Arranged Marriage

Arranged For Better or Worse Everyone knows how hard it is to find a mate for marriage. Having said that, each person is free to decide how the mate selection will take place. Some people would rather conduct this selection by themselves, without any help, while others prefer to get help from an outside source, like their parents or a matchmaker. Before continuing it is wise to make a distinction between the traditional arranged marriage …

…are made in heaven. We may never know how the heavenly angels' formula works, but there is palpable evidence that on this earth we have marriages where the partners find each other and marriages where the partners are selected for them by a third party, typically their parents. Although an arranged marriage differs from a love match in the after marriage life and husband-wife relationship, the principal differences lie in mate selection and social implications.