Arranged Marriages

Had an interesting conversation with a Hindu colleague today during lunch. I asked him how he got to know his wife ( as I heard his wife is one hot chick). To my surprise, he said that he went thru' an arranged marriage.

To Hindus, they believe that a guy and a gal's family status should match, and that's not all. They believe in some sort of horoscope/astrology and you gotta match this as well. This is determined when a person is born, what are the planets that are aligned. They also believe that one should match what the other is lacking - if one is high on certain attribute, ideally the other person should be low. They believe that opposite attracts and the likes repell. He was born in a some what "inauspicious" hour and he's supposed to find someone who's also born around that hour. It's really tough, and it took his parents 3 years to find the girl. Once they found her, they grabbed her. As his wife was quite pretty, she has about 50+ marriage proposals, and eventually picked him!

So interesting, din know such things still exists. Maybe I should go to an Indian astrologer and have my fortune told, see who can match my horoscope and hunt that person down! (Only for me, I have to do it myself without my parents' help)

A good side of arranged marriage... =)