet as Yong is vivacious so they made a good pair as they “balanced” each another out.

“You will notice that the three couples are all made up of one working behind-the-scenes and one on stage.

“So as much as it’s about chemistry and mutual attraction, it’s also about being a right fit.”

Ironically, he closed Happy in 2006 as he had met Kwek (Oei’s husband) then and wanted to embark on making The Blue Mansion.