If one is a keen reader of newspapers, one already knows about the very strange and exceedingly specific requirements that people have when inviting matrimonial alliances. There are specific requirements in the caste, looks, wealth, height, professional qualification departments. Clearly it wasn’t enough that we had shaadi.com, bharatmatrimony.com, jeevansaathi.com. There appeared to be a need for websites that offer some very precise matches for those requirements.
This is a real website that offers to match up a very specific segment of the country’s population. it claims to have over five years of experience in matchmaking the country's most “highly educated individuals. There are basic and paid premier services available.
A company by the name Alma Mater Matters Pvt. Ltd., helmed by Taksh Gupta (CEO) offers to match people of ‘matching intellect’. They promise to match people not just from the IITs and the IIMs, but all “Indian and Global Institutions irrespective of the field of study,” in fields such as engineering, management, architecture, medicine, finance, law, fashion design, theatre, media communication, psychology, sociology, music, dance, culinary arts, historic preservation, animal psychology.
Users get access to services such as messaging, contact info, profile access, scheduling meetings etc. One can even ‘search by height’. Charges range from USD 199 (or about Rs. 13k) to USD 379 (or Rs. 30k) for a period of six months, one year or ‘until marriage’.
This one is, as the name suggests, one for those trying their hand at love a second time. The service offers matches from one's own community and according to one's preferences.
The site offers a ‘second chance at love.’ 'Never married’, ‘awaiting divorce’ and ‘annulled’ are some other options available. Not only that, the site helpfully offers to fix up the bride/groom with wedding venues, caterers and other such services as well.
Like the divorcee matrimony service, this one also offers to find partners for those who are divorced, widowed or who want to marry late in life.
The service offers a few basic features such as free horoscope generation and then there are paid features that include assisted searches.
This is a service that claims to be made for PLU (people like us). This is not the traditional parents looking for a match for their offspring, but single people looking for meaningful relationships; those who have been, but don’t want to be footloose and fancy-free any more. This is one for people with a bit of history; those who have lived life a bit. It’s for those who decide and choose to get hitched for themselves; not for those who are doing it for the sake of their parents or because of social pressure.
Perhaps most people want someone to share their life with, but it is a case of different strokes for different folks. People seem to have thought of every possible way to help find that special someone.
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