Here are National Geographic E-Mail Order Bride video and photos. The documentary will air on NGC on Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at 9pm ET.

The program will examine the controversial “E-mail order bride” business which matches American men with women from other countries. The documentary follows events unfolding as two men from the U.S. take an awkward and anxiety ridden trip to Togliatti, Russia in hopes of finding true love. The industrial city is known as “Russia’s Detroit.”

National Geographic E-Mail Order Bride will allow the audience to glimpse the otherwise secrative world and reveal the experience of those who are in the midst of it. Unfolding events, from meeting the potential bride to making it to the altar to legalize the union.

Top photo: Togliatti, Russia: 23 year old twins, Veronika and Angelika Soloyova, are both clients of “A Volga Girl” marriage agency, one of hundreds of “international marriage brokers” that promise western men a wife with “traditional values.” The twins are students at a local university who are pursuing careers in the film industry. Despite numerous contacts from male clients within the marriage agency, they have yet to find a suitable client to peak their interests. (photo credit: Anna Rodzinski)

Photo: Togliatti, Russia: James Richards and Uliana Bogdashkina enjoy dinner on New Year’s Eve. A client of the marriage agency, “A Volga Girl,” for over four years, Uliana works at a gas station near Togliatti’s car factory and lives with her mother. Richards enlisted the help of the same marriage agency to find a Russian wife, although he did not propose to Uliana during his first trip to Russia. (photo credit: Anna Rodzinski)

Video “E-Mail Bride Delivered” – Gary brings home his Russian Fiancée, Olga, for the first time – and for this couple it looks like a win-win situation. Link: National Geographic E-Mail Order Bride Video

Video “Mail Order Murder” – It took the death of an innocent woman before federal laws were enacted to regulate international marriage brokers. Video Link

Photos and video courtesy of National Geographic

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National Geographic E-Mail Order Bride (Video, Photos)