Everything you need to know before “ordering” a Filipino bride

The Philippines is the #1 mail order bride country in the world, and it’s easy to understand why—women from this country have traditional views and values, they are very respectful and loyal, and they make perfect wives and mothers. They also speak English and love the idea of marrying a foreigner, and this means that meeting a real Filipino mail order brides is easy: just enter basic information, click the button, and join the world of Filipino dating!

Everything you need to know before “ordering” a Filipino bride

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Filipino brides nearly became synonymous with intermarriage and cross-cultural dating. Who do most Westerners marry most frequently? Pinay girls, of course. Who come from a rather Westernized yet still traditional society and assimilate into new cultures easily? Filipina wives. 

All in all, there are legitimate brides from the Philippines, tens of thousands of them marry their foreign boyfriends yearly, and a lot of those marriages really work. But is that everything that a man should know before starting his dating journey? No, not at all. 

There are more useful insights, clues, and details that will help you make the right final decision on whether to look for a Filipina wife and develop the right strategy. 

What you should know before ordering a Filipino bride?

Most Westerners have a real chance of finding a wife or a long-term girlfriend in the Philippines. That’s just a fact proved by statistics. But what should a single guy be aware of before he starts his dating journey in this country? Here are the key takeaways to focus on: 

  1. In reality, you don’t literally order a bride at a certain cost. That’s just an old myth. The Philippines is the top country for dating not because there are girls for sale but because there are a lot of women attracted to foreigners and ready to marry them. 
  2. You can find a “trad wife” but not a submissive wife there. Meeting a traditional wife is possible because you can find a girl who’d put family first easily. But you’ll hardly find a girl who’d obey a husband no matter what. 
  3. You’re going to actually date a Filipino mail-order bride if you want to marry her. Your future Filipina wife will be able to apply for a visa to enter your country (yes, that goes for the US, UK, Canada, and most other countries), get married, and stay only if you can prove you’ve met offline, had a genuine relationship, and don’t date each other with a single purpose of migration. 

So, these were some insights into the system. Some people think that a man can just find a Filipino mail-bride catalog, place a bid, and get a wife who’d be financially, physically, and emotionally dependent on him. Fortunately, things don’t work like that. A man can access the right dating pool of women interested in serious relationships with foreigners, but he’ll build a real relationship with a girl online first and then in real life. And that makes relationships with modern Filipino brides work and last for decades and decades.

What is a Filipino mail-order bride and what does she do?

Let’s start with a definition of a Filipina wife of a foreign husband.

“A Filipino mail-order bride is a single woman from the Philippines who has once made a conscious choice to search for a future spouse not in her home country but overseas. She doesn’t receive any financial compensation and isn’t motivated by the opportunity to migrate as is. 

Her primary goal is to find a decent partner and start a family in the near future. Intermarriage is usually seen as a great alternative to  years and years of dating different guys until she finds a marriage- and family-minded man.” 

The easiest way to understand what exactly Filipino mail-order brides do is to consider the things they definitely don’t do, namely: 

  1. They aren’t involved in human trafficking
  2. They don’t get financially compensated for their decision to intermarry
  3. They don’t provide sexual favors to foreign men
  4. They don’t have to be fully obedient to their husband

What they do is build harmonious relationships with their foreign matches, enjoy having deep emotional connections with decent partners, take their relationships to a new level, and then just become wives and mothers. The only difference between them and local girls in your home country is that they usually go through a tougher assimilation period and are likely to need your support. 

Why do Filipino women become mail-order brides? 

That’s an interesting question, actually, and the good news is that thousands and thousands of Filipino brides have already answered it. Of course, the reasons may vary greatly, but in the vast majority of cases, Pinay wives mentioned the following: 

  1. The desire for more modernity in their relationships with a partner. 
  2. Attraction to foreign men (Westerners are often called handsome, tall, and exotic). 
  3. Their own curiosity, adventurousness, spontaneity, and open-mindedness. 
  4. Desire to settle down and meet a marriage-minded man. 
  5. Desire to escape a rather common scenario where a local man finds a mistress. 

As you can see, there are multiple reasons for choosing the MOB path, and none has anything to do with money or a Green Card.

What’s it like to be married to a Filipino bride?

Of course, there’s no single scenario of family life with a Filipino wife. 

Still, we asked multiple men about what life was like after they finally started a family with their Pinay girlfriend. Here were the most common points: 

  1. Filipino women mostly express their love through care—delicious meals, interest in their partner’s business whatever it is, desire to keep you safe, etc. 
  2. They are rather hard-working and motivated to assimilate, so it won’t be one of those forever-migrant situations. 
  3. Filipino wives’ commitment to family, both husband and children comes before any other interest. 
  4. A Filipino woman will never forget her family staying in the Philippines, though. She’ll make every effort to keep that bond strong and help them in every way possible. 
  5. Though they come from a society that’s still traditional to some extent, they aren’t trying to ignore or suppress their sexuality. 

Should you look for a Philippines girl for marriage or consider choosing another country to search for a soulmate? Just ask yourself what you expect from a relationship, compare that to the things that we’ve mentioned above, and then make a final choice.

Jeanine Tegano Collins
A wedding expert and the founder of The Bride Scoop. I'm passionate about helping potential brides and grooms navigate the world of international weddings and cross-cultural relationships. With years of experience in the industry, I've become a trusted authority on all things wedding-related, from planning and budgeting to cultural traditions and etiquette.
Through The Bride Scoop, I provide practical advice, expert insights, and personalized guidance to couples from all over the world. My blog features a wide range of topics, including wedding planning tips, real wedding stories, cultural traditions, and advice for long-distance relationships.
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