Mostly it was uttered by my friends who did love marriage rather than those who did arranged marriage. May be, people who did arranged marriage thinks they didn't get a chance to say so.
Customs such as arranged marriage, adopted marriage, marrying too early and polygamy reflect that authority of the family, the father and the husband plays an important part in Manchu marriage life, showing a strong patriarchal clan system.
As the romantic monsoon rains loom, the extended Verma family reunites from around the globe for a last-minute arranged marriage in New Delhi.
She added that the concept of arranged marriages is misunderstood in the west.
At the moment, marriage is still the norm in China and arranged marriage the norm in India.
At earlier time, Mao Dun mainly expressed his feeling about arranged marriage with his humanism and self-sacrifice spirit.
Cuiqiao, a girl from humble origins, is not satisfied with the arranged marriage her father makes for her but is unable to escape what's waiting for her ahead.
Thee happiness of arranged marriages means a couple can make magic if they try.
I had a couple in their 30's who were in an arranged marriage.
After all, in the past 2000-plus years, most of the arranged marriages did survive, and some of the couples did develop real love after their marriage.
However, we should not go to extremes and claim that all arranged marriages are failures.
An arranged marriage through some kind of intermediary or the elders, that's the great majority of human marriages.
At other times arranged marriages were done simply to help strengthen a country, or family.
So if you are one of those who is troubled by the fact that anyone can break your heart, perhaps you could opt for an arranged marriage.
This is a relatively modern change in the age-old custom of the arranged marriage.
I don't think all arranged marriages are wrong, but I think that if you're already in love with someone,
But the big exceptions are Asia's giants. At the moment, marriage is still the norm in China and arranged marriage the norm in India.
Ayaan Hirsi ali escaped an arranged marriage in her native Somalia by immigrating to the Netherlands. She now lives in Washington, where she is a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
That process of discovery is ostensibly the fun of courtship, too, except that in arranged marriage the goal is to figure out how to be married, not whether to marry.
