Polygamy for Free

Here's a funny one.  In yesterday's NST there was this news about mass weddings at Bandar Country Homes, Rawang.  Twenty couples tied the knot in an event jointly organized and sponsored by the Foundation of Welfare and Medical Services of Malaysia and Rufaqa Corporation Sdn Bhd. Well, nothing special about that because somewhere else before in South Korea bigger mass weddings were held.  According to one Laila Ahmad, the foundation's public relations officer, “this programme was created to help those who could not afford the wedding cost (emphasis is mine).”  

There were eight polygamous marriages while the rest were monogamous. Imagine, eight men could afford to take second wives but could not afford the wedding costs?  Whatever happened to the pre-requisites of polygamy?. If I'm not mistaken, one of them is that the groom MUST be financially sound.  Or, have I been ill-informed? Somebody please enlighten me.  Not that I'm against polygamy, it’s just that I'm a little confused.