Going on a cruise or making correspondence work?

If you are a lonely and financially secure American, you have a unique marriage opportunity - the four-day "Marriage Cruise". A California marriage agency organizes these cruises from Moscow to Yalta during the summer months. According to Nataly Scott, president of the marriage agency (and formerly one of the mail order brides), only the "most charming and attractive" mail order brides are chosen from twenty thousand ladies represented by more than a hundred marriage agencies. Amazingly enough, there are a hundred brides for only fifty potential fiancés! A comfortable ship, picturesque landscapes, beautiful women - you cannot help getting married. As the cruise draws to its close, there is a special lecture by an immigration attorney on taking home your brand new wife. If you do not believe, you had better check it out. Participation for the male candidates would cost them anything from $3.895.

Still, if you cannot afford going on a cruise, you should give a close consideration to a correspondence relationship. In our fairly tough life common sense is welcome everywhere, including the choice of a spouse, especially a foreign one. Of course, going to Hawaii for a vacation or riding a new Chevrolet are great. If a guy tells you about it, it is also cool. However, there is a number of questions that he should provide an answer to: age, nationality, profession, location, marriage experience, presence of children and attitude to them, looks, religion, income... Correspondence love is an insidious thing.

"I have met a man from the Netherlands. I really liked his first letters, and then he sent his pictures, and I saw that he was black. I am very interested in his personality - he is very kind and attentive, but my parents and friends do not understand me. My parents say: "You have to change your mind, there is no way this could go on". Of course, I am also having a hard time. I understand that if I decide to stay with him, we would have some problems. But if I forget for a moment that he is black, I like everything about him..."

Concerning intermediary services in the field of international marriages, you also have to be on your guard. As a rule, the majority of mail order brides agencies works legally and gives a good result. But sometimes...

"I had quite an experience with making photos for marriage agencies. As a rule, their requirements are very similar. However, once I had this experience: an eighteen-year-old girl had me take her pictures in order to move to Italy. After a while, she got a reply from the agency: her documents could not be processed because they need her full-length photo wearing a swimsuit. Neither before, nor after did I meet with this kind of demands on the side of marriage agencies. I could not care less, really - I do the job and forget about it if the clients are happy. But I dropped a hint - just in case. As a matter of fact, where this girl ends up, married or in a public house is really her and her relatives' business."