Arranged marriages are all about finding Mr. Right for you. Most of us speak of only two kinds of marriages; one is love marriage and another is arranged marriage. But in reality, there is a whole spectrum in between but most of us run from one choice to the other. The trend of today is to find your own partner and introduce him to your family. But the other side, arranged marriages are also on the same lines, only the journey is a bit longer.

After all, what’s wrong with a little help from the family and community at large? So here is a high-five to arranged marriages. If it helps you find love, how can it be wrong?

You Are Closer to Your Parents

Times are changing and families are not as closed as they once were, they’re simply closer. Today’s generation find it easier to communicate with their parents. Parents too are more in tune with the needs and expectations of their children, and are constantly on the lookout for them. When it comes to marriage, both parties communicate with each other and find the right match.

Fewer Compatibility Issues

Matches now are based on more pragmatic considerations. Family and friends do all the spadework, so there are fewer adjustment issues. It’s best to meet a person perfect for your situation in life because it places less pressure on the couple to make the marriage work. Arranged marriages helps you find a partner from similar family background holding same kind of values. Therefore the rough edges with your new family members are smoothened out.

No Time to Find a Match for Yourself

Women are now getting married much later. Most of us are pre-occupied with our careers and don’t really get around to looking for love. Enter the parents, who know you through and through. Parents know how to dig around and find the right person for you, asking all the needed questions that you may be too embarrassed to ask.

Web an Easy Source Out

While earlier matchmakers, aunts and priests haven’t been rendered jobless, there are new entrants to the matchmaking field like friends, marriage bureaus and the internet. Different marriage websites allow prospective brides and grooms to put online profiles and even narrow down their search right down to community, job profile, age, background, income bracket and so on. Besides, the sheer convenience and impersonal nature of the internet makes it more palatable as a matchmaking tool.

Matrimonial websites have been around for more than a decade, as compared to friendship and dating sites, which have sprung up in the past few years. Women who would otherwise balk at the idea of letting their decisions be ‘arranged’ are comfortable with networking sites doing the arranging instead of the neighborhood astrologer.

Close to Dating

Earlier in arranged marriages the boy and the girl were asked to take a call on the spot but it isn’t so anymore. You can now date before you make that big decision. Arranged marriage is more like going out on dates set up by your parents and with their consent. At the end of the meetings in most of the time what started as an arranged marriage becomes a love match. We can say the thin line of love and arranged is getting blurred.

Longer Courtships

Unlike earlier, when wedding preparations would be on full swing soon after the wedding was announced, couples now prefer to wait a while before taking the final plunge. You get to know the person after you have chosen them, instead of choosing a person after getting to know them as in a love marriage. It also gives you the time to get used to the idea of being with somebody, a particular somebody.