A marriage in Jaipur
Married eleven months after registration · Jaipur
The girl’s father registered in the spring and was, in Mrs. Shalini’s words, "very sure and completely wrong" about what he was looking for. Three proposals were declined for reasons the bureau thought were about the wrong things.
The fourth was a family the father would not have picked from a list. Both sides met in our office in November. They were married the following autumn.