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"Web Order Bride" Likes Jamestown and her Marriage

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Irene came to North Dakota to marry her husband after meeting him on the internet.  But it's not quite like the old days when the Norwegian woman would come to the prairie on the basis of some letters exchanged with a farmer.  Irene's suitor flew to the Philippines to meet her and her family before they agree to get married.  And she like it here -- winters and all.

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