The only difference is that that richness was expressed in other forms rather than a national currency like the Shilling. However, LOVE has never and shouldn't be the main goal of marriage. Again, if we look at this in purely business terms, love is the equivalent of pre-tendering. It helps you to shorten the list of people you are considering. If you love someone, then that person qualifies to be considered for marriage.
Men work the same way.
Women work the same way. Good looks would be factored in. Then a sensible man would, naturally, be interested in whether his chosen one is intelligent and can bear smart children. He will check out her family, to see whether her mother, sisters, cousins are smart and bear themselves well just in case the children inherit their traits. And some fastidious men check own even the grandmother to see if she aged gracefully, with the good humour and that elegant beauty of the elderly.