The story is based on the life of the author's grandmother, who was forced to give up her daughter, Pramoedya's mother, after a proxy marriage.

One month after the proxy marriage, Sergeant Ferschke was killed in action.

He said: The proxy marriage will take place almost immediately; and after that there will be little delay in your departure.

In the early days of the Mormon church, these relationships were commonly called proxy marriages.

I had a proxy marriage on the telephone.

Ever since the proxy marriage it had been so.

It was common for European kings and nobles to be wed by proxy marriage.

Unless she should do the unprecedented thing of renouncing the proxy marriage.

He didn't suggest I renounce the proxy marriage when the time was up, or anything.

Mexico and Paraguay both offer proxy marriages for a fee.