Bay Area woman behind ‘Marry Lisa’ billboard campaign attracts global attention

(KRON) — A Bay Area woman who launched a billboard campaign in an effort to land her “Mr. Right” has received a flood of applicants, with men from as far away as Brazil applying to become her spouse. Lisa Catalano, the local woman behind the “Marry Lisa” billboards that have popped up recently along Highway 101, spoke to KRON4 News last week.

“I just want to meet somebody,” Catalano told KRON4’s Michael Thomas. “And I was just not having any luck any other way.”

Catalano’s billboards, which are running along 101 from Santa Clara and San Francisco, has raised eyebrows, and apparently, interest. According to Catalano, she’s received a huge amount of interest with suitors from across the country, and even overseas in countries like Brazil, filling out her online application for a husband.

While the flood of applications may sound like good news for Catalano, she said the majority of those who have applied are not interested in getting married or having kids, which she calls “something that’s really important to me.”

On her website, marrylisa.com, Catalano has been very specific about the kind of man she’s looking for, someone between their 30s and 50s in age. Unfortunately, she said a lot of the men that are applying are in their 20s, 60s, or 70s, which is another dealbreaker for her.

Catalano shared recent analytics for her website with KRON4. On a single day, she received over 27,000 unique visitors to marrylisa.com and over 127,000 page views. All that interest, she said, has led to about 350 applications from eligible men who meet her criteria.

At last report, she’s still working her way through reviewing their applications.

“I hope that this is a great story that we can tell our future children,” she told KRON4 last week, when asked if she had a potential message for a potential “Mr. Right” out there.