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Marriage biodata format

What goes on the page, in the order it is read.

6 sections26 fieldsOne A4 page

A marriage biodata is one page a family reads before deciding whether to talk to you. It is read top to bottom, once, usually quickly — so the order the details come in matters about as much as which details you pick. What follows is that order, section by section, with the 26 fields that go in each.

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Three of the 72 formats, filled in. The layout is the same in all of them: the identifying details first, the horoscope second, then education, family, and how to reach you.

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The six sections, in the order they are read

26 fields

01Personal Details

The identifying half of the page, and the part every reader looks at first. Height is written the way it is spoken — 5′ 9″ rather than 175 cm. Complexion and diet are asked for because families ask for them; both are ordinary to leave out, and a blank field does not print.

Personal Details fields and an example of each
Full NameRahul Sharma
Date of Birth22 November 1988
Time of Birth10:30 AM
Place of BirthMumbai, Maharashtra
GenderMale
Height5'9"
ComplexionWheatish
DietVegetarian

02Horoscope Details

The section families check before any other, and the one most people cannot fill in from memory. Rashi is the moon sign — the sign the Moon stood in at your birth, not the sun sign a newspaper column means. Nakshatra is the lunar mansion, one of twenty-seven. Manglik describes Mars sitting in one of a few particular houses. Gotra and caste are lineage, and plenty of families leave both off. Fill in your birth details and the first three are worked out for you.

Horoscope Details fields and an example of each
Rashi (Moon Sign)Aries
NakshatraBharani
ManglikNo
GotraKashyap
CasteBrahmin

03Education & Career

Degree and where it was taken, then what you do now. Annual income is the field people agonise over: it is genuinely optional, it is left blank on a great many biodatas, and leaving it blank is not read as hiding something.

Education & Career fields and an example of each
EducationB.Tech
OccupationSoftware Engineer
Annual Income12-20 LPA

04Family Details

This is on the page because a marriage proposal is read as being about two families rather than two people. Parents’ occupations are conventional to include; siblings are usually one line each, with what they do. Family type means joint or nuclear, and it is a genuine question about what daily life would look like.

Family Details fields and an example of each
Father's NameShri Ramesh Sharma
Father's OccupationGovernment Job
Mother's NameSmt. Sunita Sharma
Mother's OccupationHomemaker
Siblings1 Younger Sister
Family TypeNuclear

05Contact Details

Frequently not the person the biodata is about. A great many of these go out through a parent or an elder relative, and the number on the page is theirs. Put whichever is true — the wrong one wastes the first phone call.

Contact Details fields and an example of each
Contact Number+91 98765 43210
Email Addressrahul.sharma@example.com
AddressAndheri West, Mumbai

06What I am looking for

The only free-text field, and the only place your own voice appears. Two or three sentences. What reads well is specific and short; what reads badly is a paragraph of adjectives that would fit anybody.

What I am looking for fields and an example of each
What you are looking forA partner who values family and their own work equally. Education matters more to us than horoscope perfection.
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How long it should be

one page

One side of A4. Families compare several at a time and a second page is frequently not read at all. That is a real constraint on the two free-text fields rather than a style preference — if the expectations paragraph runs long, it is the section that pushes the contact details onto a page nobody reaches.

Leave out what does not apply. A blank field should not print, and a section with nothing in it should not print its heading either — an empty Education & Career reads worse than no such heading at all.

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Four things that go wrong

01A guessed time of birth

The most costly one, because it fails quietly. Rashi and nakshatra are worked out from the moment of birth, and the ascendant moves about fifteen degrees an hour — a nakshatra can be under an hour wide. A guess does not produce a blank; it produces a confident, wrong nakshatra that a family may check. If the time was never written down, leaving those fields empty is the honest answer and a common one.

02A photograph that is not of you alone

A group photograph, or one cropped so tightly it distorts. One clear picture, head and shoulders, taken in daylight.

03Formatting that changes halfway down

Two date formats on one sheet, or a label in bold in one section and not the next. It is the thing a reader notices without being able to say what they noticed.

04An expectations paragraph that fits anybody

“Looking for a well-educated person from a good family” describes every proposal ever sent. Two specific sentences do more work than ten general ones.

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