Whether you choose to spend your life with someone you already know and are in love with, or agree to meet someone suitable your friends or family find for you – you’ll find being married to another person is one helluva lifelong journey! But the debate on how one chooses the partner to get married to, namely via love marriage or arranged marriage, is an age-old and never-ending one, and so we asked a few couples what really happens. This is what they had to say about love marriage vs arranged marriage!
1. Love Marriage vs Arranged Marriage: Before The Couple Gets Married
Love Marriage: “We had dated for a while, and knew each other inside out. I knew his fears, and his dreams – even his past relationships, and in spite of all this, I fell in love with him, and chose to spend my life with him. In a love marriage, you accept another person with all their flaws and that is why the journey is so much better.”
2. Love Marriage vs Arranged Marriage: How The Couple Decides To Get Married
Love Marriage: “It’s a decision that only the people who have to live a life together take. No third person is involved, and it makes sense – after all, if we are the ones who’ve got to spend our lives together, only we should choose, right? We had seen each other through good days and bad already, and knew we wouldn’t second-guess our decision.”
3. Love Marriage vs Arranged Marriage: How The Couple Feels On The Big Day
Love Marriage: “I felt like all the time I spent knowing him, fighting to spend a life with him, facing all odds, surviving moments spent apart and then officially taking him as my husband was overwhelmingly emotional. It felt like a closure, like a battle won, like a life lived, and another about to begin. There is no feeling better than this.”
4. Love Marriage vs Arranged Marriage: How The Couple Starts A Life Together
Love Marriage: “As I adjusted to my new life and started living with him, I found there were so many things I was now discovering about my husband, that I never knew about him when he was my boyfriend. We had occasional fights, but our love for each other always pulled us easily through them. The best part, though, was how my husband eased me into his family, and supported all the individual choices I made, even if my in-laws didn’t like them. It’s like I never found myself alone.”
5. Love Marriage vs Arranged Marriage: Child? Career?
Love Marriage: “I had a say, because my husband was all too ready to hear and heed it. He already knew my fears and my ambitions and always pushed me to do better. The best part was he shared responsibility with me throughout.”
6. Love Marriage vs Arranged Marriage: Some More Years Down The Line
Love Marriage: “Yes, we fought occasionally, and sometimes the past creeped in and mistakes made before were mentioned too, but more or less living with the one who you believe is your soulmate is just amazing.”
7. Love Marriage vs Arranged Marriage: Life Partners
In the end, it’s about the two people who make their marriage work. Marriage is a journey – choose your pick on who you want to spend it. It’s gonna be a ride, either way!
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