The Role of Class in Hypergamy

Is this by choice or social necessity? Or just because he doesn't know any beautiful poor women well enough to ask them out? Research does suggest that husbands and wives' attractiveness correlated about R equals 0.4. But there's no tendency for ugly rich people to marry attractive poor people. Nor do their husbands seem defective in other ways, except maybe that they're also no lookers. The rise of online dating makes it trivial to meet people outside your social class but it seems to produce the same kind of class-matched couples as offline dating did.