Welcome to arrangeurownmarriage.com, an art project that mirrors marriage and matchmaking websites in the wide world of the Internet. Participate in the preparation of your marriage, from designing your wedding invite to choosing your partner's ideal body parts and legalizing your union. Indicate your linguistic and religious preferences, and select your ideal honeymoon destinations. We bring you the entire matchmaking experience for free. Enjoy!
I started this project based on the idea of arranged marriages. This project came as an interest to me with the question of my grandparents and their siblings all having blue and green eyes and fair skin colour. My roots are from Mangalore. The city has always been a port city. My relatives claim to be pure Brahmins. These two facts raised lots of questions to me. The thought of so many colonisers entering the region through this port and settling down, mingling with the locals, and the exchange of culture. Marriages and conversion within different communities happened in all the classes. Of course, few relationships would have developed which were not uttered and kept secret till today.
I always wondered how our family, who claim to be pure Brahmin, believes in marriages within their own caste, religion and languages, etc. When I questioned them it was considered as rude and insult to the family. I began investigating on the purity of my blood and came across the dot com's and various other criteria of pure marriages. Though I started my series of work as a take off from the TV serials and the dot com's, the concept of selling marriages and its products became the focal point in my part -1. But the investigation of purity and blood still continues. This will be focused in part –2.
In part- 1 it was more of the concept of the pain of meeting and looking at each other and then trying to make your parents and relatives happy, or spending so much of money to impress each other before anything is finalized. But now you just need to go online and search and chat with the person and finalize it, and just before the marriage you meet each other and from next day is your happy day. So now you can arrange your own marriage.
The middleman is the dot com a virtual space. And the opportunity is to arrange your own marriage. Here not to worry about caste, or religion or language or country. But you can also be very specific to your caste, religion, language, state or country, without involving your parents, your aunt, uncle, cousins, grandparents, grandaunts… the package is totally for this generation and for the next generation.
But nothings changes 'The Arrange' remains an 'arrange' the person is unknown; the ultimate marriage is within the religious circle. Of course the software engineers in USA/Europe as they get lonely in the huge country and start getting nostalgic thinking of their country misses the food and tradition. And here the well educated women who are desperate to go to the divine place USA/Europe have the opportunity to go, doesn't matter how the guy is or looks but their status and luxury is looked after. Such a pride to tell the people at home I live in USA/Europe or the parents have the chance to tell 'my son/daughter lives in USA/Europe a green card holder. All thanks to the dot com's which made life easier.
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