The custom took off a few years ago when a top football player rented Bucharest’s Arch of Triumph for asked his girlfriend to marry him.
There was no kidnapping involved but the scene stuck in the popular imagination as a symbol of marriage.
Friends of the groom will dress like Taliban or whatever kind of theft they want. They may handle a gun toy. And for the ransom, The Groom have to do whatever they ask. Probably a few bottles of whisky or perhaps something more romantic like l a public declaration of love from the abandoned groom.