Indian marriage

Till now i have somehow tried to escape the questions many times from my relatives .
I thought friends or people around my age should understand , however they have also started to ask the same question as if the marriage is the only thing apart from education left in the world . Everyone wants to get married some day or the other after they find a right person .

Being an Indian Guy or girl is tough , @ 21 or 22 age people will start asking when are you going to get married and they also start looking for bride or groom . Instead of bride or groom , others members of the family are more interested in their marriage. They decide where to send them for honeymoon, when they should have their own child (whether boy or girl) . I know i am exaggerating a little about child

But there were times that also used to happen, maybe even now in some remote villages .

Marriage also has become more prestige issue in terms of dowries, functions for the marriages and thereafter for reception . Most of the time brides parent end up paying entire expenses of the marriages . I have heard if a guy is a software engineer from one particular part of india he would get minimum of 10 to 15 lakhs (1.5 million) rupees as dowries.

Concept of love marriages is still looked as bad in india amd if some one has done arranged marriage then he/she is the idle son/daughter . Engagements of Girls usually happens before they finish their graduations and they are married once they finish graduation .

Having said all this their are lot of advantages of having arranged marriages also like marriage failure in arranged marriage are less ore so because parent or family members gets involved in patching things between husband and wife , most of the time it works out however depends on the understanding of both husband and wife.

Hope this trend changes in near future .