Punjabi matrimony
Punjabi rishtey from a Delhi marriage bureau
A Punjabi marriage bureau in Delhi for Hindu and Sikh families, and abroad.
Punjabi marriage bureau
A Punjabi marriage bureau, in Delhi and abroad
Punjabi rishtey since 2012, for Hindu and Sikh families in Delhi and abroad.
The full answer
Evara Matrimony has arranged Punjabi rishtey since 2012 as a Delhi marriage bureau, for Hindu and Sikh Punjabi families in Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, across India and abroad, in Hindi or English. Joining is free, membership brings matches chosen around your preferences each morning, and Select or Reserve, each priced separately, adds a named matchmaker who chooses by hand.
The proof that exists today
What you can check
Instead of a testimonial you have no way of checking, here is what is verifiable about Evara before you pay anything.
One office, one address
117, 1st Floor, NDM-1, Netaji Subhash Place, Pitampura, Delhi-110034. By appointment only. Call to schedule.
Raynu Garg, Founder and Director
She built this practice over fourteen years and still sets how a family is profiled. The about page carries her record.
A person, not a switchboard
+91 93555 66533, answered by voice and on WhatsApp. Monday to Saturday, 10 AM to 7 PM IST.
A written method
The profiling questions, the photo check and the introduction sequence are written down here and on the experience page, so you can hold us to them.
Standing on the record
50,000+ clients since 2012. Evara works with Punjabi families in Delhi NCR, elsewhere in India and in the diaspora.
- Clients50,000+
- Years14+
How it works.
Three steps, all in the Evara app.
Create your profile
Verified before it goes live.
Receive your matches
Each morning, in the app.
Say hello
Chat opens when you both agree.
Two ways to begin.
On the Evara app, or with a dedicated matchmaker for your family.
You see your matches and choose. Every profile is verified before it goes live.
- Create your profileFree, in a few minutes
- Matches each morningChosen around your preferences
- Chat when you both say yesOn the Evara app
Free to join
Start free membershipA matchmaker who knows your family searches for you.
- Meet your matchmakerOne person, for your whole search
- Handpicked profilesShortlisted and sent on WhatsApp
- Meetings arrangedWhen both families agree
From ₹51,000
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Punjabi families, and how far we reach
Who this is for
Evara Matrimony is a Punjabi marriage bureau in Delhi for Hindu and Sikh Punjabi families in Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Ghaziabad and abroad. Membership sends matches chosen for you each day, and Select or Reserve adds a named matchmaker who chooses by hand. To start, call or WhatsApp +91 93555 66533, Monday to Saturday, 10 AM to 7 PM IST, in Hindi or English.
This page is for a Punjabi family deciding where to take a marriage search. Some of you are in Delhi, Gurgaon or Noida. Some have a son or a daughter in Toronto, Vancouver, London or Melbourne while the rest of the family is still in West Delhi. Evara works with both, and with the common middle case, where the parents are here and the person to be married is not.
The office is one address: 117, 1st Floor, NDM-1, Netaji Subhash Place, Pitampura, Delhi-110034. That is where the practice is run from and where families sit down with us when they want a table rather than a phone. By appointment only. Call to schedule. The address is provenance, not a perimeter. Evara matches Punjabi families across Delhi NCR, across India and in the diaspora, and living in another country changes the logistics of a meeting rather than your access to the service.
One thing to settle before you read further, because families ask it and a wrong answer wastes everybody’s time. Evara serves in Hindi and English. Service in the Punjabi language is not something Evara offers, and we would rather say so here than let you find out on the first call. What we do hold is the Punjabi context, and that is a different thing: the sub-communities, the roka and the chunni, the anand karaj, the milni, the festivals a family keeps, all of it set out lower down this page. Recording your community and its customs accurately is our work, and we would rather you knew where the line sits before you pay anything than discover it on the first call.
Your family is part of this from the first call. Parents ask most of the early questions, and often a brother, an aunt or a grandparent is on the line as well. What the family decides stays with the family. Evara brings introductions and explains what it knows about each one. It does not push a decision, it does not rule on gotra, and where a kundali is read on Select, what weight the chart carries is still your family’s call. Two limits belong on the first screen rather than in small print: a cap exists on how many introductions are in motion at one time, and membership does not come with a person assigned to your household.
What actually happens, step by step
The process
It starts with a call. +91 93555 66533 is answered by voice and on WhatsApp at the same desk, and email reaches connect@evaramatrimony.com. The desk works Monday to Saturday, 10 AM to 7 PM IST. If you would rather we open the conversation, leave your details on the contact page and we will call you. There is no booking calendar on this site, so the phone, WhatsApp and that form are the doors.
The second step is the profiling conversation, and it is the long one. We ask where your family actually sits: strictly inside your own sub-community, open across Punjabi Hindu and Sikh households where values and customs align, or open on community altogether and concerned with the person and the family. We ask which customs you keep, because a family that holds a full roka, a shagun and a chunni ceremony is telling us something real about what it expects. We ask about education, work, diet, whether the match is expected to settle in India or abroad, and who in the household has a say. The questionnaire linked from this site covers much of this if you would rather arrive with your answers already in order.
Then the profile is built, and here the order matters. A profile carries its details in full before anyone sees it, the photographs go through an automated check, and our team looks at whatever that check cannot clear. Service begins when the profile is live and the term is paid. On membership, matches start reaching you from that day. On Select, Reserve or Luxe, the matchmaker works from day one of the term you have bought. Nothing starts before payment, and nothing sits waiting on a queue position.
Introductions then come one family at a time. For a match across borders we set up a video meeting first, so both households can meet properly before anyone books a flight. In-person meetings get planned around a trip home, a cousin’s wedding, or Lohri and Vaisakhi when the relatives are gathered anyway. If your family wants to meet at the Pitampura office instead, that is by appointment. Where a family is spread over three cities and two countries, we run the same process and simply do more of it on the phone.
From Punjabi Bagh to Gurgaon and Ghaziabad
Across Delhi NCR
The matchmaking is the same wherever a Punjabi family lives in the NCR. What changes is how easily you can sit across a table from us. Many of the old Punjabi colonies of West Delhi are on the same metro line as the office: Punjabi Bagh West is two stops from Netaji Subhash Place on the Pink Line and Rajouri Garden is four, and the same line comes up from Lajpat Nagar in the south without a change of train. For those families a visit, by appointment, is an afternoon rather than an expedition.
Gurgaon and Noida are further out, with changes of train either way, so for families there the first call, the profiling conversation and the introductions can all happen on the phone or over video, and a visit to the office can wait until there is a decision worth a table. The routes are set out on the marriage bureau for Gurgaon families page and the matrimonial services in Noida page. From Ghaziabad the Red Line runs to Netaji Subhash Place with no change at all, which the Ghaziabad marriage bureau page describes.
Many Punjabi families are split between the NCR and another country, and for them the hours matter more than the distance. The desk works to Indian time, and the answer to when a family in Brampton, Surrey or Southall can reach it is in the questions at the end of this page. The NRI matchmaking page covers the rest of a search across borders: visits home, meetings on video, and the documents only a family can check.
Before a roka, the questions worth asking
Roka and ceremony
For many Punjabi families the roka is the moment a match stops being a conversation and becomes a commitment between two households. It is often a small family occasion, and its date, its size and who attends are for the two families to decide, not for Evara. What helps is asking, while it is still easy, the questions that tend to surface after a roka: where the couple will live, whether both will keep working, how each family spends a festival, and what each side expects of the wedding itself. Raise them with us on the first call and they go into your brief.
Ceremony is one of those questions when a Punjabi Hindu family and a Sikh family are considering each other. Many Sikh families expect the anand karaj at a gurdwara, many Hindu Punjabi families expect the pheras around the sacred fire, and some couples hold both. Kundali is another: many Hindu Punjabi families match kundalis and many Sikh families do not use them, so each side should know early what the other assumes. Our Sikh matchmaking and anand karaj page is written for Sikh families on their own terms, and because a Khatri family can be Hindu or Sikh, the Khatri rishtey page treats both together.
One practical safeguard sits in the Select service itself: contact details are shared only when both families agree. A phone number reaches the other side after both households have said yes to going further, not before, which keeps an early no from turning into an awkward round of calls.
Checking and privacy
What the check proves, and what it does not
Evara says checked rather than verified, and the difference is not cosmetic. An automated check compares the photographs on a profile, and our team reviews anything that check cannot clear. What it establishes is photo consistency: that the pictures in front of you are pictures of the same person. Completeness is a separate gate, and it comes first, because a profile with the details missing is not shown to anyone. What each check establishes, and what it does not, is set out on the profile verification page. How profiles are checked.
It establishes nothing beyond that. It is not proof of identity, and it confirms nothing written on a biodata: not age, not income, not education, not marital status, not community, and not gotra. A family that wants any of those established should ask for the documents and satisfy itself, the way families always have. The full scope is written out on the profile verification page, and we would rather you read it than assume a check means more than it does.
Privacy here has a plain scope, and the site states it in one line. Seen by Evara members, not the public. Your profile is shown inside Evara rather than published for anyone to come across. That is a real protection and it is not the same thing as invisibility, so we will not dress it up as more. If your family wants a lighter footprint than a standard profile carries, say so on the first call and we will tell you honestly what can and cannot be arranged.
One more scope note, because Punjabi families abroad ask it directly. Nothing above changes because you live in Canada, the United Kingdom or Australia. The same check runs on the same profile and the same limits hold. Evara does not run an overseas background check, does not confirm a foreign income document, and does not verify immigration status. For a match across borders those often matter a great deal, so ask for the papers directly and take your own advice on them. We would rather name the edge of what we do than let a family assume a reach we do not have.
Cost, distance, time, and what if nothing comes of it
The practical questions
Cost and renewal first. A monthly membership renews until you turn renewal off. The 3, 6 and 12 month terms and lifetime do not renew at all. Cancelling means turning renewal off, and your membership then stays open to the end of the term you have already paid for. Select, Reserve and Luxe are bought separately from membership and are paid from day one of the term, because a named matchmaker starts working on day one.
Refunds next, stated plainly, because it is the thing families tend to discover late. All payments are final and non-refundable, and that includes an unused period, a voluntary cancellation, and the case where you do not find a match. Evara promises no outcome, and the refund rule that follows from it is on the payment terms page. If no match is found.
Distance and time come next, and they come from almost every family split between Delhi and another country. The answer is scheduling rather than anything clever. The desk works Monday to Saturday, 10 AM to 7 PM IST, and a family in Surrey or Southall is usually reaching us at the edge of that window, so we agree a time on the phone instead of trading missed calls. Meetings run on video until both households want to travel. Nobody needs to fly for a first conversation, and nobody needs to be in Delhi to start.
And if nothing comes of it, we will say so rather than keep sending introductions to fill out a term. Evara does not promise an outcome, and it publishes no statistic about outcomes, because it holds none. What it commits to is the process above: the profiling conversation, the photo check, introductions chosen either by the system or by a named matchmaker, and a family that keeps every decision that matters.
If you are comparing us with other bureaus, and you should, put the same questions to every one of them: who will actually choose the introductions, what is checked on a profile and what is not, what is paid and when, and what happens if nothing comes of it. How to evaluate a matchmaker sets those questions out in full, and this page is our answer to them.
A community that rebuilt Delhi
For Punjabi families
Delhi is home to one of the largest Punjabi communities in the world, and that is a fact of 1947 before it is a fact of anything else. Partition brought a large influx of Punjabi Hindu and Sikh families into the city. Delhi’s population reached 1,744,072 by 1951, and historians have described what followed as an overwhelmingly Punjabi city. Families arrived with very little and rebuilt, and the neighbourhood a family names today often records where its grandparents were resettled.
You can read that history in the map. West Delhi colonies such as Rajouri Garden, Punjabi Bagh, Patel Nagar, Kirti Nagar, and Moti Nagar, along with Rajinder Nagar in the centre, Lajpat Nagar and Model Town, and Tilak Nagar with its strong Sikh presence, all grew from resettlement. Punjabi, in the Gurmukhi script, is a second official language of Delhi under the Delhi Official Language Act of 2000. For a Punjabi family, marrying within this world is not only about two people. It is about continuity with everything the previous generation built.
One community, many families
Sub-communities
Punjabi is not one community so much as a family of them. Among Punjabi Hindu households you will find Khatri, Arora, Sood and Bhatia families. Among Sikh households, Jat, Ramgarhia, Ahluwalia, Khatri and Arora, among others. These are named here as identity and as matchmaking context. They are not a ranking, and Evara does not sort families by status or by wealth.
What this means in practice is that a family’s brief is specific. Some families wish to match strictly within their sub-community. Others are open across Punjabi communities, or between Hindu Punjabi and Sikh Punjabi families, provided values and customs align. Some are entirely open on community and care most about the person and the family. Our job is to understand exactly where your family sits, ask the questions that matter early, and never assume.
The customs a family keeps
Customs and ceremonies
For many Punjabi families, compatibility is partly about whether both sides keep similar customs. The alliance often begins with a roka, an early agreement between the families, followed by a shagun or thaka and the chunni ceremony, where the bride is welcomed by the groom’s family. The celebrations that follow, the sangeet and mehndi, are as much about two families getting to know each other as about the couple.
For Sikh families the wedding itself is the anand karaj, solemnised at the gurdwara with the four lavaan, hymns composed by Guru Ram Das, read from the Guru Granth Sahib as the couple circles it, and often a langar that welcomes everyone regardless of background. The Anand Karaj is recognised in law under the Anand Marriage Act of 1909, and a 2012 amendment made provision for registering such marriages, which matters for documentation later. The milni, where the two families formally greet each other, matters a great deal. Occasions like Lohri, Vaisakhi, which also marks the founding of the Khalsa in 1699, and Karva Chauth mark the year for many families and are part of what they hope to share with a new member.
A community that settled the world
In Delhi and abroad
Few Indian communities travelled as widely as Punjabis, and for many families a match today spans continents. Punjabi is one of the most widely spoken languages in Canada, where cities like Brampton and Surrey have large Punjabi and Sikh communities. In Britain, Southall in west London has been a centre of Punjabi life for generations, and there are long-established communities across the West Midlands. The United States and Australia carry sizeable Punjabi populations too. A family in Delhi looking for a match settled abroad, or a family in Toronto or London looking to marry back into the community, is not an exception here. It is one of the most common searches we handle.
Matching across the diaspora asks for the same care as matching within Delhi, plus a few things more: an honest conversation about whether a family plans to settle abroad or return, about the customs a family raised in Canada or the UK still keeps, and about coordinating two households in different time zones. We handle introductions video-first so both families can meet properly before anyone travels, and we plan in-person meetings around visits home and festivals. The community that rebuilt Delhi after 1947 is now a global one, and good matchmaking has to work at that scale.
A checklist for Punjabi families
Before the first call
Talk these through at home first. None needs a final answer, but a family that has discussed them gives the first conversation far more to work with.
Who is on which call
If the parents are in Delhi and the son or daughter is in Toronto or Melbourne, decide who speaks for the family, who should hear first when there is an introduction, and whether the person to be married joins from the start.
Ceremony and observance
Anand karaj, pheras, or both. For a Sikh family, the level of observance you are looking for in the other household, including whether the match is Amritdhari.
Kundali and gotra
Whether your family matches kundalis, and which gotras it avoids. Evara matches on community, not on gotra, so that list stays with you to apply.
Food, drink and functions
Vegetarian or not at home, and where the family stands on alcohol at weddings and parties. Families differ widely on both, and a difference is easier to discuss before a roka than at the sangeet.
After the wedding
Which city the couple will live in, with parents or on their own, and whether a move abroad is a plan, a possibility or ruled out.
What you will check yourselves
Which documents you will ask the other family for, and who will read them. For a match settled abroad, that includes proof of work and residence status, which only the family can check.
What we record about your family
Why Evara for Punjabi families
Punjabi communities
Khatri, Arora, Sood, Bhatia, Ramgarhia, Ahluwalia, Jat Sikh
Resettlement Delhi
Rajouri Garden, Punjabi Bagh, Patel Nagar, Model Town, Tilak Nagar
Ceremonial custom
Roka, shagun, thaka, chunni and anand karaj, noted from the first conversation
Families settled abroad
Punjabi families in Canada, the UK, the United States, Australia
Two routes, and what each one costs
What it costs
What separates the two is who does the choosing. One sends you matches every day. The other puts a named person on your family and keeps them there for the whole term.
Membership
₹999 a month, and joining is free
Algorithmic. Matches are chosen around your preferences and arrive each day; every profile is verified before it goes live, and its photos are approved by a person. Nobody at Evara is assigned to your family, and a dedicated matchmaker is not included. Lifetime works the same way and is paid once. Membership does not include a matchmaker, and the membership page sets out what selection involves and what the Select and Reserve tiers add. Is a matchmaker included.
See membership and lifetime pricing
Personalised matchmaking
Select from ₹51,000 for 6 months (also ₹75,000 for 12 months or ₹1,00,000 until married)
Reserve is ₹2,51,000 in total, in two parts, with the second part due at a Roka with a family Evara introduced. Luxe is by invitation.
Human. A named relationship manager reads your family, chooses every introduction by hand, and is with you at family meetings in Delhi NCR, and on video call across India, planning around time zones and visits home. Reserve is the senior service above Select. Each is bought separately, from the other and from membership.
See Select and Reserve pricing
Longer membership terms and lifetime are priced on the membership page. Select and Reserve are priced inclusive of GST, and each has its own page. Payments are final, including unused periods, and Payment Terms carries the detail on duplicate or failed charges.
Membership is ₹999 a month and joining is free. A dedicated matchmaker is not included. Hours and appointments: where the office is.
Evara publishes a client story only when the family has given written consent, and no consented story for a Punjabi or NRI search is published yet. What you can check today is the office, the named people who answer the phone, and the process on this page.
Punjabi matchmaking across Delhi NCR
Where Punjabi families find us
Other communities we serve
Expanding your search
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Punjabi matrimony FAQs
What language will our conversations be in?
Evara serves in Hindi and English, and you may use either. Service in the Punjabi language is not something Evara offers, and we would rather say that plainly than let a family assume otherwise. Punjabi community, sub-community and ceremonial detail is a separate matter: that we do know, we ask about it in the first conversation, and we record it on your brief.
What does our family decide, and what does Evara decide?
Evara decides which introductions to put in front of you: by the system on membership and lifetime, or by a named matchmaker on Select, Reserve and Luxe. Your family decides everything after that. Parents and relatives are in the conversation from the first call, and what the family decides stays with the family.
What does it cost, and when does the service actually begin?
Membership is monthly, with 3, 6 and 12 month terms and a lifetime option, and joining is free. Select is Personalised matchmaking, bought for 6 months, 12 months or until you are married. Reserve sits above it as one fixed total in two parts, with the second part due at a Roka with a family Evara introduced, and Luxe is by invitation. The membership and Select pages carry the current figures. Membership matching begins once your profile is live. Joining Evara is free, and it stays free. You pay for membership in the portal when you buy it. A Personalised matchmaking term runs from the day it is bought.
Do you match within specific Punjabi communities like Khatri, Arora, or Ramgarhia?
Evara matches on community, both Hindu and Sikh, or across communities when a family is open to it. We ask about this early so introductions fit your family from the start.
Common questions
Is Evara only for families in Delhi, given the office is in Pitampura?
No. The one office at Netaji Subhash Place in Pitampura is where the practice is run from, and it is not the edge of the service. Evara matches Punjabi families across Delhi NCR, elsewhere in India and in the diaspora. If you cannot come to the office, everything from the profiling conversation to the introductions runs on the phone and on video.
How does Evara handle gotra and family customs?
Evara matches on community, not on gotra. Where a family observes gotra rules, that judgement stays with the household and its own tradition. Ceremonial customs we do note in the first profiling conversation.
Can you match Hindu Punjabi and Sikh Punjabi families?
We work with both. Many families prefer to match within their own community, and we respect that. Where families are open to a match between Hindu Punjabi and Sikh Punjabi households, we look carefully at whether values and customs align before making an introduction.
Do you serve Punjabi families living abroad?
Yes. The Punjabi diaspora is large in Canada, the UK, the United States, and Australia, with well-known communities in cities such as Brampton, Surrey, and around Southall in London. We regularly connect Punjabi families in Delhi NCR with families settled abroad, and coordinate introductions across time zones with video-first meetings.
Is a Sikh Anand Karaj marriage legally recognised, and can it be registered?
Yes. The Anand Karaj is recognised under the Anand Marriage Act of 1909, and the 2012 amendment made provision for registering Anand Karaj marriages, which is useful for later documentation such as visas or name changes. We are not lawyers and point families to official sources for the formalities, but the ceremony itself has clear legal standing.
Which parts of Delhi NCR have the Punjabi families you work with?
Punjabi families are settled across the region, with long-established communities in West Delhi areas such as Rajouri Garden and Punjabi Bagh, in South Delhi, North Delhi, and across Gurgaon and Noida. We serve all of Delhi NCR, and match within the region or with your home city and the diaspora.
Do you arrange Punjabi rishtey in Gurgaon and Noida as well as Delhi?
Yes. The office is in North Delhi, and Punjabi families in Gurgaon, Noida, Faridabad and the rest of Delhi NCR work with us by phone, on video, or at the office by appointment. The profiling conversation, the photo check and the two routes are the same wherever your family lives, and introductions can stay inside the region or reach families abroad.
Are Punjabi rishtey on Evara free?
Joining is free, and your profile and photographs stay free, permanently. A paid membership adds more interests to send and more matches, chosen around your preferences, each day. A named matchmaker is a separate service, Select or Reserve, and each of them is priced on its own page. The cost section above shows both routes.
What makes Evara a Punjabi marriage bureau rather than a matrimony site?
People are in the process. Your family is heard on the first call, a person looks at each profile before it appears, and on Select or Reserve a named matchmaker chooses every introduction by hand and plans the meetings. A matrimony site lists profiles and leaves the searching to you. Membership sits between the two: suitable profiles are chosen for you, and nobody is assigned to your family.
When two Punjabi families are ready to meet, where does it happen, and is anyone from Evara there?
Where the two families meet is their choice: one of the two homes, a place both sides agree on, or our Delhi office by appointment. On Select and Reserve, whether the other family is in Punjabi Bagh, Gurgaon or Ghaziabad, your relationship manager is with you at family meetings in Delhi NCR, and on video call across India. A relationship manager comes with Select and Reserve, not with membership, so on membership the two families arrange the meeting between themselves.
Does Evara do kundali matching for Punjabi families?
On Select, yes. It includes kundali matching for each shortlisted profile, and a detailed analysis for the one you approve. It also includes a consultation with our in-house astrologer when you join. Reserve includes everything in Select. Many Sikh families do not use kundalis, and if yours is one of them, say so on the first call. However a chart reads, the decision stays with your family.
Is anything due to Evara at the roka?
On Reserve, yes, because Reserve is paid in two parts. The second part is due at a Roka with a family Evara introduced. Nothing is due at a roka on membership or on Select, which are paid when they are bought. The date, the size and the guest list of the roka are for the two families to decide, and Reserve includes our team involved at every step, through to a confirmed Roka.
We live in Brampton, Surrey or Southall. When can we reach Evara?
The desk works Monday to Saturday, 10 AM to 7 PM IST, and India does not change its clocks. Toronto and Brampton are 9 hours 30 minutes behind India in the northern summer and 10 hours 30 minutes behind India in winter, so in summer the desk is open from 12:30 AM to 9:30 AM your time. Vancouver and Surrey are 12 hours 30 minutes behind India in summer and 13 hours 30 minutes behind India in winter, which puts the desk at 9:30 PM to 6:30 AM your time, from the evening before into the early morning. London and Southall are 4 hours 30 minutes behind India in summer and 5 hours 30 minutes behind India in winter, so the desk is open from 5:30 AM to 2:30 PM. In winter each window starts an hour earlier on your clock. Outside those hours, send a WhatsApp message to +91 93555 66533 and a person replies once the desk is open.
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