mate with 69 percent of the introductions being made through parents, but the study found an increase in finding a partner through personal contact. Tradition also plays a role in that most of those surveyed, 61 percent, married relatives. Another interesting fact about the surveyed sample is that 99.8 percent of the women married Saudi men and 98.3 percent of the men married Saudi women, so there is no huge number of Saudis marrying foreigners as is often claimed. The most desired quality in the mate remains being religious or conservative for both men and women followed by family name, and for men beauty came third followed by education, financial situation and job level, but for women job level, education and financial situation followed respectively. The biggest expense in marriage is the dowry, but the survey found the increase from previous decades to be reasonable given the economic boom the Saudi society had and that the amount has been relatively constant for the past two decades; it is the extreme increase in wedding expenses and home furnishing that cause some men to borrow. The survey results indicate that 14 percent of the men had more than one wife, and eight percent of the women was not consulted at all in deciding on the groom.