A marriage bureau and matrimonial service in Delhi

Who this is for

The real difficulty for serious Delhi families is not finding profiles. It is trust, and finding genuinely compatible people rather than a longer list. That is the work Evara has done for families across the capital and the wider NCR since 2012, from our office in Pitampura in North Delhi.

This page is written for the parent who is doing the looking, and for the son or daughter the search is for. You can sit with us in Pitampura, or speak to us on the phone or over video if crossing the city on a working day is not realistic. Where a family lives changes how a meeting is arranged. It does not change whether we can help.

The limits are worth stating in the same breath as the offer. There is exactly one office. We do not keep a branch in another city and we do not put a local agent in a colony near you. Searches for Delhi families, for families elsewhere in India, and for families settled abroad are all run from that one desk. We work in Hindi and English.

How a consultation runs

First, a conversation, and it costs nothing. You call the office, or you leave an enquiry and we will call you. Evara starts with a conversation, not a form. We sit with your family to understand community, whether specific customs apply, dietary and lifestyle preferences, the zones and cities you are open to, career expectations, and the harder-to-name things that decide compatibility for you. Most of that first conversation is us listening. Nothing is charged for it and you are not asked for a card.

Second, you choose the route, and you choose it knowing what both cost. The question that decides it is whether your search needs a person on it. If it does not, membership does the work for a small fraction of the price. Membership matching begins once the profile is complete, and the matches chosen for you start arriving from there. Joining Evara is free, and it stays free. You pay for membership in the portal when you buy it. Personalised matchmaking begins on the day it is bought, because it is paid from day one, and that payment is what puts a named person on your file.

Third, the work. On membership the daily matches are chosen for you, and you say yes or no to each one. On Select or Reserve a matchmaker chooses each introduction by hand and presents a small number of them, each with our reasoning for why this family could work for yours. When interest is mutual, we coordinate the meeting, the venue, and the follow-up conversations. A South Delhi family with a daughter in a corporate career and a West Delhi business family often want different things, and we plan for that from the first meeting.

One honest note on logistics. There is no booking calendar on this site and no slot for you to reserve. You speak to a person, and the time to come in is agreed between you on that call. Visits to the office are by appointment only, which is why there is a number to ring rather than a calendar to click.

Matchmaking in Delhi

On Select or Reserve, one named person carries your family’s search. Select gives your family a dedicated relationship manager, profiles shortlisted to your preferences with regular, considered introductions, and kundali matching for each shortlisted profile, with a detailed analysis for the one you approve, plus a consultation with our in-house astrologer when you join. Contact details pass only when both families agree, and your relationship manager is with you at family meetings in Delhi NCR. Reserve adds a senior relationship manager, a professional portfolio photoshoot, and meetings arranged and coordinated by the Evara team, with our team involved at every step through to a confirmed Roka. The full list for each plan is on the Select and Reserve pages.

The work runs in the order our guide to how matchmaking works sets out: a long conversation first, then a short list with a reason beside each name, then the first approach to the other family, often on video, then a follow-up after every meeting until both sides decide. The matchmaker makes that first contact, so neither family has to risk a direct approach that could be misread. Community detail belongs in the first conversation too, and how we handle Khatri rishtey in Delhi and a Marwari family’s search is set out on those pages.

The first call is short on selling and long on questions. Ring or WhatsApp +91 93555 66533, Monday to Saturday, 10 AM to 7 PM IST, and expect to be asked who the search is for, which communities and cities your family would consider, which customs must be respected, and what you will not compromise on. Ask your own questions back: who would handle your file, what a profile check covers and what it leaves to you, and what you would pay and when. If the answers suit you, you can join free that day or agree a time to come in. If they do not, you have paid nothing.

Judging a bureau

Delhi has matchmakers of every kind, from a relative who knows half the community to a bureau above a market, and some of both are very good. The way to tell them apart is to put the same questions to each and compare the answers side by side. Our guide to evaluating a matchmaker lists the red flags, the green flags and the questions to take into a first meeting. The short version, for a family comparing matchmakers in Delhi this month, is six questions.

Can we visit, and is the address the same one on the listing and the receipt? Who will handle our file, by name, and will that person come to meetings? What does the profile check establish, and what does it leave to us, given that a photo check is not an identity check and nobody can vouch for an income without seeing documents? Are prices and payment terms written down before we pay, including what happens if the search ends without a marriage? Does anyone promise a match, a number of introductions or a date? Nobody controls whether two families say yes, so treat any such promise as a warning. And is our family kept out of public view, with phone numbers shared only when both sides agree?

Put the same six questions to us. Visiting is the easiest check of all: the office is on the first floor of NDM-1 in the Netaji Subhash Place district centre, beside the metro station where the Red Line and the Pink Line meet. Families in Ghaziabad can ride the Red Line through to it without a change, and families in Noida can take the Blue Line to Rajouri Garden and change there to the Pink Line for four stops. Our pages on matchmaking in Noida and matchmaking in Ghaziabad cover what else differs for families there. Visits are by appointment, so fix the time on the phone first.

Best matchmaker in Delhi NCR

Lists of the best matchmakers in Delhi rarely say how each one charges, and that is where families are caught out. Bureaus in the city charge in one of a few ways: a fixed fee for a term, a registration fee with a second payment at an engagement or Roka, or a quote given privately. Ask which one, in writing, before you pay. Our page on matchmaking charges in India sets out every model and every Evara price, with GST included.

Ask, too, what happens if the bureau arranges nothing. Keep the receipt, the written terms and the name of the person you paid. A family that paid for a service and received none can take a complaint to the district consumer commission, and a bureau that hesitates to put its terms in writing is telling you something. Our own terms are written down before you pay.

Not every Delhi family needs a matchmaker at all. If you have the time to search and a clear brief, a membership may be enough, and our guide to choosing between a matchmaker and a matrimony app sets the two side by side. Families comparing us with the large sites can read Shaadi.com, Jeevansathi and BharatMatrimony alternatives, and families searching from abroad can read what NRI matchmaking costs and what to check.

Scoped honestly

An automated photo check compares the photographs on a profile, and our team reviews anything the check cannot clear. What it establishes is photo consistency. That is a real thing to establish and it is worth having. What each check establishes, and what it does not, is set out on the profile verification page. How profiles are checked.

It is not proof of identity, and it verifies nothing that a family has written on a biodata. Not age. Not income. Not education. Not marital status. Not community, and not gotra. We would rather put that in plain words here than let a family in Delhi assume a mark on a profile means more than it does. Ask for documents at the stage your family would normally ask for them, and read them yourself. The detail of what the check covers is set out on the profile verification page, and it is short enough to read in a sitting.

On privacy, the reason it matters here is specific to the city. Community circles in Delhi overlap tightly, and a family in Punjabi Bagh or Greater Kailash often knows the family three doors down and the family their cousin married into. A search that becomes common knowledge before it has gone anywhere costs a daughter or a son something real. So nothing about your search is public on Evara.

In practice that means the profile lives inside the platform and is not published to the open web. You can show a short version of it, with first name, age, city, religion and community, and keep your photographs and the rest of the detail closed until both sides have shown interest. Phone numbers and email addresses pass between two families after that mutual interest, not before it.

Areas we serve

South Delhi, from Greater Kailash, Defence Colony, and Hauz Khas to Vasant Vihar and the Lutyens bungalow zone, holds established families, professionals, and much of the city’s old money and diplomatic life. West Delhi, with Rajouri Garden, Punjabi Bagh, Tilak Nagar, and Janakpuri, is the heart of the Punjabi capital that grew out of Partition resettlement, with strong Hindu Punjabi and Sikh networks.

North Delhi runs from the old city and Civil Lines out to Model Town, Ashok Vihar, and Pitampura, where our office sits, mixing long-settled families with newer professional households. East Delhi and the trans-Yamuna areas, Preet Vihar, Mayur Vihar, and beyond, are younger and more mixed, home to many families who came to Delhi from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and elsewhere. And the old city itself, around Chandni Chowk, remains the base of trading families whose businesses and marriages have run through the same community for generations.

We serve families across all of it. Our office is in Pitampura in North Delhi, so families across the capital can meet us in person, and we arrange family meetings wherever suits both sides. Zone shapes the logistics of a meeting, never the care we bring to the match.

Why the city matches this way

Delhi is administered as the National Capital Territory, with New Delhi inside it as the capital of India, and it held about 16.8 million people at the 2011 Census. Almost none of that is one settled population. Shahjahanabad, the walled city Shah Jahan founded in the seventeenth century around Chandni Chowk, the Jama Masjid and the Red Fort, still holds trading families whose marriages have run inside the same community for generations. Lutyens and Baker laid out New Delhi to its south and it was inaugurated as the capital in 1931, and the households of that zone were assembled by service and office rather than by trade.

Then 1947 rewrote the city. Partition brought a large influx of Punjabi Hindu and Sikh refugees who resettled across Delhi, and the West Delhi colonies that grew out of that resettlement are part of why Punjabi is a second official language of Delhi today, alongside Urdu and Hindi, under the Delhi Official Language Act of 2000. Later arrivals from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan and the south filled the trans-Yamuna colonies and the outer ring. A great many families here are therefore two things at once: settled in the capital, and rooted in a home community somewhere else.

That is the practical reason a brief taken in this city is rarely only about this city. The Metro, one of the largest networks in the world by length, ties the territory to Gurugram, Noida, Faridabad and Ghaziabad, so a match one district away is an ordinary domestic arrangement rather than a move. Indira Gandhi International, among the busiest airports in the world by passenger traffic, does the same job for the families whose children are abroad. When we take a brief we establish which of those pulls is real for your family, and we search accordingly.

Checking and privacy

Verified profiles

Every profile verified before it goes live, and photos approved by a person

Discretion in close circles

Seen by Evara members, not the public

Community-aware matching

Within your community, or across

NCR-wide and beyond

Gurugram, Noida, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, or back home

A real office in the city

Meet us at our Pitampura office in North Delhi

What it costs

The difference between them is who does the choosing. On membership the matching is algorithmic and every profile is verified before it goes live, and a person approves its photos. On Select and Reserve a named person reads your family and picks every introduction herself.

Membership

₹999 a month, and nothing at all to join

Matches are chosen for you and a small set arrives each day. Every profile is verified before it goes live, and its photos are approved by a person. Nobody is assigned to your family. Lifetime membership is a single one-time payment with no renewals. 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 every membership term and lifetime

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.

A named relationship manager learns your family, chooses each introduction by hand, gives you her reasoning for it, and is with you at family meetings in Delhi NCR, and on video call across India. Select is the first of these services and Reserve is the senior service above it. Each is bought separately, from the other and from membership.

See Select, Reserve and Luxe

Lifetime membership is one payment that never renews, and it is priced on its own page. Select and Reserve are priced inclusive of GST, and each is bought on its own. Read the Payment Terms before you pay.

Joining is free, and so is the first conversation. Membership is ₹999 a month, and a dedicated matchmaker is a separate service. 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 Delhi 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.

Communities

Second marriages, later marriages and NRI searches

Particular searches

Matchmaking across Delhi NCR

Across the region

Neighbourhoods we serve in Delhi

Neighbourhoods

Anand Niketan, Ashok Vihar, Chhatarpur, Defence Colony, Friends Colony, Golf Links, Greater Kailash, Green Park, Hauz Khas, Jor Bagh, New Friends Colony, Panchsheel Park, Safdarjung Enclave, Shanti Niketan, Sundar Nagar, Vasant Vihar and West End.

The pages that hold the detail

Check it yourself

No cost, no card, and no obligation to take either route afterwards. If a form is not how your family does this, call us on +91 93555 66533 instead. The office is at Netaji Subhash Place, Pitampura, by appointment.