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when I met him first online I found him
to be really sweet I think I was the one
who was talking for an hour
he was just listening when we met I I
saw her she was beautiful
intelligent and kind which was I mean
something that I was I was looking for
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an Xuan Sumeet are one of about 12
million couples that get married in
India every year unlike their parents
generation then not from two close
villages but from two cities on opposite
sides of the country
and their love didn't start through
community matchmaking marriage brokers
or classified ads in newspapers but
began online so we made two Jeevan
saathi dot-com so it's basically an
online portal where we have detailed
profile of different grooms and bright
it makes a lot of remote profiles which
we were located in distant areas more
accessible thanks to growing Internet
and smart phone usage matrimony websites
and apps in India are starting to
disrupt the matchmaking industry more
and more people are finding their
partners at the click of a mouse
Jeevan said e-comm we're unsure and
sumeet met is one of the biggest players
young Indians looking for love set up
profiles including their caste and
horoscope but their criteria for
choosing spouses appears to be changing
we have seen that shift from you know
traditional caste community conservative
parameters to something like which is
more focused on education employment
insurance who meets marriage was
initiated by their parents but modern
Indian couples like them have more
input in previous generations we looked
up to them to agree for the proposal but
it was primarily our decision that we
wanted to be with each other there's a
bear which basically we used for
indicating a hug that's our language
basically I can for him
time flies when you're in love and just
one and a half months after they first
met online a couple got engaged they
decided to hold their wedding less than
three months later but planning a
traditional Hindu wedding on such short
notice is no easy task
the massive event usually lasts three
days has various ceremonies and
celebrations and involves the entire two
families and hundreds of guests luckily
there are websites and apps for the
venue it makes the search faster
inefficient startups like the wedding
brigade are challenging traditional
wedding planners in this fifty billion
dollar industry it provides various
services from booking banquet venues to
buying wedding gowns the website makes
money by charging commission from
vendors people don't want to be limited
to what is available around them they
want to know the entire range of options
available before making a decision and
now is easy to find almost everything on
one portal an Xuan sumeet are officially
married in a ritual that has gone on for
thousands of years but their love
started in a very new way
technologies might be changing the way
couples meet date and get married in
India but they're definitely not
changing everything the technology was
only the first level and that we could
get to find each other everything else
was like very humanely and emotions and
feelings birds
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