Who is more Deperate For Marriage; Men or Women? Check Pictures

I came across this picture on Facebook and decided to share. I have heard stories of a friend of a friend who did the same thing. The lady's fiance, whom she had never met prior to the marriage by the way, was based abroad and couldn't come home so they had to do everything by proxy.
The family liked her for a wife, and so she could move into the in-laws place and help the mother-in-law until the son could come back for the civil marriage. I didn't understand it fully, but everybody seemed happy with the arrangement. And I think last I heard, everything worked out.
Will you hold your wedding in absentia of your would-be spouse? Under what conditions?