Shine OnWoman offers $10,000 to friend who can find her a husband
It can be tough to find love in today's rat race where strangers on the subway won't meet your gaze for longer than two seconds for fear that you might have ill intentions. The plight of urban singles is universally felt. Even with the powers of online dating, one can spend hours talking to a potential match, only to meet in person and discover there is no spark.
So one female ad executive in San Francisco has taken the matter (errrr....and her considerable income) into her own hands. She is offering $10,000 to a lucky friend who introduces her to Mr. Right.
In a mass email she wrote to her friends, she announces her intentions to snag a husband through one of them, and is dead serious in her proposition (we think so, anyway). The email was leaked by Agency Spy who kept her identity anonymous. The contents of it are a bizarre combination of awesome, funny and scary all juxtaposed into one neat package.
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I will personally give ten thousand dollars to the friend who introduces me to my husband.
Here is how the referral program works:
Step 1: You set me up on a date with a man
Step 2: I marry that man
Step 3: I give you $10,000 on my wedding dayI know you’re thinking that this is nuts. Just plain crazy. “[Redacted], you can find a husband without dishing out $10,000.” Well for starters, thank you – I’m flattered. And secondly, I totally agree. But the reality is finding a husband always costs money. I just collected 1,000 insider points from Sephora and this isn’t because I buy beauty products to impress my 4-year old nephew.
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Read a full version of the email here.
She mentions Sheryl Sandberg's book Lean In as the inspiration for her idea, and also says that a great percentage of marriages are the result of introductions through friends. All the while, she keeps her self-deprecating humour in tact, making jabs about how she is no Kate Upton.
So there you have it folks, crowdsourcing love is alive and well.
If you ever received an email like this from a friend, how seriously would you take it?
