*groans while sliding hand down face* I think this truly shows that we have entered the digital age.

I guess this truly shows we are in the digital age.

"I guess this truly shows we are in the digital age."

I'm not sure. You look back at the folk stories of the 1700s, when arranged marriage was fading in Europe and you see a lot of stories that play with a similar theme - young people faking marriages so they can be the one they really want to be with, whom the parents don't approve of. Even as early as Shakespeare there are riffs on young love that don't end as tragically as Romeo and Juliet.

The main thing that is new is the way the messages are communicated, but otherwise, the need to create an illusion of marriage, I think that is a very old theme.

Hmm. . . Not good. At all. I have no idea where MS is (Mexico?) and the illustration for cultural contrast is interesting. But this sounds like a comedy, however it can hardly end well. I understand playing the bride looks really fun (actually, I live next to so many jewellery shops that I used to play the fiance looking for a ring from time to time, when I don't feel like book shopping; now too many friends work there)---but take a glance at the bottom line:
- how would the fake bride look at the gifts she kept a year after?
- how would the fake groom explain his actual wedding to his (I guess) very catholic (or whatever religion frowns upon divorce) mother? He can always lie and say the first one died, but how gross should he go? And if she is not as beautiful, nice and charming as the previous one?
- what would the family think when the whole ploy unfolds?
- what if a cousin back home is cute enought to catch the fake bride's eye?
- what if the mother insist on being there for they ‘actual’ wedding and plans a complementary ceremony, without warning her son, at that this ceremony hapens to be legally bounding?

Sorry for being the no-fun guy---but romance is our business around here, and you don't mess up with business.

The sad thing is that I know that a friend of my girlfriend is the exact same circumstances... :/

Nice. Joel Schumacher will be pitching this idea to some Hollywood bigwig tomorrow.

B:

"MS" is for Master's of Science- he came here *for* his MS, not *from* MS. Besides, you wouldn't need a Visa for Mexico.

I do wonder where he's from- he is concerned about the applicant fake bride's ethnicity, but he doesn't mention his own or what country this five star resort will be in. The language usage, an MS in Palo Alto, and the dowry gifts are suggestive... too bad there will probably never be follow-up to this ad.

God bless Craig's List.

Well, he SOUNDS sincere enough, but I would certainly never take him up on his offer. Maybe I'm too paranoid, but I'd be afraid of the sort of possible situation he's setting up if he's luring or some other negative thing.

Seems like a variation of the plot of "The Wedding Banquet"...

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Interesting. I know 2 men who are after the same, it is in my mind a dangerous thing to get involved with for a woman, as even a 'fake' marriage requires to lead a 'fake' life indefinitely as it won't be all done with 2 weeks' pretending. The likelihood is that the person advertising this lives other lies as well, sad for him, and difficult to be involved with such a person, even if on the face of it is is just a 'cold' arrangment. But this is playing with people's lives, hearts, feelings.