Marriages are made in heaven but many Indian marriages are still “arranged” even today, Although this trend is going through a dramatic change in recent days. They say marriages are not simply a marriage between a man and a woman but its a marriage between two families coming together. So not only the bride and groom play an important role in Indian marriages, Instead the parents and relatives of both family also play an important role in Indian marriages. But with recent western influence over over the eastern culture the old trend of parents selecting the suitable partner for their children gradually disappearing. The new age youths have nowadays started to select their own mates and get married to them.
But still many in India still rely on their parents wisdom, foresight and association to find the right person for them. Besides contacts from family, friends and neighbors, there are many match making services available both online and offline all over India in all the major cities and towns nowadays, these organisations provide an opportunity for both the members of the family to sit together and discuss their needs.
Still many indians seek for a suitable mate within their religion, community and caste mostly arranged marriages of this kind, parents tend to lookout for a suitable mate for their children within their community, most dont go for finding a suitable mate outside their religion and caste.
Once they decided with a suitable mate for their child, Usually both the family sit together before a pundit who will choose a auspicious day for them for the betrothal and marriage. Besides these two Indian marriages has lots of interesting events in between this. usually Indian marriages will go for a period of 1 week during this period members of both family have lots of rituals for their bride and groom and also some get together party with many varieties of food. One of the best part of Indian weddings is food. They have hundreds of varieties of delicious sweets and spicy food recipes. For any Indian marriage is an one of the most important event in his/her life time.