Article: Extreme marriage: So practical, yet so romantic - in theory.(ENTERTAINMENT)

1/3 "Crazy" is the nicest thing people around the world are calling Dave Weinlick, perpetrator of the year's most daring wedding stunt - electing a bride via democratic process, complete with campaign manager, voting on final candidates and heaps of publicity. Regardless of Weinlick's future, his idea got me thinking about the appeal of the arranged marriage.

In the purest sense, the concept is at once the ultimate in practicality, and the ultimate in romance (a blend of Webster definitions nos. 2 and 5: "excitement, love and adventure of the kind found in . . . fictitious tales of wonderful and extraordinary events, characterized by a nonrealistic and ...

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