Blind Marriage on Radio 21

Radio 21 is a local radio station. Nothing special here. Not until they invented the “Blind Wedding” (Nunta pe NeVe). So they choose a the perfect bride, then 5 potential grooms and the bride to be decides who to ask to marry her. Isn’t everything wrong in this picture?

Maybe I am outdated or limited or not open minded enough, but I don’t see how two people getting to know each other during live radio shows (where they’d naturally showoff, tell a lie or two, impress the audience etc) stand a chance. According to Radio 21 they will see each other for the first time at the City Hall. If they say yes, they get a lot of goodies. If they say no, they still get a party.

Now my question is the following: what if they say yes and in about a month realize the other one’s personality is nothing but a big fat lie? Will Radio 21 be by their side when they handle the disappointment and the messy divorce? I say marrying someone you don’t actually know is crazy. And coming from Romanians, of which a lot are against arranged marriages and brides met during the wedding ceremonies, it’s also a picture of our falseness.

Take any of these women and ask them if they’d marry a guy without knowing him. Most of them would say no. Give them a big fat wedding, some more prizes, make them “stars” and give them the impression they are queens men want to please and they go for it. Hundreds of them! I am not sure if this is an upgrade or downgrade from having “trophy wife” as a goal in life.

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  • Ryan

    Of course after a month they realize they’re not
    gonna make it, and also one of them is willing to try, the other one
    starts screwing around and you’ll see them on “Tradati din dragoste”,
    but then he/she realizes what a grave mistake it was, and so the next
    month they’ll be appearing on “In dragoste”, so they make up and
    everything looks bright and shiny so they go celebrate by buying some
    tickets to “Stupize, Stupize”, where to their surprize the Tooth Fairy
    will reunite them with their parents whom they had no ideea were still
    alive as they were abandoned at birth, also discovering that they’re
    actually brother and sister. At this sick moment everyone realizes how
    horribly wrong this shows are and they are banned world wide (thank God
    they did not have children, although rumors of a miscarriage started
    floating around the net and in tabloids). The two write a book (each),
    dismissing the miscarriage event simply because(!), which get turned
    into trilogy movies (each) by the same producers of the aforementioned
    shows. Everyone involved gets richer with 6 figures and the average IQ
    of the country slowly descends another 4 or 5 points. So now, because
    of their newly found dumbness, everyone remebers the _funny_ story of
    the two that met on a dating game and found out they were borthers. At
    this certain point the entertainment industry seizes the opportunity of
    bringing back an old show that once aired, called “The dating game” (or
    something similar).
    So here you go, the wheels of media and capitalism turned by crank. And
    also the reason I stay off blogs and public view lately. :P (My
    apologies for the grammar,spelling&vocabulary mistakes).

  • Alina Popescu

    OMG, given that you wrote this complicated story
    here, I have to ask: are you sure you do not want to become a producer
    for such shows :D

  • Ryan

    Umm… No. If it were up to me, those kind of
    people would all be shot, stabbed and boiled. They take advantage of
    the power media has to fill up their bank accounts. It’s not even
    reality show what they’re doing (I consider reality shows to be
    something among the lines of “American Hotrod”, where they actually
    just move in filming equipment and start shooting, not creating spoiled
    situations taking advantages of human weaknesses). They wash they hand
    of the whole thing by claiming “it’s what the public wants to see” and
    couldn’t care less about the consequences of their actions.
    My long story short is that in an ideal world these media companies
    would all stop airing this nonsense and educate their audience. Sure,
    not everybody will like it at first, but people are addicted to TV and
    if they can’t find anything “better” to watch, they’ll eventually turn
    to more elevated shows. Unfortunately, we’re not living in such a
    world, but one (and before I say this take note that I’m not the shy
    kind by any means) of Kiss FM and Radio Guerrilla, for example, with
    their adult club ads and sexual innuendo jingles airing from an early
    morning to late night, when _everyone_ can tune in.

  • Alina Popescu

    You are right, each of the radios you’ve mentioned
    have their flaws. I for one am especially harsh on Guerrilla, because
    they state they target a more elevated audience. And again, TV stations
    are even worse. Educating the public should be one of the main
    directions the media is focusing on. It isn’t however, and yes, that is
    what the public wants when there is one choice only. How would they
    know of something else?
    I hope that ideal world of yours happens at a certain point. :)

  • Radu C

    Well, they ask for it. They’re grownups, thus
    they’re responsable for their actions.
    Erm… if the producers take bribe, erm… marry me? :D In the end,
    according to the rules, we’re fine, as we don’t really know each other
    (third attempt to meet you, lucky? :) ). 2 weeks vacation, spending
    money, 1yr rent… This sounds tempting :D
    The only problem is that bribe…

  • Alina Popescu

    Well, Radu, I don’t think it’s that hard to find someone to bribe. I recommend the bride to be :D

    And yes, one year’s rent can be very tempting :)

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