Courtship never became a popular arrangement, mostly because of the benefits of sealing deals and business arrangements with the marriage of the participant’s children. Arranged marriages remained the popular way to hitch your children, and those who had neither prospects nor businesses to combine would petition the local governments for assistance, who would then take care of arranging such things. As technology got better and distance got smaller the popularity of government matches grew. Fast forward to the modern day, where the national government’s council is responsible for a large majority of matches, utilizing their website Forever.com.
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