Someone once asked the Ponovitzer Rav about a certain bochur in his Yeshiva. He responded, “If they’re already engaged, he’s an Eloy (brilliant Talmudic scholar), if they’re dating now, he’s an average guy, and if they haven’t met yet, I don’t know him!”
If they would have asked him about our Chassan, let me tell you what he would have said, at any point….