Bride-ru Reviews

Editor's Star Ratings:

Membership Costs:

• Basic membership: FREE
• Silver Membership:
  • 1 month: $19.95
  • 3 months: $47.95 ($15.98 per month)
  • 6 month: $84.95 ($14.15 per month)
  • 12 months: $145.95 ($12.16 per month)
• Gold Membership:
  • 1 month: $99.95*
  • 3 months: $179.95* ($59.99 per month)
  • 6 months: $249.95* ($41.65 per month)
  • 12 months: $399.95* ($33.30 per month)
    *All prices include $50 setup fee.

Features:

• One of the largest mail order bride sites we've come across with over 56,000 profiles listed
• Browse all the profiles and look at all the pictures of all the women for free before even signing up!
• Women are categorized into 3 different galleries: Gold; Silver and Free. This seems to be done according to looks, education and age, but mainly looks. The most beautiful women are added to the gold gallery; attractive but not necessarily gorgeous women are added to the silver gallery; and older, less attractive ladies are added to the free gallery! No offence meant to anyone reading this who's profile is in the free gallery - we didn't put you in there!
• Contact the women in the Bride.ru's "free gallery" for free without even having to sign-up! No other dating site we've come across lets you contact women for free! Read more on this below.
• Send flowers and gifts to the women of your choice
• Live support available

Joining:

• You may perform a search and view UNLIMITED pages of profiles before joining and you may also view profiles in their entirety, including all the pictures that each and every woman has posted of herself. You may also request the contact e-mail address of any woman in the free gallery before even signing-up! No other site gives you contact addresses for free, let alone without even having to sign-up! In order to contact the more attractive women in the silver and gold galleries you must upgrade to paid membership. Paid memberships are as follows...
  • Silver membership allows you access to the postal addresses, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses of all the women in the silver and free galleries only.
  • Gold membership allows you access to the postal addresses, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses of all the women in ALL the galleries, including the gold gallery, which contains the most beautiful women on the site.

Performing a Search:

The search facility available on Bride.ru is extremely basic. You may perform a search according to the following criteria:

• Profiles added in the last X number of days. Where X can be anything from 1 to 360 days. You can also simply leave this field to read "ANY" which will search all profiles, including those added over a year ago.
• Free, silver, or gold galleries, or any combinations of these three. Your search will then be confined to the gallery you choose.
• Height range
• Weight range
• Age range
• Country

Editor's Verdict:

Bride.ru is another popular mail order bride site that receives a lot of traffic. It's jam packed with women and has one of the largest databases of women on any mail order bride site we've come across - so if you've failed to find success with any of the beautiful women on any of the other sites listed in this category, why not try your luck with Bride.ru. Unfortunately Bride.ru offers very little in the way of advanced features and has an extremely primitive search engine.

Although Bride.ru boasts an impressive number of female profiles, it's clear that the emphasis with this site has really been placed on quantity and not quality. Whereas most other mail order bride sites only admit a small percentage of their most beautiful, stable and intelligent women, it seems that Bride.ru have no vetting procedure whatsoever and just let everyone in! This accounts for their enormous database, and it also accounts for the many complaints that we've read elsewhere on the web of many women from Bride.ru trying to scam Western men into giving them money with sob stories about their family being sick and poor, etc.

The website is divided into 3 galleries: gold; silver and free. The gold gallery contains the youngest and most beautiful women, the silver gallery also contains beautiful women, but less so than in the gold gallery, and the remainder are to be found in the free gallery. A major plus point of Bride.ru which is not to be found anywhere else is that you may request the email address of anyone in the free gallery, without having to pay a penny, and without even having to sign-up or create a profile! Simply enter your e-mail address on the appropriate form and the e-mail address of the woman you selected will be sent to you! Now you can't beat that! Except that you shouldn't hold your breath for a response from these women. The women in the free gallery get so many e-mails from non-members who are just trying their luck with them that the response rate is very low indeed. Also, having browsed the women in the free gallery and the women in the gold and silver galleries, we're not really sure that anyone would settle for a woman in the free gallery when there are such beautiful women available in the gold and silver galleries! But the choice is yours. From our point of view, it would be well worth paying a few extra bucks to get the e-mail addresses of women in the gold gallery rather than the free gallery, especially when you're playing for nothing short of your future happiness! But then we looked at the prices of gold membership (which you'll need to purchase in order to contact anyone in the gold gallery) and all we can say is this: holy cow, batman! The prices for gold membership start off at nearly $100 for one month's membership!! This includes a $50 set-up fee! What does that entail, I ask you? Isn't the set-up of your profile done automatically by the system after you input all your details? There is no set-up fee for silver membership! We can only conclude that this is just an attempt to fleece you for all you're worth! Having reviewed many other mail order bride sites, we can tell you that gold membership to Bride.ru is definitely not worth the prices they charge, despite having the largest database of Russian women on the planet (most of these are in the free gallery and you can access them for free anyway). This is especially true when you consider how many of the advanced features that you would normally expect to find in a mail order bride service that are noticeably absent from Bride.ru. These include:

• Translation services - either by telephone and/or e-mail
• Romantic tours organized for you to help you meet the lady or ladies of your choice
• Chat rooms
• Instant messenger
• Visa and immigration support for when you do find that special someone

All of these and more are NOT included with your membership to Bride.ru.

The search facility on Bride.ru is also sadly lacking, enabling you to search such fields as age, height, weight, country, when the profile was added, and nothing more. Many other mail order bride services also allow you to search by keywords, education level, number of children, marital status and most usefully, proficiency in English. Some even allow reverse age searches, which will display only women who are looking for men of your age, which can also be greatly beneficial in whittling down the number of female profiles that are returned as a result of your search. Sadly, all of these search parameters are missing in Bride.ru.

In summary, if it's quantity of women you're looking for, then you really can't beat Bride.ru. But if it's quality of women you're looking for, an advanced set of features and a search engine capable of finding your ideal match, then forget it! Bride.ru falls way below par on all these extra features.

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