In a Malayali wedding the sequence of events is unusually structured — every major step, from the first horoscope exchange to the final send-off, has a specific ritual name and a specific astrological

In a Tamil wedding, no element is more anxiously watched than the muhurtham — the exact minute at which the priest ties the thali. Guests glance at their watches, elders count backwards to confirm the

Before the wedding cards are printed, before the muhurta is booked, before the mangalsutra is threaded, there is one older ceremony that most Karnataka Hindu families still observe: the bride’s side f

Poush is the ninth month of the Bengali calendar and, in Bengali marriage tradition, one of the two months when weddings are almost universally avoided. If your family is planning a Bengali wedding an

Every year, tens of thousands of NRI brides and grooms fly back to India for a wedding — and every one of those weddings starts with a kundali check that has to reconcile a US, UK, Canada, Australia,

Christian horoscope matching Kerala — jathakam porutham as practised by Malayali Christian families — sits at an unusual intersection of ancient Christian heritage and older Kerala cultural inheritanc

Sikh Ramgarhia matching is the pre-wedding compatibility process used by Ramgarhia Sikh families in Punjab, in the UK, in East Africa, in Canada, and across the wider diaspora. Ramgarhia is a sub-comm