Pooja & Shiva
I found my dream partner through your great site. We got happily married on August 3rd, 2004 at the Registrar office. Thanks to the shaadi.com team to make my life happy. My husband will continue the story from The netherlands very soon...
Suma & Rijo
Firstly we would like to thank the Shaadi.com team for bringing us both together. We still think about it all, and can't believe that this truely worked for us. Rijo (in Qatar) contacted me (in UK) on 5th December 2003 and we chatted online on the 6th. The chat lasted 5 hours, we both felt something was ticking here, but didn't say anything to each other. From day one, we both told our parents that we were in touch with each other, so we got lots of encouragement from our them too. Our parents spoke to each other in January 2004 and they all got a long very well too. Rijo and I kept in touch for 8 months but never met each other face to face. In August I went to Kerala and Rijo went too and on 9th August 2004 we finally met face to face. Both of us were so familiar with each other, so there was so tension or nervousness at all. We just chatted away, laughed and held hands, much to the amusement of our families. We got married on 19th August 2004, and were blessed by all our family members from India and friends who made huge efforts to come from UK, Canada and Qatar to share our wonderful day. We want to thank mostly God for blessing us so much, and bringing us together in such wonderful circumstances. And ofcourse thank you Shaadi for truely helping us to have a match made in heaven!
Jaydeep & Hetal
I'm Jaydeep, a software professional from Kolkata. I created my profile at Shaadi.com in early September, 2004. In less than a month I met Hetal, a senior school teacher from Indore, on this site. We exchanged introductory mails, followed by instant messaging, SMS's and phone calls which went on for about 3-4 weeks. It started with with "getting to know you" kind of conversation and before we knew it, SMS'ing and Calling up each others had become indispensable part of our routines. Thats when we realized that we are made for each other. Finally, we both agreed upon the idea of involving our families to proceed further. As we both belonged to the same community , it did not take long for our families to exchange contacts and arrange a formal meeting for us. Hetal came along with her parents to Kolkata, we met face to face, and guess what?... We felt like we'v been knowing each other for ages. Parents and elders gave us a "GO AHEAD" and we got formally engaged with blessings of our families. All in a month's time. We are looking forward to get married in a few months. For a successful match-making and a happy marriage, both partners should get the opportunity to communicate effectively and set the expectations right before making a decision. We (Me and Hetal) think that in the world of electronic medium, shaadi.com is a great place to look for your soul mate regarless of distances and cultural differences. Thanks to SHAADI.COM for helping us find each other. You guys are doing a GREAT JOB, ALL THE BEST to SHAADI.COM TEAM.
Mariam & Abdul
After remaining widower for exact three years, i realised seriously to have a companion, to share my lonliness, hence started searching few websites. shaadi.com was the most effective sites, as, it has a wide range of candidates of all ages and from all the continants around the world. out of around 200 contacts, 8 or 10, came of my choice, as being in the age group of 66 yrs. i wanted the life partner of over 50 yrs. of age, having no children liabilities, so it took a bit long, but ultimately, MARIAM CASSIM (ID CENEMA), from south africa, working in king faisal hospital, saudi arabia, responded, and being on the mutual requirment, we decided to meet, a visit to riad, followed by a visit to dammam, helped us to understand each other, hence planned to get married on 30th sep.2004. nikah ceremony was solemnised in jeddah, at the residance of south african consulate general, who very graciously made arrangements of the wedding at his residance, the nikah was performed at a colourful but simple ceremony by imam pandey from south africa. thus a south african unmarried lady of 54 yrs., married to a pakistani man of 66. two weeks after wedding were spent in the holy places of mecca and madina, giving us enough time and oppertunities, not only to understand each other, but to pay our shukrana, to allah sobhana o taala, for uniting two people of entirely different culture , having no barrier at all, on the marital life. thanks and gratitude goes to shaadi.com team, as a whole for creating such a wonderful site, helping people of this global village to unite.
Bhavana & Dhaval
We are sincerely thankful to this wonderful site of yours... We were looking for our life partners and our search ended in Jan '04 when we decided on our marriage. We started talking to each other, understanding each other since July 2003 and after a year, we got married on 13 July '04 Only thing we would like to say. Life is a journey but final destination is finding your soulmate... and that we have found through the help of Shaadi.com...