Meet your dream among mail order brides.

So how do you meet an overseas prince? Psychologists think that the best environment is when people just meet - when they study, work, visit an exhibition or simply walk down the street. In this case, the factor of mutual attraction plays a great part, much like when you meet a guy of your own background. Unfortunately, such lucky encounters are very few and far between - you need to work in an appropriate company, to know at least a bit of the foreign language, to be energetic and self-assured. Matchmaking also works well: somebody you know who went to live abroad, or a girlfriend who married a foreigner, find you a suitable candidate. In this case, you have the opportunity to find out more about him.

The shy and indecisive mail order brides choose correspondence, as the newspapers have classified ads with offers from overseas candidates. However, this way of meeting a partner is not very efficient: letters take quite a while to get across, the candidate you have chosen is probably already taken, and so on. It is much more interesting to meet through the Internet. But let us confess: how many Russian or Ukrainian thirty-year-old beauties can use the Internet and have regular access to it? This means of communication is for the computer-savvy students. And a great means, I may say.

A letter:
"I feel that a month of communicating in ICQ would do as well as half a year of dating or a long correspondence. This way, you could not mislead your partner with small talk during live interaction, or with long-prepared letters that you wrote using the classics and someone else's help. In the ICQ you are all here, in full view. You have to answer at once, all by yourself, and you also have to persuade the person who does not know you at all, that you are interesting and great, using only words and a few smileys. I am sure that women could find out much more about their future husbands, learn to understand them better and eventually grow to love them."

Finally, you could go to an international marriage agency. You have to leave them your profile and some requirements for the future partner, and the agency staff picks the candidates whose interests coincide with yours. You could also study the profiles of the candidates that look promising.

Vladislav Ilchenko, the manager of "Russian Wife" marriage agency:
- Usually the communication between people - correspondence, meetings - lasts for two or three months, sometimes even a year. There were cases when people got married within a week (it is typical for Americans). The agency could give a hand in translating the letter and sending it via email. Overseas fiancés often ask to send flowers or souvenirs to their brides.

A couple of words about the "mail order brides fairs" - the kind of derisive name for socials, or collective meetings organized by marriage agencies. In a restaurant, potential fiancés and mail order brides meet for a light meal. Someone tries to get a seat at the table of the lady that he is interested in, another invites for a dance. Unfortunately, many feel restrained in such a setting and these socials gradually become a thing of the past.