Marriage experts

I know this is a strange place to ask this but I looking around today on the Internet and I noticed a movie where the heroine is trying to trick the man into marriage, a book where the woman is trying to trap a man into marriage, a newspaper story where a woman finally convinced her man to marry her, and a TV story where a new couple were laughing and the groom said he never saw it coming. Is this the still the standard today? Women still have to lure men into matrimony? I'm sure that there are few married people and women on this site with something to add.