Marriages can be of two kinds- love marriages and
arranged marriages. The number of love marriages in India is relatively less
than the number of arranged marriages that take place every year throughout the
country. The rise of the matrimonial
bureaus around the length and breadth of the country has helped in
quickening the pace of fixing marriages and selecting the correct life partner
for the individuals.
In earlier times, the priest of every family used to
perform the religious rituals for the family and also find suitable life
partners for the girl or boy in the family after they reached a certain age.
They searched for prospective life partners within the members of their
community. As they were the priests, they had greater knowledge of the people
in their community. They helped in the communication process between the two
families and initiated the talk of the marriage. They were responsible for
fixing meetings between the two households and also in the meeting of the girl
or the boy with their prospective in-laws. After the marriage was settled, the
priests also did the wedding rituals.
With changing times, the priests lost their
popularity and individuals turned to matrimonial
bureaus for the selection of their prospective son-in-laws or
daughter-in-laws. These bureaus have a wide range of the profiles of
individuals from all castes and sections of the society. This is helpful in
selection of the brides and the bridegrooms. The bureaus maintain a wide
database of the profiles of individuals. The individuals have to pay a fixed
sum for the maintenance of their profiles in the matrimonial website of the
bureau. After the creation of the profile, a picture of the person is added and
this completes the procedure. The profile of a person contains his name,
educational background, height, skin color, caste, economic status and a brief
family history. This helps in easier selection for marriage purposes. The
marriage bureaus have now developed websites of their own for this purpose.
They upload all the information on their website. People from around the
country and even abroad can go through the site and select their life partner.
They can give their requirement in the search box and the website will come up
with results matching their search. This has eased the process of selection of
boys and girls for marriage. Even the boys and girls can chat on the internet
and get to know each other. Then they can contact their parents and finally fix
the marriage. In this modern time, when saving time and money is an important
factor, matrimonial bureaus are very
helpful in fixing marriages of people.
The bureaus saw a decline in their popularity with
the rise of love marriages some years back. But after some time, there has been
a decline in the number of love marriages. The business of the bureaus has
again increased and this has also helped individuals in fixing their marriage.
Matrimonial
bureaus have therefore gained a good foothold over the
marriage scenario in India.
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