Peculiar dream I had about being in an arranged marriage.

Can't remember how I found out, but in this dream I was aware that I was supposed to be married soon. I was intensely excited about getting married to my partner! It was actually an arranged marriage, put together by my mother and some relatives and family friends. (Highly unlikely to happen in my real life!)
My mother had chosen my partner for me.
I thought it would be obvious who it was because I have talked to her much about my affection for the boy.
I am looking at my wedding dress in the mirror when my mother/relatives/friends come in to introduce me to my new spouse.
To my horror...it is not the boy I love...but instead, a complete stranger.
I immediately beg for the wedding to be canceled. I do not want this strange man! When my pleas are rejected I flee my home, but people are searching for me...The wedding must go on. My pursuers follow me down many streets and avenues and finally I lose them for a moment. I race to the nearest house and knock frantically. No one answers so I ring the doorbell and pace the front porch while I wait. A lady answers the door and I ask if I may hide there for a few days while I am being searched for. She welcomes me to her quaint little home. I spend many days helping her tend to the small ponies and garden she keeps...meanwhile, the search for me is abated.

After weeks, I decide to return to familiar territory. I bid goodbye and many thanks to the lady, her ponies and the neighborhood children who frolicked in the garden. I travel to a place owned by either family or close friends who were not involved with the arranged marriage plans. (Uncertain).
There is a small get-together happening there. My two best friends are there and I greet them and we talk about what has happened. Later, I chat with two older men, grandfatherly foreigners, whom I know from work.
They ask why my lover is not here. I say I do not know...did they not invite him? They say yes, they did but he has not arrived. They ask if I have his phone number and will call him. I am hesitant, wanting to speak with my lover privately about the chosen spouse and wedding arranged without knowledge of his existence in my life. I ask if the two men would please speak to him instead to call him over.

Shortly, my "foreign grandfathers" alert me to my lover's arrival.
I run to him and he promptly greets me by my nickname (coined by one of the "foreign grandfathers"). He pulls me into an embrace and we stay like that for a long time. I see my family approaching and hold my lover tighter, watching my family warily over his shoulder.

Any interpretations welcome.

Do you feel like something in your life isn't going as you planned, or that other people are making decisions for you?

Sometimes, the person you marry in a dream can represent a quality that you want to take in yourself, so the dream could have to do with other people not allowing you to be who you want to be.

Do you feel that you have had to settle for less than what you hoped for in life?

Also possibly relevant: What do your parents think of your beloved? Could the dream reality be mirroring the waking reality? Have they expressed any disapproval of him?