Shaadi.com

Shaadi.com is a popular and established matchmaking online site for single Indian women and men with matrimonial mind. It was launched in 1996 and has quickly grown into the world’s largest matrimonial site. In 2008, the service won the PC World prize for the ‘best designed matrimony website’ and is an overall winner in ‘Matrimony’ category. Other institutions like Alexa ranked it ‘the top 10 most visited websites in India’.

Shaadi.com caters to Indians from all cultural communities, religion and locations by featuring millions of its members’ profiles from more than 25 communities including Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi, Mayalam, Tamil, Telugu and more. There are currently more than 10 million Asian members with 6,000 new profiles being created every day. As Shaddi.com's report that since it went online. they have been responsible for introducing life partners that have resulted in over 1.3 million marriages, and the no. is still keeps on growing.

The site is very well designed and has some of the best features available in web technology. For example:
- The search technology at shaadi.com combined with the partner profile helps you find your most compatible partner;
- Shaadi.com offers free profile attestation service – Your personal information will be verified by Shaadi and if all okay, it will display a Shaadi Seal on the member’s profile;
- You can add videos to your personal profile; You can Secure Talk to the members and get to know them, without revealing your number;
- You can opt for a personal matchmaking assistant – someone who will be in regular touch with you and keep you informed of all new members who might be a fit for you. They will help you in all aspects of your partner search.
- You can search for partners whose horoscope matches your horoscope – all the matching done automatically.

At Shaadi.com, there are three different options once you decide to go for the paid membership: platinum, diamond and gold. Besides dating and matrimonial service, shaadi offers additional services like matrimonial classifieds in indian community newspapers across the World and an online shop where you can find almost anything starting from fashion item.