India

India is a country where multiple diversity people live. Every body loves the culture and tradition of India. India is known for many great epics like Ramayana, Mahabharata and etc etc. India is the birth place for great rivers like Ganga and Yamuna.

Most of the foreigner's love India because of it's culture and tradition. In india marriages are like celebrations. In olden days there was a tradition of swayamvara where different kings used to attend to show their bravery and marry the princess.

What is Swayamvara?
If a king has a daughter and he wanted to do her marriage. Then he needs to invite all the kings of his surroundings for swayamvara. Swayamvara means conducting a competition or asking to show their skills in bravery by which the princess father or princess used to choose her spouse.
For example in mahabharata Arjuna showed his skill of archery by shooting the arrow in the eye of a fish and married Dhropadi.

But in today's generation there are marriage bureaucracies, matrimonials, news papers, Inernet websites and media which are conducting the work of finding matches. Frankly speaking now- a- days marriage is like a business. It has totally became commercial. The girl's father has to give dowry to the bridegroom's father for the sake of marriage.

Dowry means giving money, property, valuable things like gold in the auspicious ceremony of marriage.